Hello all, below is my first draught of my Poker IQ test, I have had a couple of posts on this before.
First Post
First Posted Question
Basically, I need a way to determine the poker ability of participants that are going to take part in my dissertation on Visual Perception in online MTT poker. I have picked the following questions because I think they have quantifiable answers, if anyone would be willing to take this test and post their answers it would be much appreciated, I will post what I consider the answers tomorrow giving me time to make any adjustments from the consensus answers. If anyone can think of any good questions along this vain I could include that would be much appreciated (I want to get to about 20 questions), or anything I could add, or anyway I can edit the current questions in order to improve them. The current test is out of 21 marks, if anyone thinks the amount of marks available for each question is not right let me know, though I will post my reasoning on the marks with my answers tomorrow.
Thanks in advance.
Jon
Poker IQ Test Draught
1) The following is the order of hands according to their importance in Texas Hold’em, from the strongest hand, down to the weakest hand. There are however five notable exceptions from the list below.
Royal Flush
Straight Flush
Four of a kind
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Pair
High card
Please put the following five hands in order from strongest to weakest according to where they should be in the above list. (1 mark)
a) Flush
b) Full House
c) Two pair
d) Three of a kind
e) Straight
2) In a MTT tournament, how does the value of each individual chip that you win compare to the previous ones? (1 mark)
a) They are worth more
b) They are worth less
c) They are worth the same
3) Your starting cards are 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
Board: 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
a) You are confident that your opponent has an Ace, how many outs (an out is a specific card that could win you the hand) do you have? (1 mark)
b) Roughly what are the odds that you will hit one of these outs on the river (fraction or percentage)? (1 mark)
c) The pot is currently $80, your opponent goes all-in (no further betting) for $60, assuming money isn’t a worry and you were to make this call solely on the principle of positive expected value (+EV), or in other words, long term profit, would you call or fold for $60? Please explain your answer. (2 marks)
4) You enter a £75 buy-in MTT tournament. 96 people enter the tournament. The pay structure is as follows.
1st £2600
2nd £1500
3rd £800
4th £650
5th £500
6th £400
7th £300
8th £250
9th £200
10th £0
You are on the final table of the tournament, 10 people are left. The blinds are 400/800. You are sitting on the button (last position). There are 96,000 chips on the table, you only have 800 chips. There are 8 hands left before you will be forced all-in on the Big Blind (BB). The smallest stack after you has 2500 chips; he is currently on the BB.
a) The majority of people are playing tight, they are waiting for you to get knocked out so that they can ensure they reach the money, this is especially true of the player with 2500 chips. Please state in the following situations if you would call (all-in) for your last 800 or fold, and briefly say why.
i. You are dealt 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], there are three players in front of you who limp (call the blind). (1 mark)
ii. You are dealt K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], there is one player in front of you who limps (calls the blind). (1 mark)
iii. You are dealt 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], everyone has folded around to you. (1 mark)
iv. You are dealt A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], there is one player in front of you who limps (calls the blind). (1 mark)
b) In the above situations there has been a lot of aggressive and loose play from the other players, including the short stacks. They do not appear to be holding out for 9th place and the money, please state how you would play the hands in questions iii and iv given this new information. (2 marks)
5) As you are approaching the money (the Bubble) in a Multi Table Tournament (MTT), which of the following would you do and why? (2 marks)
a) Become tighter with my starting cards, and weaker with my betting.
b) Become tighter with my starting cards, and be more aggressive with my betting.
c) Become looser with my starting cards, and weaker with my betting.
d) Become looser with my starting cards, and be more aggressive with my betting.
e) No change to my game at all.
6) Roughly, what are the odds of a pocket pair versus two over cards all-in pre-flop? (Fraction or percentage) (1 mark)
E.g. 6[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] vs. Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
7) Your starting cards are K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
Board: K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
Three people see the flop; there is a lot of betting.
a) What hands could be beating you? List them. (1 marks)
b) The next card out is the 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], what new hands could now be beating you? (2 marks)
8) You are sitting down for the first hand in the WSOP $10,000 buy-in main event. There are 6000 entrants, and a prize pool of $60,000,000. The SB is 25 chips, the BB is 50 chips. Everyone on the table has 10,000 chips. Please say whether you would fold or call in the following examples.
a) Johnny Chan is sitting to your right (two times winner of the WSOP main event), you are sitting on the BB, he is sitting on the SB. There is a lot of raising in front of you, the bet is 1000 chips to Johnny Chan, he thinks about it for a while and then goes all-in for 10,000 chips. You look at your hand and see you are holding A [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. (1 mark)
b) The same situation as above, but you are holding K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. (1 mark)
c) You are on the BB with 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 6[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], you do not know the player who is on the SB, everyone folds to the SB and he goes all-in without looking at his cards. (1 mark)