[ajmargarine]

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Thanks for playing along. Comments welcome. Answers are rated on a scale of 0-10, 0 being donkorific, 5 being average, 10 being 42it-ous. (ratings in parenthesis).

Question # 1 --

(3) complete - Inferior IMO
(8) raise <=$4 - A good plan for the hand would be to raise pre-flop, and continue with a bet on most flops and hopefully take it down right there. If you hit a set, so much the better.
(7) raise >$4 - I suppose you can make a case for $5, probably not much more though.

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Question # 2 --

(0) Fold - easily within 5/10 guide for pp's so don't fold.
(10) Call - call, flop a set, win a nice pot.
(1) Raise - Pissing contests OOP are -EV.

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Question # 3 --

(4) lead - I like this least. If he calls, where are we? and what do we do on the turn?
(7) c/r - snaps off continuation bets. If he calls, we have to be done with the hand.
(6) c/c - lets him know we've got something. If it's a continuation bet, it usually shuts him down and a lead on the turn will pick up the pot. Unless the turn card hits him, in which case we lose a bit more than we should.
(6) c/f - no set, no bet.

Do we even want to contest this pot? Dry flop that almost surely missed villian, unless he holds a pp. Kind of the crux of this quiz. Contest this pot, or not?

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Question # 4 --

(3) Check
(6) <$7
(7) $7-$11
(6) $>11

I like a bet here. The 5 is a good card for us. It's a value bet against overcards like KQ or AJ. And, it could fold out some hands that beat us like 44, 77, 3x or maybe even 9x if he believes we have a 5. A moderate sized bet is best, IMO.

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Question # 5 --

(10) Check - He's got something and we are beat. Putting anything more in the pot at this point is chip spewing.
(0) < 2/3 pot bet - Easy call for villian.
(2) > 2/3 pot bet - Hard for him to call a push, but EV of that should be negative longterm.

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Question # 6 --

(0) 8% - Nope.
(10) 12% - This is correct. You flop a set just under 12% of the time.
(0) 15% - Consider getting these basic percentages down pat.
(0) 19% - If you are around to see the entire 5 card board, you end up with a set 19% of the time.

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Hand results: Hero checked the river. Villian checked behind. Villian held TT and won the pot. Thanks for playing along. Comments welcome.