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2 pair facing a check-raise
Early in a live tournament. Blinds 15/30. Average stack is 1000, I have 1650, the BB has 800. I limp in MP with AJo. I mix up this hand with calling a raising, mostly raising. All fold to BB, who so far seems pretty tight.
Pot is 75. Flop is rainbow AQJ. BB checks, I bet 80, BB check-raises 150 more. What now? |
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Re: 2 pair facing a check-raise
Call and get it in on the turn. He doesn't have AQ, AA, QQ, JJ IMO, those are all raises preflop. So, you're afraid of precisely K10. Hopefully he has a weak A that he's about to overplay for all his chips.
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Re: 2 pair facing a check-raise
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Call and get it in on the turn. He doesn't have AQ, AA, QQ, JJ IMO, those are all raises preflop. So, you're afraid of precisely K10. Hopefully he has a weak A that he's about to overplay for all his chips. [/ QUOTE ] Agreed. Also, I doubt he'd check-raise the nut straight on a flop with no flush draws. If he has any sense, he'd call and check-raise the turn. Even if he has it, you have outs. |
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Re: 2 pair facing a check-raise
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Agreed. Also, I doubt he'd check-raise the nut straight on a flop with no flush draws. If he has any sense, he'd call and check-raise the turn. [/ QUOTE ] I play my Broadway straights far stronger than that, mostly because Party's full of people that can't fold 2 pair or even lone aces. You're ahead of QJ and Ax and behind (the occasional) AQ and KT. Ax won't bet all that strongly on later streets, though. I want to see a showdown as cheap as possible (unless, of course, he checks the turn or river) and may even fold on a later street if he doesn't let me do it. Edit: Wait, live tournament and you have him outchipped that much? Forget everything I just said. |
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Re: 2 pair facing a check-raise
To elaborate on what I said earlier, think about the difference between AJ and a (misclicked) limped AK here.
With the AK, you're behind exactly 2 more hands (AJ and QJ), but have a lot of redraws against both. You also have 7 outs to the nuts against any given hand. And yet, most people don't play AK the same way as AJ here. Admittedly, the chance of QJ makes a big difference, but I still think that's a relatively significant mistake. |
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