Suckout King
04-04-2006, 09:36 AM
Every week or so I will post up (or get someone else to post up) 3-5 hand quizzes covering a range of games and forms of poker. Anyway highlight the blank spaces below the questions to see my answers.
Question one
You hold As4s and call a raise to 50 from Jonnie early on in a tournament where everyone has 1500 chips. The buy in was 10$+1 and there are 200 people in the tournament.
Flop comes Kh3h10s
There is 130 in the pot and Jonnie bets 200 chips. Do you:
a) call
b) fold
c) re-raise?
Answer b) fold – you don’t have simple pot odds if you need a flush to win the hand as you will be less than 20% likely to get a flush on the turn. Even after implied odds and other factors you will probably want to develop some reads on Jonnie before you call in this sort of situation. If you knew his style of play you might be able to tell whether or not you will get a big pay day should a flush come but without sufficient reads this is a clear fold.
Question 2
You are playing Omaha High low Pot limit tournament 10$ buy in and hold the second best low hand and no high. The pot holds 20% of your current chip stack and on the river the other player left in the pot does a maximum raise should you
a) fold
b) call
c) re-raise?
Answer probably a). PLO 8/b is a nut game – you want to play the nuts, hands cheaply that could give you the nuts and little else. Sometimes you have to defend yourself though and if people see you calling a big bet without the nuts it could put you in good stead for future hands. You may well be in a split pot with him getting the high and you the low. If that is the case all you are getting is a 10% increase in chips. If he has a better low however you will lose 20%.
Question 3
You hold ak suited and the played before you first hand in a 10$ 1 table sng goes all in under the gun. Do you call?
Answer –generally no. In 10$ games you don’t get too many people going all in first hand with aqs, aqos or aj etc so it is quite likely that you will actually be facing pairs in which case you will be slightly behind. There is also the possibility that your opponent has aa or kk which you really don’t want to face. Finally you will be risking 8 players behind you calling with a pocket pair (particularly aa and kk). Calling is not terrible as at these low stakes you will often find the person who went all in has nothing and is just throwing money away. Still even if that is the case then you are in the perfect position to take advantage of this in future hands.
Question one
You hold As4s and call a raise to 50 from Jonnie early on in a tournament where everyone has 1500 chips. The buy in was 10$+1 and there are 200 people in the tournament.
Flop comes Kh3h10s
There is 130 in the pot and Jonnie bets 200 chips. Do you:
a) call
b) fold
c) re-raise?
Answer b) fold – you don’t have simple pot odds if you need a flush to win the hand as you will be less than 20% likely to get a flush on the turn. Even after implied odds and other factors you will probably want to develop some reads on Jonnie before you call in this sort of situation. If you knew his style of play you might be able to tell whether or not you will get a big pay day should a flush come but without sufficient reads this is a clear fold.
Question 2
You are playing Omaha High low Pot limit tournament 10$ buy in and hold the second best low hand and no high. The pot holds 20% of your current chip stack and on the river the other player left in the pot does a maximum raise should you
a) fold
b) call
c) re-raise?
Answer probably a). PLO 8/b is a nut game – you want to play the nuts, hands cheaply that could give you the nuts and little else. Sometimes you have to defend yourself though and if people see you calling a big bet without the nuts it could put you in good stead for future hands. You may well be in a split pot with him getting the high and you the low. If that is the case all you are getting is a 10% increase in chips. If he has a better low however you will lose 20%.
Question 3
You hold ak suited and the played before you first hand in a 10$ 1 table sng goes all in under the gun. Do you call?
Answer –generally no. In 10$ games you don’t get too many people going all in first hand with aqs, aqos or aj etc so it is quite likely that you will actually be facing pairs in which case you will be slightly behind. There is also the possibility that your opponent has aa or kk which you really don’t want to face. Finally you will be risking 8 players behind you calling with a pocket pair (particularly aa and kk). Calling is not terrible as at these low stakes you will often find the person who went all in has nothing and is just throwing money away. Still even if that is the case then you are in the perfect position to take advantage of this in future hands.