Fourth street - choosing a girlfriend
New street, new problems. We're facing another hard decision on the turn and our girlfriends tear us apart, suggesting different plays. Whose line is sexier?
| Hand history |
| UTG+2: 115 bb MP1: 100 bb MP2: 46 bb CO: 65 bb Hero (BTN): 258 bb SB: 45 bb BB: 258 bb UTG: 145 bb UTG+1: 100 bb Preflop: Hero Ñ A  J 6 folds, Hero raises to 2 bb, 1 fold, BB 3-bets to 8 bb, Hero calls 6 bb Flop: (16,5 bb) A Turn: (16,5 bb) A |
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On the flop we listened to Frank Dux and checked back. Our goal was to keep our opponent's range wide and avoid a possible check/raise.
A jack spikes on the turn and improves our hand to a full house. Our opponent checks again and we can't wait any longer. We put in a pretty sizeable bet (12 bb - 2/3 pot), but our opponent has a surprise in store and check/raises 2.5x.
What do we do now?
Much like on the flop we are torn between two lines. However, this time it's not professional fighters advising us, but two attractive cheerleaders.
One of them wants us to go full throttle on the turn, the other is convinced that composure should rule.
Whose advice will you take?
Question of the day: call or re-raise?
We will let the girls remain anonymous by calling them Miss Re-raise and Miss Call.
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Miss Re-raise: "Put in another raise, we have his range crushed!"
Miss Re-raise is very shrewd. She's calculated that the combinations our opponent is likely to continue with facing a re-raise here actually include more worse hands (JJ, QQ) than better hands (AQ).
Plus, who knows, our opponent may even over play AK and call our re-raise.
With all that in mind, Miss Re-raise thinks that we have no choice but to continue inflating the size of the pot, as we want the opportunity to get all of our opponent's deep stack.
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Miss Call: "Composure is key! Don't isolate yourself against better hands!"
Miss Call thinks that further aggression will only isolate us against the hands that beat us.
A re-raise knocks out all our opponent's bluffs and semi-bluffs, plus any Ax hands he has without a full house - even JJ will think twice because it beats nothing in our range other than pure bluffs.
By opting to call this check/raise we give our opponent a chance to bet on the river with a wider range, thus increasing our value.
Plus, we should be careful constructing our game plan - if our opponent pushes against a re-raise, it will be very hard for us to fold.
Now it's your turn. Will you choose Miss Re-raise or Miss Call? Let us know!
