Four Streets, Two Problems Left

After having tested your preflop game the last time, today we will go one step further. How would you play on this (pretty good) flop?

In our hand we decided to call preflop and got lucky on the flop: we flopped the nut straight and a flush draw. Now we check to our opponent and he pleases us with a continuation bet. That leads us to the...

Question of the day: checkraise or check/call? 

With the nuts you have two pleasant alternatives and just have to think about which option gets you the most money.

Do you decide in favour of Miss Checkraise?...

Miss Checkraise: "The hands in your opponent's range argue for a checkraise, since there are a lot of hands he will not fold: flush draws, two pairs, sets and probably a top pair with Ax."

But before punishing your opponent with a checkraise you should have a look at the alternative option."

... or is Miss Call your favourite?

Miss Call: "Check/call is alluring as well: most of the time you don't have a strong hand on this board since you're nearly always 3-betting JJ, KK, AA and AK preflop. This means that your opponent should play very aggressively and maybe even overbet hands like T9s on the turn to make you fold your weaker holdings. There are also not many reasons for him not to bet his costly second-best hands (AJ, AK, KK, AA). The worst case would happen if your opponent checked the turn behind with hands like KQ or A5s. He probably would have called these hands to a checkraise and a bet on the turn..."

If you're looking for more content on this topic, you should start to think about how you play your entire range postflop and check out our articles about the perfect game plan.

Now it's on you to decide: do you want to punish your opponent by checkraising the flop or make him believe his hand is good by just check/calling? Unfortunately, we don't have a 'Miss Click' today so folding is not an option. Tell us what you think in the comments section!