Can you Ace my quiz?

[Matt Flynn]

interesting that you choose that AQo hand (#3). ones very close to it appear in the new Sklansky / Miller no limit book and in the upcoming Small Stakes No Limit, with quite different approaches.

[BukNaked36]

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I fold/call/raise/call. I don't like reraising the last one because you're out of position. Unless you think he'll fold to a c-bet on an A high flop, I'd rather smooth call and try to spike my set. I don't like calling raises in the BB with AQo because it's so hard to know where you are, and you're basically gearing up to play a big pot with a "good" hand OOP.

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So you're hoping to take down hand 3 preflop with your raise? Otherwise you are creating the big pot you say you don't want to play OOP.

[vulturesrow]

Matt,

I was going to send you a PM but I'll make my plea a public one. Please please post more here and encourage your co-author to do the same! That is all. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] I seriously wish more of the higher stakes posters would "slum" from time to time in here. We have a lot of good posters here and most SSNL situations are fairly easy to pick apart but it would be great to see their perspective on hands.

[Pokey]

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Fold
Call
Call
Call


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Exactly what I would have said.

I hate building a pot preflop against a raiser when I'll be heads-up and OOP postflop. Better to see a (relatively) inexpensive flop with a hand that's got tons of potential, and then either check/fold or float if I miss (depending on my opponent's tendencies) or check/call or check/raise the flop if I hit (again depending on my specific opponent).

If we include a c-bet as a given, then we're getting about 5-to-1 implied odds on a call here, with potential for much more if the flop hits our opponent but hits us harder. That's worth a bit of a chase.

Note: I fold hand #1 because it's a coinflip at best and a severely dominated hand at worst. We're likely to win very little if we're ahead but lose a great deal if we're behind, and we won't know for sure until the showdown.

[BalugaWhale]

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fold/call/raise for 1, 2 and 3.

Final one call or reraise are both OK.

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[BukNaked36]

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fold/call/raise for 1, 2 and 3.

Final one call or reraise are both OK.

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Help a brother out, what's the thought behind the raise on hand 3?

[jfish]

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Fold
Call
Call
Call

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[Isura]

1 - fold
2 - call
3 - call or reraise (60/40)
4 - call or reraise (80/20)
5 -

[Pokey]

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1 - fold
2 - call
3 - call or reraise (60/40)
4 - call or reraise (80/20)
5 -
6 - <font color="blue">profit!</font>

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FYP.

[BalugaWhale]

buk- if we call, we are kinda awkward, if we raise, he's kinda awkward on the flop. we're ahead of his range, and having that initiative will help us take the pot down. Also, it keeps him from stealing so much. I've started reraising out of the blinds because i hate it so much when people do it to me.