Can you Ace my quiz?

[AlienBoy]

GRUNCH

These are my initial thoughts before reading other answers -


Hand 1) AQo is a pretty good hand in position but here you're behind most of his range. You're either in a race, or dominated. Still, if he's raising from UTG like this, I'd not put him on AA or KK, so the hand could be playable, but we'd have to be aggressive to make it worth while - that is, we're behind everything and we have to play poker. You could re-raise here to 12 and fold to a big re-raise but that might be spewing against a strong player, or just call, which I think is weak. I don't like folding a hand like this heads up to such a small raise, and since calling is weak, I think we need to re-raise. THis is a tough one and I may be spewing here too often.

Hand 2) Call for set value.

Hand 3) Unlike hand one, this is a more clear re-raise - while we're still OOP, we beat much of his range right out of the starting gate.

Hand 4) Regardless, 33 is a "set value" hand, though here it could be okay to semi-bluff re-steal - you're actually ahead of some of his range, so a re-steal here is probably right.


--- Now I'm going to see what everyone else said and how far off I am!

AB


Edit: Eh, looks like I was way off on hand one...

[gimmetheloot]

fold call raise raise