Daily Poker Quiz: Archive

Mike the Mouth #2
2008-07-03

Due to RailJoe screwing up the order of stacked questions, here's the continued Mike Matusow question from two days ago.

You're on the big blind playing "High Stakes Poker" with Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson, and some other famous guys.

Phil Laak raises to $1,700 and you call with Q 9.

The flop is J T 4, so you get an open-ended straight draw and a flush draw. You have $80,000 in your stack, about the same as Phil, and you decide to bet $4,000. Phil thinks for but a split second before calling.

On the turn comes the 2. Now what?





Check-fold (correct)
Your bluff got shot down. The brave yet maybe reckless will fire off another barrel. The careful player checks... Don't fold automatically if your opponent bets - it's a question of pot odds and what you think your opponent has - but it's mostly the correct decision here.

Check-call
Your bluff got shot down. The brave yet maybe reckless will fire off another barrel. The careful player checks... Don't fold automatically if your opponent bets - it's a question of pot odds and what you think your opponent has - but it's mostly the correct decision here.

Check-raise
At least you're very aggressive, I must give you that.

Bet $10,000
You're being aggressive, firing off a second barrel - it might be correct, but probably not so.

Note though that you've invested the same amount of money as if you'd check-raised on the flop now, but the check-raise bluff has a much bigger chance of succeeding against good opponents.



Result:

Check-fold 20%
Check-call 15%
Check-raise 14%
Bet $10,000 51%

Totally 908 vote(s)