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More Omaha
2008-07-10

You're playing in an heads-up pot-limit Omaha sit & go, in the fifth hand, and all previous hands have ended by folds to continuation bets on the flop.

You call your opponent's pot raise from the button with the marginal hand of 3 4 7 T.

The flop comes 5 6 K. You check, your opponent makes a continuation bet, and you check-raise to 120 total. Your opponent calls.

The turn is the 5 - what now?





Check-fold
The best move here is betting - you took the initiative on the flop by check-raising, and now that a scare card hit the turn, let's keep going.

This is actually a good card for you, despite that you may be drawing dead. Your opponent probably didn't have a set on the flop - a flush draw seems much more likely.

It doesn't really matter if you bet pot or half pot, it depends more on how you plan to play later on. If you're raised, you have an easy fold. The only hard decision will arise if you're called.

I don't really like check-calling here, but then again, that gives you a free card... you can assume, however, that you won't face a bluff raise, so if you do call a bet, there's a big risk of hitting the river and having to make a very hard decision. Plus, the free card will go to flush draws as well.

I actually prefer check-folding to that, even though you have a good draw. After all, you might be drawing dead. If you don't like to bluff, this is an alternative - but then again, if you don't like to bluff you probably shouldn't be playing heads-up matches.

Check-call
The best move here is betting - you took the initiative on the flop by check-raising, and now that a scare card hit the turn, let's keep going.

This is actually a good card for you, despite that you may be drawing dead. Your opponent probably didn't have a set on the flop - a flush draw seems much more likely.

It doesn't really matter if you bet pot or half pot, it depends more on how you plan to play later on. If you're raised, you have an easy fold. The only hard decision will arise if you're called.

I don't really like check-calling here, but then again, that gives you a free card... you can assume, however, that you won't face a bluff raise, so if you do call a bet, there's a big risk of hitting the river and having to make a very hard decision. Plus, the free card will go to flush draws as well.

I actually prefer check-folding to that, even though you have a good draw. After all, you might be drawing dead. If you don't like to bluff, this is an alternative - but then again, if you don't like to bluff you probably shouldn't be playing heads-up matches.

Check-raise
The best move here is betting - you took the initiative on the flop by check-raising, and now that a scare card hit the turn, let's keep going.

This is actually a good card for you, despite that you may be drawing dead. Your opponent probably didn't have a set on the flop - a flush draw seems much more likely.

It doesn't really matter if you bet pot or half pot, it depends more on how you plan to play later on. If you're raised, you have an easy fold. The only hard decision will arise if you're called.

I don't really like check-calling here, but then again, that gives you a free card... you can assume, however, that you won't face a bluff raise, so if you do call a bet, there's a big risk of hitting the river and having to make a very hard decision. Plus, the free card will go to flush draws as well.

I actually prefer check-folding to that, even though you have a good draw. After all, you might be drawing dead. If you don't like to bluff, this is an alternative - but then again, if you don't like to bluff you probably shouldn't be playing heads-up matches.

Bet 150 (correct)
The best move here is betting - you took the initiative on the flop by check-raising, and now that a scare card hit the turn, let's keep going.

This is actually a good card for you, despite that you may be drawing dead. Your opponent probably didn't have a set on the flop - a flush draw seems much more likely.

It doesn't really matter if you bet pot or half pot, it depends more on how you plan to play later on. If you're raised, you have an easy fold. The only hard decision will arise if you're called.

I don't really like check-calling here, but then again, that gives you a free card... you can assume, however, that you won't face a bluff raise, so if you do call a bet, there's a big risk of hitting the river and having to make a very hard decision. Plus, the free card will go to flush draws as well.

I actually prefer check-folding to that, even though you have a good draw. After all, you might be drawing dead. If you don't like to bluff, this is an alternative - but then again, if you don't like to bluff you probably shouldn't be playing heads-up matches.

Bet 360 (correct)
The best move here is betting - you took the initiative on the flop by check-raising, and now that a scare card hit the turn, let's keep going.

This is actually a good card for you, despite that you may be drawing dead. Your opponent probably didn't have a set on the flop - a flush draw seems much more likely.

It doesn't really matter if you bet pot or half pot, it depends more on how you plan to play later on. If you're raised, you have an easy fold. The only hard decision will arise if you're called.

I don't really like check-calling here, but then again, that gives you a free card... you can assume, however, that you won't face a bluff raise, so if you do call a bet, there's a big risk of hitting the river and having to make a very hard decision. Plus, the free card will go to flush draws as well.

I actually prefer check-folding to that, even though you have a good draw. After all, you might be drawing dead. If you don't like to bluff, this is an alternative - but then again, if you don't like to bluff you probably shouldn't be playing heads-up matches.



Result:

Check-fold 29%
Check-call 15%
Check-raise 15%
Bet 150 24%
Bet 360 18%

Totally 842 vote(s)