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  | Game: No-Limit Texas Hold'em | Position: Middle
| Blinds: $10/$20
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You're raising three times the big blind before the flop and get two players with you, including the player on the button. Flop comes and deals Ac-Js-Ts. First player raises by $20 and you decide to raise to $60. One player folds, button goes all-in. You have $620 left, a call costs you $250. What do you do?
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| $5/$10 No-Limit Texas Hold’em, cash game, 77 in big blind | 21st December, 2005 |
  | Game: No Limit Hold'em, cash game | Position: Big Blind
| Blinds: $5/$10
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You have three players with you on the flop (7-8-9 off suit), with no bets. No player bets, you raise and get called by one player. Turn card is 5. Player bets $10. What will you do?
| | Raise: This is a very difficult situation. Because there is no pre-flop raise, you cannot know for sure what a player holds but you can be pretty sure that it's not two high cards.
On the turn card, you have only one player with you who called your post-flop raise. Because of this, you can naturally assume that the player has a) an open straight draw, b) a straight or c) a pair of eights or nines. To rule out the first and last option, a re-raise should do the trick since the player wouldn't want to risk money on just the river card.
Call is not an option since you would trigger your opponent into thinking that you have an average hand. By raising, you re-assure that your hand is truly the best one on the table.
If you get re-raised, you should fold, knowing that your opponent is taking a risk you cannot afford, or the possibility of milking hands (in this case, straight).
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| Call (39%) |  | | Fold (9%) | | | Raise (52%) | |
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