Archive for the 'Good Poker' Category

Both opponents check to you again

July 21 2009

4 Both opponents check to you again, and you are sitting there with basically nothing. What is your play? A. Bet B. Check Many players would reason here that they couldn’t win this hand by checking, and they would be right. But the fact is that you couldn’t win this hand by betting either. You…

The turn card is the 24, giving you a flush draw

July 21 2009

3 The turn card is the 24, giving you a flush draw. Both blinds check to you. What is your play? A. Bet B. Check In this instance it is prudent to check the hand back, as your continuation bet was called by both players and there are no possible draws out there except an…

The flop comes KV-96-3+

July 20 2009

2 The flop comes KV-96-3+ and both blinds check to you. What is your play? A. Bet B. check There are two cards in the playing zone of hands that either get played more often or create some kind of draw, and those cards are the king and the nine. As the preflop raiser, you…

How Good Is Your Poker?

July 20 2009

STARTING THIS MONTH I would like to add a slightly different flavour to our monthly quiz. So far we have covered mostly limit hold’em, but from here on I would like to test you on other forms of poker, and this will include actual hands I have played on my sponsor’s site, Sportsbook Poker. The…