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Playing medium pair in a 4 way plot

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So this hand has been bothering me a little bit. With 3 people entering the pot before me I was finding it difficult to think whether or not my 10s would be good. Being in the small blind and calling made it feel a little tricker because the big blind could have easily squeezed and pushed us all out of the pot. So, rightly or wrongly I called. BTN: 181.5 BB (VPIP: 30.77, PFR: 16.67, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 14) Hero (SB): 131 BB BB: 110.5 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 1) UTG: 134.5 BB MP: 202.5 BB (VPIP: 14.29, PFR: 14.29, 3Bet Preflop: 20.00, Hands: 7) CO: 110 BB (VPIP: 44.44, PFR: 22.22, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 9) Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has T:club: T:spade: UTG raises to 4 BB , fold , CO calls 4 BB, BTN calls 4 BB, Hero calls 3.5 BB, fold Flop: (17 BB, 4 players) 8:heart: 3:spade: 2:spade: With this flop and so many callers it was hard to think what I could do first off so the check ...

Should you bet the flop with your pocket queens?

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Raising pre-flop with pocket queens is a given. When the limper calls your raise what do you know about his range? should you bet the flop when a king hits the flop? how would you play this hand  

I've got Kings so who is calling my bets?

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2c/5c microstakes 6max. The villain has VP17, PF 8 but AS 100. Up to now he has folded to all 3 bets so if he is calling this one what could his range be?  1010+? AQs? AKs?  Would he 4bet with KK, AA? When the flop gives the hero top set on a monotone board what could the villain be calling with?

Big slick meets its arch enemy

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1c/2c microstakes 6max. The villian (VP 17, PF 0) gets aggressive on the flop.  Big slick can lose your stack!

Pocket Kings against a caller

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1c/2c 6max. After 64 hands villian has VP22, PF 12, 3Bet 4. His aggression factors are: 5/2/5.  What can we expect from his call of our early position raise that forces him to play the hand out of position?

Playing Paired Kings - Guess what UTG raiser has...

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We love starting with a pair of Kings. But when the villian is happy to carry on calling bets with 2 Queens on the board should we be afraid that he has one of the other 2?  What is in his range: AA, KK, QQ, AK, AQ, possibly other pairs?  Has he hit a full house with his pair of 7s?

Play with Kings

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Microstakes 1c/2c 6max Fast poker. 7 hands on villian 8 who has figures of VP 43, PF 29, 3Bet 25%.  Villian 5 on just 8 hands has VP 63, PF 0, 3Bet 0. The shove from the villian smells like a flush draw...but could it be a set?

Playing QQ in the Small Blind

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Pair of Queens sees an Ace on the Flop

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6Max microstakes.  Only 3 hands on the villian who has VP 33, PF 33, AS 100, F3 100.  His call to the preflop raise puts our hero out of position. When the flop comes with an Ace does the check followed by a bet on the turn tell the whole story?

Pocket Aces hits a flush and takes the stack

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Microstakes Pair of Kings in the Small Blind

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