Are you ever leading with your remaining stack on the turn OOP here?

Are you ever leading with your remaining stack on the turn OOP here?

Hero: AJss on the bb. UTG raises to 35. Folds to hero who raises to 90. Villain calls.

Flop: 9s6d5d. 180 in the pot.

Hero checks, villain bets 75. Hero calls

Turn: 9s6d5d. 3s. 350 in the pot

Hero? Hero has 330 left.

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28 September 2025 at 08:00 PM
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AJs should be the very bottom of your 3bet range in the BB. Against a 7x UTG open without a read, just fold pre.

Fold > raise > call flop. Why call with a back door flush?

Don’t make a turn bluff unless you have a read on V. Just check and hope for a free card


I would fold pre. One problem you have here is that if you want to generate more indifference to calling you're probably going to have to make it more like $120 and I'm not looking to get committed on any flop I have the slightest peice of with AJs, we don't have AKs.

Flop, I guess we have the range advantage since we're uncapped. I would probably bet/fold flop and look to shove on J Q K and any and check / call A. That lets us continue on nearly half the deck OTT.


Fold pre

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With $330 left into $350, you’re pot committed. Leading all in on the turn is fine. Checking again risks letting V control the action.


Live poker is already an exercise in patience, but it would become truly unbearable for me if I had to fold AJs in a spot like this. So I'm calling here and defending my big blind.

When you 3bet utg from the bb, you basically rep QQ+ or maybe even KK+, so with this run-out, I'd probably end up c-betting the flop and shoving the turn (and losing my stack most likely), but I'd never 3bet here in the first place (against unknowns), so luckily I wouldn’t be in this position in the first place, because I don’t think it's a great position to be in.


Fold pre to 7x. Bet flop. What are you representing betting turn?

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Just a strange way to play a hand. When you act first every street it’s usually not the time to bloat the pot. Then, after taking the initiative, you make a passive check on the flop. Not sure what kinda signal you meant to send.

You call the flop with nothing and turn a spade draw. So the question is can you get villain to fold? Some image, playing styles would help but V ‘called’ a 3bet pre - (by definition, a stronger hand than one would bet) - then took the initiative on the flop when you let it go.

Villain has some kind of made hand. He’s likely not folding 2pair+ / so the question becomes will he fold a pocket pair (TT - AA) and give you credit? With no reads, it’s a gamble.

It’s funny, but if you had bet $75 on the flop & villain had called - then I would 100% shove the spade draw on the turn.


Imo it's extremely important to know general sizing tendencies for RFI here. There are a lot of live players who will open much larger with their best hands. Against those people, this preflop action is extremely minus EV. (It's probably pretty minus EV in general, I agree that folding here is the default play, but nonetheless, it makes a huge difference whether this sizing is a tell or not.) I would worry more about this and your lack of even thinking about it(?) than anything post-flop.

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