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PokerStars announces dates for Caribbean...
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Omaha: Outs, Anti-Outs, True Outs and...
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Strategy Snapshot: Terror Twilight
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Question of the Day Friday, Aug 8, 2008
No-Limit Hold'em
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Flop$29
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Your Hand $250
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1st $240
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2nd $230
- Cut-off $300
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Button $200
$12
- Small blind $170
Background:
This hand in your aggressive online six-max game folds around to the button, who jacks it to $8. Your read on the button is that he is a winning TAG who will open the button fairly light. He continuation bets fairly frequently but does not second-barrel too often without a hand or a strong draw. The small blind folds and you elect to flat-call out of the big blind. The flop comes T
4
6
. You check and he bets out $12.
Options:
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