Puzzles
#08
C-bet Sizing
Advanced
40bb effective

A range advantage that cannot bet big

You hold the range advantage on this flop and the book wants you betting at a high frequency. It also wants you betting the minimum. Those two sentences are not in tension — they are two different decisions.

  1. Flop

Hand info

Seats
UTG vs BB
Street
Flop
Pot
5.5 bb
Effective stack
37.5 bb
To call
Nothing — you may check

MTT, single raised pot, no ante. Blinds 0.5 / 1.

Pot5.5 BB
HERO ·UTG
37.5 BB
HJ
FOLD
CO
FOLD
D
BTN
FOLD
SB
FOLD
BB
CHECK35 BB behind

FLOP · 37.5BB EFFECTIVE

FLOP · BB CHECKS

6-max table. Hero is UTG with 37.5 big blinds effective. FLOP: Qh, Jh, Th. FLOP · BB CHECKS. Hero holds As and Qd.

Hand history

Pre-flop

  • UTGRaises to 2.5 bb
  • HJFolds
  • COFolds
  • BTNFolds
  • SBFolds
  • BBCalls 1.5 bb

Flop

  • Q♥ J♥ T♥ — pot 5.5 bb
  • BBChecks

You opened to 2.5bb from under the gun and only the big blind called. The flop is Q♥ J♥ T♥ — one suit, and every straight is already out there. You hold A♠Q♦: top pair, top kicker, with a gutshot to the Broadway straight and no heart. The big blind checks. The pot is 5.5bb and you have 37.5bb behind.

What is your action?