Puzzles
#17
Board Reading
Beginner
40bb effective

Name the turn card

One flop, three possible turns, and no hand to play. Before any decision on the turn there is a reading — the book gives you six groups to make it with, and this puzzle only asks you to make it.

  1. Turn

Hand info

Seats
BB vs UTG
Street
Turn
Pot
5.5 bb
Effective stack
37.5 bb

Single raised pot, blinds 0.5 / 1, no ante. The flop checked through. Your cards stay face down all the way through — nothing here asks what you hold.

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

TURN · 37.5BB EFFECTIVE

TURN · FIRST TO ACT

6-max table. Hero is BB with 37.5 big blinds effective. TURN: 9h, 8h, 4d, 9s. TURN · FIRST TO ACT.

Hand history

Pre-flop

  • UTGRaises to 2.5 bb
  • BBCalls 1.5 bb

Flop

  • 9♥ 8♥ 4♦ — pot 5.5 bb
  • BBChecks
  • UTGChecks

Turn

  • 9♠ — pot 5.5 bb

UTG opened, you called from the big blind, and the flop 9♥ 8♥ 4♦ checked through. The turn is the 9♠. Do not decide anything yet — just say what this card did to the board.

Which group does the 9♠ belong to?