Puzzles
#19
Turn Play
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40bb effective

The check-raise that is already all-in

You check the turn, UTG barrels a second time, and the raise available to you is your entire stack. This puzzle is about why that is not a choice — and why more than 40% of the range facing this bet simply folds.

  1. Turn

Hand info

Seats
BB vs UTG
Street
Turn
Pot
21.5 bb
Effective stack
33.8 bb
Villain bet
8.6 bb
To call
8.6 bb

Single raised pot, no ante. Blinds 0.5 / 1. The flop and turn action so far is history, not your decision.

Pot21.5 BB
HERO ·BB
CHECK31.3 BB behind
8.6
UTG
BET22.7 BB behind
HJ
FOLD
CO
FOLD
D
BTN
FOLD
SB
FOLD

TURN · 33.8BB EFFECTIVE

TURN · BB CHECKS · UTG BETS 8.6BB

6-max table. Hero is BB with 33.8 big blinds effective. TURN: 9h, 8h, 4d, 2d. TURN · BB CHECKS · UTG BETS 8.6BB. Hero holds Jh and Th.

Hand history

Pre-flop

  • UTGRaises to 2.5 bb
  • BBCalls 1.5 bb

Flop

  • 9♥ 8♥ 4♦ — pot 5.5 bb
  • BBChecks
  • UTGBets 3.7 bb (2/3 pot)
  • BBCalls 3.7 bb

Turn

  • 2♦ — pot 12.9 bb
  • BBChecks
  • UTGBets 8.6 bb (2/3 pot)

You hold J♥ T♥ — a heart flush draw plus an open-ended straight draw, with a queen or a seven making your straight. You checked the flop and called; the turn is the 2♦, a brick that pairs nothing and completes nothing. You checked again, and UTG has fired a second barrel of 8.6bb into 12.9bb. The pot is 21.5bb, it costs 8.6bb to continue, and you have 33.8bb behind.

You face the second barrel. What do you do?