Puzzles
#02
Turn Play
Advanced
40bb effective

The turn card you were waiting for

A full hand on the board the book works through in most depth. You play a passive flop on purpose, then the single best card in the deck arrives — and the plan you deferred becomes the plan you execute.

  1. Pre-flop
  2. Flop
  3. Turn
  4. River

Hand info

Seats
BB vs UTG
Street
Pre-flop
Pot
4 bb
Effective stack
40 bb
Villain raised to
2.5 bb
You already in
1 bb
To call
1.5 bb

Single raised pot, no ante. Blinds 0.5 / 1.

Pot4 BB
1
HERO ·BB
40 BB
2.5
UTG
RAISE37.5 BB behind
HJ
FOLD
CO
FOLD
D
BTN
FOLD
0.5
SB
FOLD

PREFLOP · 40BB EFFECTIVE

UTG OPEN

6-max table. Hero is BB with 40 big blinds effective. UTG OPEN. Hero holds 7s and 6s.

Hand history

Pre-flop

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

UTG opens to 2.5bb and everyone folds to you. You are in the big blind with 40bb, already in for your 1bb blind, so 1.5bb more to call.

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