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www.pkr.com – With a hand of (6d,7d) you have seen a flop of (Ad,4c,5c). Your single opponent min raises, and you decide to flat call. Next off is exactly what you want to see, the (3d). Having completed your straight and given yourself a flush draw too, how do you react when faced with another min raise?

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Considering your opponent hasn’t commited too much to the pot yet, it would be good to try and build the pot in some way, but then again, you do not want to give away the true strength of your hand. If you decide to flat call, you might be raised again on the river, thus letting your opponent build the pot for you, but this holds it’s own dangers too. It’s possible your opponent is min raising with four clubs, not commiting too much, but hoping to get some chips into the middle in case a club hits. In this case, you could end up losing a big pot by giving a free river.

There is also an outside chance that your opponent has some sort of hand containing two bigger diamonds, but then even the board pairing could spell disaster for you too if your opponent has a set or two pair. For this reason, I would feel compelled to reraise when the straight hits, although I wouldn’t make the bet all that big. It is still unlikely that you will lose the pot at this point, so you cannot blame yourself for not moving all in to potect your hand if the worst does happen.

Reraising at least a little, does give you the chance to win the pot outright though, as well as building a bigger pot. Also in your opponents mind, your reraise does not entirely give away your hand, because this is the sort of turn card a player could feasibly use to represent a hand. www.pkr.com

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