This week’s educational poker hand involves a not uncommon situation — picking up pocket jacks and having to negotiate postflop with an overcard on the board.
The hand came early during the first level of a tournament when the blinds were just 25/50 and the effective stacks about 10,000 (200 BBs).
A player who looked to be about 40 years old raised to 150 from early position, and it folded to me on the button where I’d been dealt .
As I explain in the video below, this is a spot where for several reasons three-betting with jacks makes sense.