Sometimes when you river the nuts you should go for a check-raise, but how do you know when? In this week’s strategy column, I discuss it using a hand from a $5/$10 no-limit hold’em cash game I played.
Here’s how it went down. Action was eight-handed when it folded to the player on the button, who was sitting with $1,900 and opted to open for $40. The small blind folded and I looked down at the in the big with around $2,150 in my stack.
Usually in a spot like this, where the open is big and we’re deep, I actually tend not to defend too light.