You are facing your opponent heads up in the final round of a tournament, the cards are dealt and you look down to.....

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Situation 1:

In the following situation, you have been playing in a sit-and-go tournament, and are now heads up. Your opponent, Theophile, has a 2-1 lead on you with chips. He has been play aggressively the entire time, although for every show down, he has had the best hand.

Theophile is on the button (therefore acts first) and raises all-in. Of the following choices, you should call with (according to odds):

a. ace of clubs, jack of hearts (Ac, Jh)

b. nine of hearts, ten of hearts (9h, 10h)

c. three of diamonds, four of spades (3d, 4s)

d. ten of spades, ten of clubs (10s, 10c)

Situation 2:

Let’s change the situation a bit. If Theophile has seemed to only raise with low pocket pairs today (10s or lower), what would you rather hold after he goes all in?

a. Ac, Jh

b. 9h, 10h

c. 3d, 4s

d. 10s, 10c

Situation 3:

Okay, let’s change it again. It is still a heads up tournament at this point, but you are even money with Theophile. On the button, he raises three times the big blind. You look down to pocket Queens. I’ll assume you raise at this point because there are only 2 hands that you can lose to right now.

After raising four times the big blind, Theophile calls.

Question 1: What do you put Theophile on now?

There is now fourteen times the big blind in there (read: a lot of money). So much money, it is actually half of your stack and half of Theophile’s.

The flop comes 6h, As, 10c.

The action is to you.

Question 2: What would you do?

You are in love with your Queens, and decide to take a shot, betting half of what's left in front of you. Theophile looks at you for a moment and raises all-in.

This is not a good sign. He may not even have a hand but recognized your weakness.

Question 3: Do you push your chips in hoping to get lucky and hit a queen, or because you think Theophile was just bullying pre-flop and now again on the flop?

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