PokerNews · May 23, 2017
Rivering a Straight on a Scary Board -- Check or Bet?
Jonathan LittleHere's another educational poker hand to consider, one that brings up a couple of interesting postflop decisions.
It was relatively early in a tournament with the blinds 250/500. With a deep stack of 90,000, I was dealt in the cutoff and open-raised to 1,300. It folded to the big blind who had about 50,000 to start the hand and he called.
I classified the BB as a "TAG / LAG" player, meaning he could sometimes be tight-aggressive and sometimes loose-aggressive — a designation I'll sometimes give to a player who plays generally well and can mix it up, making playing against him generally difficult.