The Weekly PokerNews Strategy Quiz: A Series of Three-Way All-Ins

10-03-2015 76084 responses Top results

Welcome back for another round of ��The Weekly PokerNews Strategy Quiz.�� As usual, we��ve looked through the past week��s worth of articles appearing in the Strategy section here at PokerNews and drawn 10 multiple-choice questions from them with which to challenge you.

Each question has three possible answers, but only one is correct. Kind of like that three-way all-in situation pictured above in which only one of the hands gets all of the pot.

Get seven or more of these 10 questions correct wins you a passing grade. Meanwhile if you get any wrong you��ll be shown the ��winner�� along with an explanation of the correct choice. And remember, you can always look back through the week��s Strategy articles if you need any help with the questions.

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Question 1

In the article ��In Poker, Being Stubborn as a Mule Can Make You a Donkey,�� Robert Woolley describes a hand he once played in which the board read 3h-4h-6h-7h on the turn and he held Ah-xx, meaning he had...

Question 2

��Raise Big or Small? A Discussion of Open Bet-Sizing from the 2015 WPT Borgata Main Event�� discusses the sizes of opening raises in tournaments. Especially when antes are in play, one purpose for raising preflop is to collect what is often called...

Question 3

As discussed in the same article, what might be a potential benefit from open-raising big -- i.e., at least 3x the big blind?

Question 4

Speaking of pot odds, if the blinds are 100/200 (no ante), you raise to 400 from the button and the small blind folds, what price is the big blind getting to call?

Question 5

In a new installment of ��Home Game Heroes,�� Ashley Adams discusses a seven-card stud hi-low hand played with a ��declare�� and without a ��qualifier.�� What is meant by playing without a ��qualifier��?

Question 6

You hold As-Ad and the board shows Qd-Tc-9s-4d-Td. The *absolute* value of your hand is...

Question 7

You hold As-Ad and the board shows Qd-Tc-9s-4d-Td. The *relative* value of your hand is...

Question 8

This week on ESPN's WSOP coverage, Daniel Negreanu was shown in multiple hands check-raising after the flop when playing from the blinds -- once with a draw, once with a flopped set. The hands demonstrated how the check-raise is a valuable tool when playing against opponents who...

Question 9

Isabelle Mercier continued her guide on open-face Chinese poker this week, discussing counting points and royalties. As she explains, making a flush on the middle line is worth 8 points in royalties. So if I make an ace-high flush in the middle and you make a king-high flush...

Question 10

Which of the three hands pictured up top is the winning hand?