Take This Poker Quiz
A worker stacks bundles of cash during the World Series of Poker Main Event final table in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., July 22, 2017. REUTERS/Steve Marcus
Poker is a game of skill. Do you have what it takes?
The deal: At a seven-handed final table with blinds at 100,000/200,000 and a 25,000 ante, you pick up A-K in the lojack (first-to-act) seat with a 24,000,000 stack.
Should you:
Fold
Call
Raise to 500,000
Raise to 700,000
Score:
Fold (0 Points)
Call (1)
Raise to 500,000 (10)
Raise to 700,000 (6)
When everyone checks or folds to you, you should raise with all your playable hands, especially your best hands like A-K. Perhaps if your opponents were overly passive, there would be some merit in limping from time to time with hands that want to see a cheap flop, like 3-3 and 9-8. But with your best hands, you want to build the pot. A raise to between 2 big blinds and 2.5 BBs should...
