Situations and Practice-Hand Quizzes, Hand #7 Page 130...

A little confused by the analysis here. We have the nut straight on the turn, and Hwang suggests just calling a raise since we have no redraw. Ok fine. But he says "you don't necessarily have to fold here either". Why would we ever fold the nuts on the turn?

Then the board pairs on the river (the only thing we were worried about on the turn). Now though, Hwang states that it's unlikely for villain to have filled up.

So why not reraise the turn?

Any thoughts appreciated.

Even if it's unlikely, I think the basic idea is that on the turn reraising does no good because you're getting your money back at best, and worse depending on what redraw your opponent might have. What does a turn reraise accomplish? We're almost sure he has a straight.

On the river, we have an opportunity to bluff him off the straight. So now we have some incentive to put more money in the pot. This is the more interesting spot. We could have gotten raised on the turn with KTJ4 or AKT4. It's more about which card pairs on the river, not just that the river paired.

Note that if we reraise the turn, then we're simply getting our money in with a tied hand that has nowhere to go (all the money goes in). By simply calling the turn, we get a good bluffing opportunity if certain cards such as a Q come. We can't make that bluff if we're all in on the turn.

Probably best to post in one of the PLO sections.

This forum is mostly for general reviews. Janda thread is abit different as the author is active in answering questions.