A9s SB on A96r: Top Two Protection

Hero
A♦9♦
Position
SB vs HJ
Pot
Single-Raised Pot
Flop
6♠ 9♥ A♠

Defend preflop and use your top two pair to check-raise a large flop continuation bet on a wet board.

Flop Analysis

Checking our entire range is the standard play as the caller out of position. Even with top two pair, we want to protect our checking range and allow the HJ to continue with their air and semi-bluffs.

Flop Analysis

Raising is a high-frequency play here to extract value from HJ's strong Ax and to charge their numerous spade draws. Our hand is extremely robust, and at this SPR, we are looking to get stacks in.

Key Concepts

  • Build Pot
  • Villain Slight Advantage
  • OOP
  • Semi-Wet Board
  • LEAN TOWARD CHECK