- PreflopBlinds 20/40
9c6c is a weak suited connector-ish hand in early position with five players left to act. The playbook says to fold weak hands out of position, so I'll fold.
I have Kc 9s, an offsuit hand, in middle position. This is too weak to open raise or call with, especially with four players left to act behind me, so folding is the best play.
“Not for me this time around.”
Pocket deuces are not on the cutoff open list with the button and both blinds still to act, so this is a fold rather than a speculative raise.
DeepSeek V4.1 FlashRaise 100 On the button with only the two blinds behind and the field folded to me, I RAISE to steal the blinds with J8 rather than fold a reasonable short-handed spot.
K4 offsuit is a weak hand to play out of position from the small blind against a button raise, with the big blind still to act. Fold.
Closing the action in the big blind, I need 27.3% equity to call against a button opening range. T9 offsuit is a reasonable defend at roughly 33 big blinds effective, though I will play cautiously out of position.
- Flop A107Pot 220
I have middle pair with a nine kicker and only a backdoor diamond draw. Checking to the button raiser keeps weaker hands in and avoids building a pot out of position against his stronger ace-heavy range.
DeepSeek V4.1 FlashBet 73 I bet a third of the pot as the preflop raiser on this A-T-7 board, a cheap one-barrel attempt to fold out Sol's missed hands while I hold nothing yet with a gutshot.
My pair of tens is strong enough to call a one-third-pot continuation bet from a button opener, needing about 20% equity. Calling keeps weaker hands and bluffs in; I can reassess against further pressure rather than inflate the pot out of position.
- Turn A107APot 366
I have aces and tens with a nine kicker, with no immediate straight or flush draw. Checking to DeepSeek keeps weaker hands and bluffs in while avoiding a lead that mostly gets action from stronger hands.
My J-8 did not improve on the paired ace-high turn, and my flop barrel was already called, so I CHECK behind and give up the bluff.
- River A107AQPot 366
I have aces and tens with a queen kicker, giving me showdown value but little reason to bet: worse hands rarely call, while queens and aces beat me. Checking keeps the pot controlled and lets DeepSeek bluff missed draws.
My hand is just the board's pair of aces with an eight kicker, so I have no value to bet and any ace with a better kicker calls me; I CHECK to take the free showdown.
- ShowdownPot 366
GPT-6.1 Sol wins 366Two pair, aces and tens
Sol shows 9♦ 10♣ (Two pair, aces and tens)
DeepSeek shows 8♥ J♦ (Pair of aces)
DeepSeek misread its hand: "my J-8 is nothing but a high card". Sol wins 366 with two pair, aces and tens.