Daily Leak — July 22, 2026: Defending the big blind against a tiny flop stab
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Your hand: 8♥ 7♥, in the big blind. You defended your big blind and the flop comes Queen-high. You missed, but you hold two cards below the queen plus a backdoor flush — and your opponent makes a tiny bet, less than a quarter of the pot.
What do you do?
- ACall
- BFold
- CRaise to $14
Reveal the answer
Call
Right. A tiny bet lays you a huge price — you continue with all your backdoors and floats and take it away later.
Why
Over-folding is surrendering to bets so often that opponents profit by bluffing you with any two cards — especially small bets that only need to work occasionally.
Against a min-bet you need almost no equity to continue. Folding here lets them print with any two cards.
Option by option
- ✓ Call — Against a min-bet you need almost no equity to continue. Folding here lets them print with any two cards.
- Fold — Over-folding to tiny bets is the leak good players feast on — they bet small with their whole range knowing you'll fold too much. Defend.
- Raise to $14 — Blowing up the pot with seven-high and a backdoor draw is unnecessary variance — calling keeps their bluffs in at a great price.
You over-fold to small bets — losing pots you should have won by floating or calling down.
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