How to Review Poker Hands: Price, Hands, Equity, Options, Lesson
How to review poker hands comes down to replaying each decision instead of the result. For each one, write down five things: the price you faced, the hands that play this way, your equity against them, the other lines you had, and one lesson to keep. The result of a single hand says little; a decision checked against those five questions says what to repeat or change.
A♠T♠ makes the nut flush on the turn
In the big blind with A♠T♠, you called the button's open, then check-called a 33% c‑bet on T♣ 6♠ 4♠. The J♠ turn gives you the nut flush, and the button bets 70% of the 12bb pot. Fold, call, check‑raise to 3x or check‑raise all‑in?
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The review, step by step:
Step 1, price: calling 8.4bb into a pot of 20.4bb needs 29.2% equity.
Step 2, hands that bet: sets, two pair, smaller flushes, top pair and draws, for example the hands in the table.
Step 3, equity, with the river to come:
| Button's hand | What it holds | A♠T♠'s equity |
|---|---|---|
| J♥J♦ | top set | 79.5% |
| 6♥6♦ | set of sixes | 79.5% |
| J♣T♥ | two pair | 93.2% |
| 8♠7♠ | smaller flush, straight-flush draw | 97.7% |
| K♠Q♠ | smaller flush | 100% |
| A♦J♦ | top pair | 100% |
| K♠Q♥ | straight and flush draws, both dead | 100% |
Step 4, other lines: fold, call, check‑raise to 3x, check‑raise all‑in.
Step 5, lesson: the author's answer is the check‑raise to 3x. The nut flush is ahead of every hand the button can bet; calling gives up value from the worse flushes, two pair and sets that will pay, and an all‑in folds out the hands you want to keep in.
The review sheet
| Step | Question to answer |
|---|---|
| 1. Price | What did the call or the bet cost, and what equity did it need? |
| 2. Hands | Which hands play the way the opponent played? |
| 3. Equity | What is my equity against those hands? |
| 4. Options | What other lines did I have? |
| 5. Lesson | What one sentence do I keep for next time? |
Keep going
- The price in step 1: pot odds.
- The hands in step 2: poker hand reading.
- Variance and results: poker variance.
- Reviewing as part of a plan: how to get better at poker.
- Spots to analyze with answers: what would you do?
- One spot every day: the daily poker puzzle.
Sources
- Every equity is computed by exact enumeration with the app's equity module, and the price with its pot odds module, checked on October 11, 2026.
- The answer to the spot follows rules written by the app's author; it does not come from a solver.