A♦5♦ BTN vs BB, turn on Q♦ 9♣ 4♠ 2♦, 70 bb
The spot
- You: BTN
- Opponent: BB
- Your hand: A♦5♦
- Board: Q♦ 9♣ 4♠ 2♦
- Effective stack: 70 bb
- Pot: 13.5 bb
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Choose the strongest HU postflop strategy.
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Best play: Call
Why
The 2♦ turn on Q♦9♣4♠ brings a flush draw and in a HU single-raised pot the BB leads or bets into the BTN with a wide, bluff-heavy range on this middling board. Hero holds A♦5♦: no pair, but the nut flush draw plus a gutshot to the three (A‑2‑3‑4‑5 wheel) — a strong combo draw with the best possible flush card. Against the BB's wide turn betting range, calling in position is clearly profitable: hero has huge equity, the nut blocker, and can realize it cheaply while staying behind to bluff‑catch or hit the nuts.
Key idea
A nut flush draw plus a gutshot is a pure call in position versus a wide HU turn bet — you have the equity and the best card already blocked.
Common mistake
Raising the draw and getting it in as a coinflip-or-worse when calling keeps the BB's whole bluffing range in for full value when you hit.