9♣8♣ BB vs BTN, turn on K♠ 6♣ 2♥ T♣, 40 bb
The spot
- You: BB
- Opponent: BTN
- Your hand: 9♣8♣
- Board: K♠ 6♣ 2♥ T♣
- Effective stack: 40 bb
- Pot: 7.5 bb
Hero evaluates exploit leverage versus player-image assumptions.
Choose the strongest HU postflop strategy.
See the answer
Best play: Call
Why
The T♣ turn is great for your 9♣8♣: you pick up a club flush draw and an open-ended straight draw (any 7 or J completes you), giving a big-equity draw against the BTN's wide turn-betting range. At 40bb with a low SPR, check-calling is the cleanest line out of position — you have far too much equity to fold a double draw, and raising bloats the pot and risks getting jammed on when your hand is still just a draw on the K-high board. Because the BTN barrels so wide in HU, you also have plenty of bluff‑catching incentive: many of his bets are worse one-pair or pure air, so calling keeps his whole bluff range in while you draw to two strong outs.
Key idea
A turned flush-draw-plus-straight-draw OOP at low SPR plays best as a call: too strong to fold, too vulnerable to bloat by raising.
Common mistake
Folding the double draw because it's 'only nine-high', or raising it into a low-SPR jam and burning the equity.