Maria Konnikova is a best-selling author turned semi-pro tournament poker player. She is a contributing writer for the New Yorker and the author of The Confidence Game and Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. 

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Strategy Hand

This hand is from a 1-3 NLH cash game. UTG +1 limps, and it folds around to me in the cutoff. I look down at Ah4h and raise to 11. I have been playing for a few hrs and sitting on a $530 stack. the BB and and limper call, and we go 3 ways to a flop of KhKc8h.

It checks to me and I bet 20. The BB calls, and the limper folds.

The turn comes the 9h giving me the nut flush. The BB checks, and I bet 60. The BB check raises the turn to 200. He has me covered sitting on a 600+ stack. I call.

The river comes a 4s and villain shoves.