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In Razz 7th street, I have an 8-7 low and my opponent, showing 9-8-4-2, checks. Bet or check?
Heads-up, PokerToast's limit Razz solver bets with an 8-7 low against 9-8-4-2 showing, after a check 100.0% of the time.
The spot
- Game: heads-up limit Razz, 7th street.
- You: (8♠ 7♦) 3♣ 2♥ K♦ Q♠ (4♣) (down cards in brackets): a made 8-7 low (8-7-4-3-2) with a King and a Queen as the unused cards.
- Your opponent: shows 9-8-4-2 and checks on 7th street in a pot of 12.3 small bets (up: 9♥ 8♣ 4♦ 2♠).
- Pot before this street: 12.3 small bets.
- Pot size and the numbers: the solver groups pots by size, and its numbers here are averages over every pot bigger than 5 small bets at this point (often much bigger), so the "worth" values can be larger than this exact pot could pay. The ranking of the plays is what to take from them.
The solver's numbers
| Play | How often (strategy) | Worth from here on (EV estimate, small bets) |
|---|---|---|
| Bet | 100.0% | +10.30 |
| Check | 0.0% | +9.79 |
Measured on 863 play-outs of this situation. The highlighted row is the play that measured best.
The same hand when the 9-8-4-2 bets into you instead
| Play | How often (strategy) | Worth from here on (EV estimate, small bets) |
|---|---|---|
| Call | 96.5% | +8.55 |
| Raise | 3.5% | +8.22 |
| Fold | 0.0% | +0.00 |
Measured on 601 play-outs.
Why, in plain words
Bet is worth about 0.51 small bets more than check on average from here on: putting more chips in now pays with this hand.
What popular strategy articles say
Value bet 7th street often; and when an opponent raises on 7th street, they are almost never bluffing.
What strategy articles found by web search said on 2026-10-08 (PokerNews, Card Player, PokerStrategy, pokerskill and similar; mostly written between about 2007 and 2015, and mostly for full-ring games with several players in the pot).
Heads-up, the solver agrees: its main play is bet (100.0%).
Heads-up vs multiway
The numbers above are for heads-up play (two players). Most published advice is written for full-ring games with several players in the pot, so part of any difference can come from that.
How these numbers were made
From PokerToast's own heads-up limit Razz solver, trained 3,690,500 iterations, exported 2026-10-05 09:56:29, 35,165 situations (version R-3690500-20261005095629). It learned by self-play (Monte Carlo counterfactual regret minimization) for limit betting, at most four bets a street.
- How often is the solver's average strategy for this situation.
- Worth (EV) is an estimate measured after training by playing the situation out many times against the solver's own strategy: small bets won or lost from this decision on, compared with folding (0). It assumes an opponent who plays like the solver.
- Hand groups: the solver groups similar hands, so the numbers are for the group (here:
4|M8c|18|L|k), not only these exact cards. For each decision it looks at the street; your hand (a made 8-or-better low and how good it is, or how many cards you have toward an 8-low and how many of the low cards you need your opponent already shows); your opponent's board (how many high cards, "bricks", and their highest low card); the size of the pot; and the betting so far on this street. - Stakes: ante 0.15 small bets per player, bring-in 0.25, a completion or bet on 3rd and 4th street is 1 small bet, 2 from 5th street.
- Looked up when this page was built (2026-10-19); a newly trained solver changes the page and its version number.
Practice it
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