$200 NLHE Full Ring: Big Blind call, flop a Straight draw.

1/2 NL live game. Stacks are relatively even, Villain 350, hero 300, Villain in MP and Hero in Big blind.

Villain is a pretty decent player, tricky, and hard to put on a specific hand, and rarely enters a pot unraised. Hero is in the Big Blind with 4c6c. Limps around to the hero in MP, and he makes it 12$, and the CO and button both call. Hero calls, and it folds to the Villain.


Flop is Kc 5s 3s

Hero checks, villain bets 30, CO folds, and button calls. Hero calls.

Turn is 10c

Hero checks, and villain bets 45. Button folds. Hero ???


I'm curious how people would play the rest of this hand from the turn forward. after a while, i'll fast forward to the play I took, and, what happened on the river.

Pot will be $198 after a turn call with effective stacks of $211. I like a turn check raise all in. Against a one pair hand (AK no clubs, no spades) you will have 34%, against a set 30%. You have decent fold equity if he has a hand like KQ or KJ. It is also possible that he has a smaller pocket pair, which will have to fold. By check raising here, you are representing KT or a set. Villain probably only calls with a set or combo draw, like , in which case you have 39%

Seems like the easiest check/call ever. Guy is offering us 3.8:1 direct odds. Our call is always profitable even if we earn nothing when we hit (which seems unlikely).

Sure, shoving the turn *might* be profitable. We *know* calling is.

Also, that's a pretty loose preflop call. If you think the other two players are big fish, I guess it's sorta defensible since you're also kinda deepish. But even still, 46s OOP isn't going to be very fun. I don't hate it, but you need more of a reason than "oh hay, draw hand multi-way, let's do this".

For me, this is a fold pre flop. But on the flop, you are open ended with a backdoor flush draw. I like a raise here. You could win the pot right here, and if called, will likely be checked to on the turn. Now depending on your read on villain, you can check behind for a free card with likely 15 outs, or you can fire again as a semi bluff to try to take the pot again. I would lean towards firing another bullet. It looks like a set to a strong villain, and you have a ton of outs if you are called. I like to size my bets so I can fire one last bullet on the river if a total blank hits to follow through on representing the set.

As played, I think you need to call, hoping to hit. If your straight comes in with a spade though, you don't really like it that much, and you should proceed with caution.

Styrofoam said:

1/2 NL live game. Stacks are relatively even, Villain 350, hero 300, Villain in MP and Hero in Big blind.

Villain is a pretty decent player, tricky, and hard to put on a specific hand, and rarely enters a pot unraised. Hero is in the Big Blind with 4c6c. Limps around to the hero in MP, and he makes it 12$, and the CO and button both call. Hero calls, and it folds to the Villain.


Flop is Kc 5s 3s

Hero checks, villain bets 30, CO folds, and button calls. Hero calls.

Turn is 10c

Hero checks, and villain bets 45. Button folds. Hero ???


I'm curious how people would play the rest of this hand from the turn forward. after a while, i'll fast forward to the play I took, and, what happened on the river.

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Jeez dude. Fold pre FFS. What are you doing playing these napkins? Fold pre. Next hand.


Solid game strategy starts with solid preflop decisions. This is a huge leak calling BB with trash hand like this.


There is no need for further discussion, "as played", whatever, you fold pre, and never think about this hand again. I didn't even read the rest.