$5 NLHE 6-max: Overpair facing 3 barrels of pressure

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poker stars $0.02/$0.05 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 2894078
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BTN: $5.19
SB: $5.00
BB: $5.78
Hero (UTG): $6.98
MP: $20.91
CO: $6.30

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is UTG with A :heart: A :spade:
Hero raises to $0.15, 1 fold, CO calls $0.15, 3 folds

Flop: ($0.37) 5 :diamond: 2 :diamond: 4 :heart: (2 players)
Hero bets $0.24, CO raises to $0.70, Hero calls $0.46

Turn: ($1.77) 7 :diamond: (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $1, Hero calls $1

River: ($3.77) T :spade: (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $1.80, Hero calls $1.80

What do you think about the way I played this hand?
 
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Flop call is ok but I think we need to be folding this turn.
 
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3-bet the flop and get it in. Flop call in the scheme of highest EV play is pretty bad imho. Especially because you're OOP in the hand. Use the fact that people at these stakes will GIAI and overplay a ton of mid pockets that exist on that board.
 
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Poker Stars $0.02/$0.05 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 2894078
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BTN: $5.19
SB: $5.00
BB: $5.78
Hero (UTG): $6.98
MP: $20.91
CO: $6.30

Pre Flop: ($0.07) Hero is UTG with A <font color='red'>♥</font> A <font color='black'>♠</font>
Hero raises to $0.15, 1 fold, CO calls $0.15, 3 folds

Flop: ($0.37) 5 <font color='red'>♦</font> 2 <font color='red'>♦</font> 4 <font color='red'>♥</font> (2 players)
Hero bets $0.24, CO raises to $0.70, Hero calls $0.46

Turn: ($1.77) 7 <font color='red'>♦</font> (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $1, Hero calls $1

River: ($3.77) T <font color='black'>♠</font> (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $1.80, Hero calls $1.80

What do you think about the way I played this hand?

Raise all in on the flop. No reason to slow play here with a couple draws out there.
 
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First you should have bet a lot more pre Flop, but after the Flop and 2 diamonds definitely should have go All in! Just call was given the chance to complete the flush on the Turn! :deal:
 
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Is it really profitable to be stacking off with an overpair in a 16.6 SPR pot? And how often is the villain really going to be raising the flop with a flush draw? Wouldn't it make more sense for the villain to just flat-call with a hand like JTdd?

I'm thinking that the villain almost always has either 2 pairs, a straight or a set in this spot, of which case it would even make sense to fold on the flop or turn, but I'd like to hear your opinions.

Also, I forget to mention that this is 6-max Zoom on pokerstars, so the players tend to be a bit nittier than they are on the regular cash tables.

First you should have bet a lot more pre Flop, but after the Flop and 2 diamonds definitely should have go All in! Just call was given the chance to complete the flush on the Turn! :deal:

I strongly disagree with this. I raise to 3x in all positions (except BTN I raise to 2.5x) and it's far more important for me to keep my raise sizes consistent so that I don't turn my hand face up. Besides, this is 6-max zoom on PokerStars, not full-ring live poker. There's no reason for a 5x opening raise size to be necessary here.
 
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I was surprised here when John suggested just getting it in on the flop so I fired up the equity calc to have a look.
Preflop the villain can be pretty wide here flatting in position, i'd say all pairs from JJ downwards, Im fairly sure QQ+ 3 bets. Any stats even a small number helps of course to range but i will assume competency.
Id also include all suited connectors down to 54 and all suited aces. So obviously preflop we are well ahead. On this flop there are a lot of hands that can raise, all sets obviously, but pretty much all suited diamond hands and all pairs 77 to JJ.I have shown those hands below and stuck it into the equity calc and this is what we get, 63% So a shove is ok if you think the villain will stack off with all these hands. The 6 combos of each of 77-JJ (30) outweighs the suited diamond combos (18).
Once you add in 7d then your equity drops to 43%, its a bad card for us against his raising range so as played we need to consider giving up on the turn, we still do have 2.77-1 on the turn and enough equity to justify the call, so if we call the turn the T is pretty much a brick but knocks us down to 40%. so a river call is still ok
we have to call 1.80 to win 5.57 getting 3-1 pot odds the river call is correct with 40% equity. calling down isn't really bad but after the 7 comes on the turn we are losing more often than not and calling down is just marginally better than breakeven.

So my conclusion is that John's suggestion of reraising the flop was the best time in terms of equity to get our money in. high variance but highest ev.
You can add in a few or take off a few combos but it doesn't change the overall findings.
 

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