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wreckoning
Enthusiast
Silver Level
Ten-handed ring game in my local casino. 1-2 NLHE, max $500 buy-in. The other players have shown respect for my play. I have been playing for several hours and haven't been caught in a bluff yet. A loose player raises to $15 and I call on the button with 4h-2h. I figure there will be a lot of callers behind me; there hasn't been too many preflop re-raises, and from the button I may come across a situation where I can outplay to win the pot. 5 more players call and we see the flop seven-handed.
The flop comes especially beautiful: 5h-3h-8c. I congratulate myself on my wonderful call. It checks to the preflop raiser who bets half the pot.
One player folds and it remains to me to act. There is about $150 in the pot, $50 to me to call, 4 players left to act behind me. If anyone has a flush draw, it is 100% better than mine; of 9 hearts remaining, 2 give me the pure nuts and 7 give me a hand I'm most uncomfortable with. I'd much rather make one of my straight outs, which gives me eight clean outs. I decide to raise here to chase out flush draws like 10h-7h and Qh-9h. I raise to $150. I have about $500 remaining in my stack; the other players range from $200-$800, with the preflop raiser having $600 behind.
What ends up happening is, the entire table folds to the preflop raiser, who mucks A-Q of spades faceup, and I take down the pot. While I was happy to take a $150 pot with 4-high, I'm still unsure if I played this right. My real targets on this board are A-8, K-8, 5-3 and overpairs; but I'm vulnerable to trips which was not unlikely considering the way the action went. Should I have just called and hoped to make one of my ten clean outs on the turn to break the trips who might decide to continue to slowplay, and hope to stack high flushes if my straight flush hits? I think if the stacks were deeper calling would have been the correct play, but as they were I am uncertain. What do you think?
The flop comes especially beautiful: 5h-3h-8c. I congratulate myself on my wonderful call. It checks to the preflop raiser who bets half the pot.
One player folds and it remains to me to act. There is about $150 in the pot, $50 to me to call, 4 players left to act behind me. If anyone has a flush draw, it is 100% better than mine; of 9 hearts remaining, 2 give me the pure nuts and 7 give me a hand I'm most uncomfortable with. I'd much rather make one of my straight outs, which gives me eight clean outs. I decide to raise here to chase out flush draws like 10h-7h and Qh-9h. I raise to $150. I have about $500 remaining in my stack; the other players range from $200-$800, with the preflop raiser having $600 behind.
What ends up happening is, the entire table folds to the preflop raiser, who mucks A-Q of spades faceup, and I take down the pot. While I was happy to take a $150 pot with 4-high, I'm still unsure if I played this right. My real targets on this board are A-8, K-8, 5-3 and overpairs; but I'm vulnerable to trips which was not unlikely considering the way the action went. Should I have just called and hoped to make one of my ten clean outs on the turn to break the trips who might decide to continue to slowplay, and hope to stack high flushes if my straight flush hits? I think if the stacks were deeper calling would have been the correct play, but as they were I am uncertain. What do you think?
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