$3.67 NLHE STT: Flush Draw Short Stacked Satellite

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iPoker - 75/150 NL - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 10.07 BB (VPIP: 18.18, PFR: 9.09, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, hands: 33)
SB: 9.03 BB (VPIP: 28.13, PFR: 6.25, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 33)
Hero (BB): 8 BB
UTG: 9.23 BB (VPIP: 24.24, PFR: 6.06, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 33)
CO: 53.67 BB (VPIP: 51.52, PFR: 12.12, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 33)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 3♦5♦

UTG calls 1 BB, CO calls 1 BB, fold, SB calls 0.5 BB, Hero checks

Flop: (4 BB, 4 players) T♠6♦J♦
SB checks, Hero checks, UTG bets 2 BB, CO calls 2 BB, fold, Hero?

$3.67 9-handed STT Satellite on ignition / Bovada / bodog / Bodog88.

Three players win a $10 +$1 ticket.
 
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If was a high flush draw, I would say all in. Since it is a low flush draw, I don't feel comfortable pushing all in in this situation. I would fold.
 
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I would prefer to put all the chips in this hand. But I do not see the tournament situation - is this the only table? (STT - means single table?)
 
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I went all in.

With three players in the hand and 6BB already in the pot, I decided that the chance I had to win at showdown plus the chance of the opponents folding to my all-in made it worth it.

If I had folded I would have been left with the shortest stack in the tournament, 7BB. And the blinds come around quickly on a five-handed table.

If my stack was 15BB it would have been a difficult decision. I would have folded, even though I had the equity to shove.
That would have left me with 14BB, the second largest stack on the table, two from the money. I would look for better spots to earn more chips. Since the last three survivors all win the same prize, I don't care about winning first place, only about surviving.

CO folded, UTG called, and I lost to his KJ.

I would prefer to put all the chips in this hand. But I do not see the tournament situation - is this the only table? (STT - means single table?)

Yes, STT = Single Table Tournament.
 
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I would have folded there.

Since its a limped pot, there are a lot of combos of higher flush draws {starting from 87, ending at AT} and since the aim here would have been to outlast two opponents, i.e. one player has locked it up with his 53bb and the rest share 36bb in between them. So I'm just looking to double-up (18bb is the target for a ticket, you're left with 7bb). I would have gone all-in with a good combo draw (flush+straight/overs) or monsters, but in this case, you just have a low flush draw, making it an easy fold.
 
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I would have folded there.

Since its a limped pot, there are a lot of combos of higher flush draws {starting from 87, ending at AT} and since the aim here would have been to outlast two opponents, i.e. one player has locked it up with his 53bb and the rest share 36bb in between them. So I'm just looking to double-up (18bb is the target for a ticket, you're left with 7bb). I would have gone all-in with a good combo draw (flush+straight/overs) or monsters, but in this case, you just have a low flush draw, making it an easy fold.

I just put this through an equity calculator, and I'm farther behind than I thought. I think I underestimated the importance of the straight draw.

If we assume that the UTG and CO both have at least top pair or a draw, we can give them a range of approximately [*d*d, 98s, T9s+,J9s+,Q9+,AJ]
(where *d*d means any two diamonds). They don't really have any two diamonds, since we assume that UTG would not have open limped hands like 8d4d, but I didn't have a good way to calculate this without typing in every diamond suited connector and one-gapper.

My equity is 19%, while the villains are at 39% each.

I have some fold equity. But with two competitors who have probably both hit the flop in some way, it seems likely that one will call, and I will be far behind.

Survival, even with 7BB, last in chips, 5-handed, still has some value.
This should have been a fold.
 
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