re: Poker & How to play versus flush draws?
Originally Posted by Garfield52
Got to be really careful with the flush draw especially when you are playing against somebody who is loosey goosey. They will probably hook the flush with something as bas a 2 n 3 suited.
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True, the op should be careful of the Flush sometimes, but I like the bet/all-in route taken. There are so many factors to discuss on something as broad as "how to play against a Flush Draw?" For instance, what is the game format (MTT, Sit n' Go, Heads-up Winner Take All etc.), what is you table image like (TAG, Maniac, Calling Station, TAG but recently caught bluffing twice etc.), how many other [potential] players are active in the hand. All of these and more impact how you should play.
Based on the information given so far, I first want to mention that you should be betting/all-in to apply pressure; you want to charge them to continue. You might induce a fold before another card comes for their Flush and even if it does get there, that doesn't mean they hold a Flush.
Your opponent might reasonably have way more than just an overpair or two spades. They might have a lower pocket pair, they might have Ace-rag (especially if suited like A-2 but not necessarily in spades) and they might hold a lot of junk bluffs too. However, they limped UTG+1, so I'm already considering hands with decent playability but maybe not something they love to get it all-in with. Hands like J-T for instance.
I'd probably have played it similar to how you did with an all-in shove when you did. A set is really high and one must consider how much the board favors your range.
First of all, you are in the BB, so you could have anything - but it is less likely a player in the HJ seat has a 9, 8, or 4. What hand would they have there? A9s? T9s? Granted, they didn't raise, so maybe the high stuff like Aces or Kings are less likely, but it is still highly probable. The fact that you covered them in stack size helps us a lot and hitting a set (8 is a solid mid-pair set too) makes this hand really hard to fold without a tell etc. I'm sure someone more experienced in the math than me could display some range hand combinations, but I'm pretty sure that they have far more bluffs than hands that beat our set here.
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