We are all chipped up at this stage of the tournament.SB and BB 1000/2000.UTG bets 5000.
I call with 7d7s.SB folds,BB calls.
Flop 7h7c8c.
BB checks UTG bets half his stack.
Do I flat call or raise?
I decided to raise and BB calls as does UTG.
Turn card 10c.UTG goes all in.
What is my decision ??
thanks for all your interest.
BB had 6c9c and the UTG raiser had AcAh.
Final showdown...BB had straight flush.
UTG had AAA77.
I had 7777.....
both UTG and myself were eliminated ......sigh......
See, this is the problem we all have with fish who call raises with hands that are trash, then get lucky and complete a monster. This is one of those hands where everyone involved goes all-in and all but one usually hit the rail, don't worry about it.
Fish? I'm not so sure...
1.) He was getting a discount to call preflop with a two-gap suited connector for only 2.5 the big blind. Not really that bad, yet I would think this was a very good spot for a squeeze play.
2.) Flops 15 outs against a possible set/bigger flush/full house.
3.) Looks at UTG betting out in the face of all this; would you puke half your stack with flopped trips or a full house,
or slow play it? Right, slow play it, so a 1/2 stack bet kind of says "Standard C-bet/draw/over pair"; flush draw is 9 outs, over pair is 2. He has 15.
Probably thought "c-bet with air or overpair"
4.) What would you most likely re-raise with on the button if the UTG bets out 1/2 stack as a standard C-bet? A flush draw or a
bluff. You would flat call with a set or better, as you do not want to scare away the BB, who is yet to react. (7-7-7-7, why did you raise it there?)
5.) This is where it gets interesting; UTG bets, button raises...BB is getting what
pot odds with 15 outs? (it's 32.6% with one card to come, 54.1% if all in with turn/river to come); What were his pot odds? Better than 3-1? They had to be, or close to it with the implied odds; if he had hit just the st8 the only threat would be the full house or a rivered flush and he knew that neither of you had that range.
15,500 pot, 7750 bet, 7750 re-raise (15,500 total bet by you?), 38,750 (46,500 if UTG flat calls raise) for a 15,500 call; 3-1 pot odds on the button. Easy call if that was the raise you made.
I think he might have been been pretty sure of the range of hands that you both would make these actions with, so he bounced that off the pot odds for a flop flat call and then struck solid gold.
Nothing you could do. Your cooler ran into a better cooler, lol. Although I have no idea why you raised the UTG flop C-bet - that could well scare away the BB and/or the UTG.