What would you do?
What would you do? Two spots
4/8 game relatively passive, with a few calling stations
me in Late position
two limpers and i limp with A3s(spades) as does the button.
SB completes and BB raises ... everyone calls.
FLOP: Js 3h 5h
Flop: SB checks, BB bets, first limper folds, second limper calls
action to me: I call (bad call or good call)
button and SB calls
TURN: 9s
everyone checks to the button he bets
SB raises (button looks up and is alarmed by this)
BB calls
ME: What do you do now? CALL, RAISE, FOLD
4/8 game relatively passive, with a few calling stations
me in Late position
two limpers and i limp with A3s(spades) as does the button.
SB completes and BB raises ... everyone calls.
FLOP: Js 3h 5h
Flop: SB checks, BB bets, first limper folds, second limper calls
action to me: I call (bad call or good call)
button and SB calls
TURN: 9s
everyone checks to the button he bets
SB raises (button looks up and is alarmed by this)
BB calls
ME: What do you do now? CALL, RAISE, FOLD
Comments
With $108 (I think) in the pot by the time for your decision on the turn, your draw to the nut flush makes this an easy $8 call, as well. If it turns out to be $8 more still after you call the first $8, no biggie, if you still have all 3 opponents in.
Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.
Cheers,
all_aces
PS: On the turn, I wouldn't raise your draw. You want to keep all of your opponents in the hand if possible.
ScottyZ
As for raising the flop... I don't know, Scotty. That would depend on your read of the BB, I think. Let's face it, a raise from the BB when he has the option to check usually (but not always) means business. If he's a typical player, I'd put him on a big pocket pair (hopefully not aces, for your sake) and just call, hoping to outdraw him with your bottom pair and backdoor flush draw.
I'm assuming a ten-player, typical game. In a shorthanded game, I would be more inclined to raise this flop.
Regards,
all_aces
i would call for sure cuz of the nut flush draw
but then again i suck at poker
The fact that you noticed that the button looked up and was concerned when he got check-raised indicates that he might be unlikely to re-raise, which is one possibility you have to consider beyond just the odds when it comes back 2 cold to you on the turn.
I brought up the possibility of raising the flop since this example reminded me a little bit of the "Playing Aggressively with Marginal Hands" section of SSH (pg. 148). Looking at it more carefully however, and as all_aces points out, the chances of you having the best hand are quite a bit slimmer in this case than in the SSH example. So I like calling on the flop too.
ScottyZ