Cash Game Hand

PokerNut2094

I posted this question as part of a reply in the online forum and it got lost in the shuffle.
I am looking for comments/suggestions/tips about a hand I played in a cash game last night.

Blinds are 2-2-5 (local rule makes the button player post an additional SB).  I sit down with $500 table minimum buy in is $100, but most people sit with between $500 and $1500.  I pick up Ad7d in 4th position and limp in (I would muck this hand in a tournament, but like to play any suited ace for the nut flush possibility in a cash game.)

A loose player in 6th position makes it $20.  This is a standard raise at the table and this particular player could make this move with an array of hands.   The button calls the raise and we are three way to the flop which comes 10-9?-7 with two diamonds. I have flopped bottom pair with the nut flush draw.

I check?  Would you bet (with two players behind me, I felt better about anticipating 1/2 size pot bet and calling)

Pre-flop better makes it $40, button calls and I call.  Turn comes a black queen.  I check, preflop better moves all in for $240.  button folds and it is my action.  I figure I have the diamonds and maybe an ace and 7 for outs.  Pot size is about $450 so I am getting close to 2-1.  Not knowing if my A and 7 are legit outs, I fold.  the dealer shows the river for another black queen.  All in shows 10-7 for two pair (my initial read on this player raising with anything was correct).

Anyways, did I play this hand correctly?  Any suggestions?

SirWatts

You played it fine and made a tough but correct fold on the turn when some of your outs are pretty dirty. The other option is to put in a big checkraise on the flop. This is the more aggressive approach and is very dependant on how the other two play. ie do you think they have strong hands, and are they capable of making tough laydowns, and what do they think about you? It's a high variance play but if the setting is right it can be a good option to mix things up.

PokerNut2094

Thanks for the comment. I guess there really isn't much to do with that hand other than make the diamond come on the turn.

I did consider making a raise, but I figured the original raiser was not the type of player to lay down top pair or an overpair and the button player was kind of a fish, so i figured it was best to keep his money in the pot to improve my odds. Oh well.

ChrisWinsor

I think you palyed the hand just fine your style of poker and what you expected to happen. Personally i like betting hands like that on the flop, other players don't really expect you to play a flush draw agressively at a cash game and won't really put you on the flush if you do in fact hit or the bottom pair if it pairs on the turn. You played it to lose the least money possible if you didnt hit your outs and it you did seem to lose the least possible short of folding it pre flop.