Hand from a live game. Please advise.
 

The game is loose and very aggressive (I'm having fun not winning).

Purnell is bb with A5 hearts.

UTG (Maniac) raises, Weak-tight folds, Fishie calls, Tough LAG calls, Tricky calls, 2 TAGs fold, I call. The pot is now 5 BB.

Flop is 864 rainbow with a heart, giving me the bottom end of a gutshot, a backdoor nut flush draw, and a weak overcard.

I check, Maniac bets, Fishie calls, Tough LAG calls, Tricky raises, I fold. (Pot is 7.5 BB minus the rake)

Standard?

Re: Hand from a live game. Please advise.
 

Hey Purnell-

Wirh the maniac in back of you, who might reraise, I think the fold's pretty easy.

Especially with the bottom end of the straight. I would probably be tempted to call if I had A7 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]...

I'm guessing the flush hit...

-jeff

Re: Hand from a live game. Please advise.
 

Worse yet. Turn ace, river 5. Maniac wins the showdown with pocket sevens for the straight. I laughed so loud I think it put security on alert. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Re: Hand from a live game. Please advise.
 

Hope you stayed at the table long enough to make it all back and then some.

Did maniac reraise the flop? Did the other players stay in for the turn?

-jeff

Re: Hand from a live game. Please advise.
 

My memory is not too clear, but the pot was raised more than once on the later streets. I was definitely expecting him to 3 bet. The tension I felt as I watched what I thought might be the winning hand develop and then released when I saw the showdown is all I really remember. This hand would have cost me several bets if I had continued, but at the time I thought it might have been correct to do so.