Re: OOP with a nice draw
NH. I play it the same.
With a super-draw like this, you have an equity advantage on the flop against a lot of made hands (for instance, you're 55/45 against black aces.) So I like putting multiple bets in on the flop. It would be nice if button had stayed in, but since he didn't, it increases the semi-bluffing power of your hand. Since the pre-flop raiser opened just a couple off the button, he should have a fairly wide raising range, and he should be folding a lot of it to your flop cr/turn bet combo.
On the turn, your equity's gone down, but you want to bet to finish the semi-bluff combo. Unfortunately, the pre-flop raiser had a real hand.
By the way, you didn't include any reads, so I'm assuming MP3 is an average TAG. If he's very passive pre-flop, it probably would be better to play your draw more passively and not semibluff.
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