My thoughts and results
On third st. I thought there was a good chance that I had the best hand (the 3 seat would open raise with pretty much any pair, or 3 boardwalk cards), but I choose not to reraise because of seat 5's call, meaning I wasn't getting it heads up, which weakens my dead hand in a 3 or 4 way pot. I think folding is probably the worst option since I have good position for the rest of the hand and since my hand is best a lot. Reraising would be ok, but ties me to the hand on later sts. by making the pot big, which I don't like doing with a dead hand multiway.
I agree with everyone that my 4th st. play should have just been to call. What I was thinking is that I had a scary board and I was trying to take control of the hand and knock out the 4th player. Unfortunately I didn't consider the fact that the diamonds were so dead and therefore my hand wasn't very scary. I guess I also made the mental mistake of committing myself to the hand at this point, basically deciding that the 3 seat didn't have As, and might have had just a lower pair in the hole.
I 5th I think I should have folded. My 9 and A are both dead, and I only have runner-runner str8 draws. The 3 seat seems really strong after the 3 bet on 4th and then betting into 3 other players when he has a rag board. At minimum he has a pair bigger than Ts, probably As, and maybe As up or trip 8s (and an outside chance of 8s and 2s). I also failed to think about what the other two players had. I'd guess str8 & flush draws, with maybe a baby pair. Basically I am in 3rd or 4th place in this hand. I was playing the hand as if I was heads up with the 3 seat instead of considering the big change in a multiway pot.
On 6th, my 5th st. call comes to bite me in the ass. I really want to raise to charge the draws the max if I am ahead, but I think there is a good chance that I will get 3 bet if I am behind and my full house cards are kind of dead. You know you have made a mistake earlier in the hand if you hit your best possible card and can't even raise.
On the river the the cap was basically an impulse bet (like raising my fist while drowning). I was thought, oh well i *hope* he has 8s full, and he can't reraise...might as well throw in an extra bet. The result of the hand is that the 3 seat had As up on 4th, and beat me with a full house.
All in all I played the hand pretty poorly...luckily I realized that I was playing like crap a few hands later when I 3 bet a guy who I was sure was slow playing either rolled 7s or a big wired pair when I hit trip 6s, and quit the game in frustration at my stupidity:-(
Thanks for the feedback,
Carlos
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