[davelin]

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First off, how are you posting in the SB and getting a free play? Paradise won't let people come in on the SB, making them wait until the button.

Also, the pot size on each street doesn't make any sense. There's 4 BB in the pot on the turn, and only 3 players called your turn bet. Yet when the river's dealt, there's 8 BBs in the pot.

As for the hand, I don't think you can go for a C/R until you can get a bead on how the field will act on the turn.

Therefore, you must bet the flop. If you lost, this is where you likely lost it (if you're up against a flopped set, your opponent played it miserably). Your hand can become easily counterfeited, and with the pot this big, you don't want to risk a turn card hitting that gives longshot draws on the flop a reason to see the river. And it won't take much -- pretty much any card will do, given you have seven opponents.

You hit a perfect flop, and this is an instance in which your lack of position is actually a good thing. You can bet the flop (people will call here with anything -- gutshots, overcards, 88, etc.) and then go for the C/R on the turn.

The turn is a perfect card, as the only hand you could possibly be behind is A4 or A9. Someone out there's playing A-rag and you'll make them pay.

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Going into the turn there is 4BB correctly stated. There was 8 SB into the flop which was checked. So then 4BB into the turn which was bet and called by 3 others which made it 8BB going into the river.