Re: Expensive Draws
Your initial preflop call is dismal, so let's assume you played this from the big blind.
You have now missed the flop, you may want to take a card off if you can get it cheap, but betting it now encourages people to get involved in this bigger pot, and the bet isn't going to scare anyone because often people will have hit this kind of flop, and (I'm assuming you are in lower limits) they won't be able to fold.
Even worse, you are not drawing to the nuts with one end of your straight and people WILL play AK here for 100 chips, so your jack might not even be an out.
When it gets back to you I don't think the push is that bad considering the hole you have dug yourself.
Personally I just call here, with the intention to fold if I miss, 490 chips is still plenty and I am happy to write off the loss.
You can avoid this kind of scenario by folding garbage preflop (Yes, I said garbage, the point has to get home)
Lori
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