Re: Call with this strong draw?
I saw an interesting point made by Matt Flynn over in the MHNL forum the other day on a similar strong draw hand. I think it's especially pertinent since this is a home game with guys you presumably play with quite a bit, so meta-game takes on some importance. Matt's point was that you can't only play your monsters strong, or you're way too easy to read. The easiest non-monster to play very strong correctly is a really strong draw (flush + str8, open or gut, flush + overs likely to win, etc). Obviously there's some wiggle room in that advice, but I think this is a situation where you need to basically play this like you had kings or jacks on the flop, ie raise ~3/4 pot, so call the 100 and put in say 400 more (pot is 530 with your call of the 100), for 500 total. In an online tourney say party 22s or 33s where you might feel you've got a big edge over the field and most of these players will never see you again, I think then you can strongly consider just calling the 100, assuming whatever donk is in the hand with you will still pay up if you hit a diamond, or especially a ten.
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