I'm only playing hands in late position from now on.

[Josh W]

Bleh.

I'm hoping that that one word adequately summarizes how I feel about this hand. Bleh.

See, I'm playing in a delicious 25-50 game at the Hustler a few nights ago. The game is uberloose passive.

I pick up AKs UTG, and raise. This is the first hand I've played in a long time, but I don't think anybody at the table pays attention to "image".

I raise, get 5 callers, and the big blind. So, 7 of us see the flop.

Flop comes KJ7, with two hearts and no spades. This gives me top pair, with not much in the way of backdoor draws.

I bet, and everybody calls to the button. The button raises, the BB calls two cold, and it's on me.

Now, a little bit about the button. He's loose-aggressive, and definitely tricky. He raises a lot of draws, but has telltale, um, tells. One sort of raise is "draw" and the other is "weeeeeeeeee, I have a big hand".

I'm almost certain that this is the "I have a big hand" raise. Like, 85 or 90% certain (not more than 95% certain tho).

I'm getting semi-infinite pot odds (represented here as 23:1) to call. So I can't fold.

I'm likely waaaay behind, as any "weeeeeee, I have a big hand" raise from the button means KJ or 77 AT LEAST. So I can't raise, being this far behind with no draw.

And there are sooo many people and likely weak draws behind me, that I can't just call and let them draw for cheap (hands like 55 need to be punished here, right?).

So, to recap. I can't fold. I can't raise. And I can't call.

Should I just use my one mulligan, and ask the dealer for a new flop?

Bleh.

Josh