Hand from a live game. Please advise.

purnell · #1 04-11-2005, 01:14 AM

The game is loose and very aggressive (I'm having fun not winning).

Purnell is bb with A5 hearts.

UTG (Maniac) raises, Weak-tight folds, Fishie calls, Tough LAG calls, Tricky calls, 2 TAGs fold, I call. The pot is now 5 BB.

Flop is 864 rainbow with a heart, giving me the bottom end of a gutshot, a backdoor nut flush draw, and a weak overcard.

I check, Maniac bets, Fishie calls, Tough LAG calls, Tricky raises, I fold. (Pot is 7.5 BB minus the rake)

Standard?

Turtle · #2 04-11-2005, 01:34 AM

Hey Purnell-

Wirh the maniac in back of you, who might reraise, I think the fold's pretty easy.

Especially with the bottom end of the straight. I would probably be tempted to call if I had A7 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]...

I'm guessing the flush hit...

-jeff

purnell · #3 04-11-2005, 01:40 AM

Worse yet. Turn ace, river 5. Maniac wins the showdown with pocket sevens for the straight. I laughed so loud I think it put security on alert. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Turtle · #4 04-11-2005, 01:44 AM

Hope you stayed at the table long enough to make it all back and then some.

Did maniac reraise the flop? Did the other players stay in for the turn?

-jeff

purnell · #5 04-11-2005, 02:05 AM

My memory is not too clear, but the pot was raised more than once on the later streets. I was definitely expecting him to 3 bet. The tension I felt as I watched what I thought might be the winning hand develop and then released when I saw the showdown is all I really remember. This hand would have cost me several bets if I had continued, but at the time I thought it might have been correct to do so.