AKs

[shakingspear]

I have many, many leaks in my game. I think this hand shows a few. How should I have played it?

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Preflop: Hero is MP3 with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img],K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, MP2 calls, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Button calls, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, MP2 calls.

Flop: (7.50 SB) 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
MP2 checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises</font>, MP2 folds, Hero calls.

Turn: (5.75 BB) 5[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">Button bets</font>, Hero calls.

River: (7.75 BB) 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">Button bets</font>, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 9.75 BB

[Yads]

3 bet the turn, you have 9 outs to a flush, 4 outs to a straight and 6 outs to TPTK. Not all of those outs are clean, but I think you have enough equity here to go crazy on the flop. 3 betting also defines your opponents hand better.

[Uncle Wiggly]

Did you mean 3-bet the flop . . . ?

[FreakDaddy]

This is a tough hand. Reads are so important for how I'd play this hand. If villian is semi-loose aggresive I take the following line: I check-raise the turn and check the river hoping for a free show down. Because you're out of position for this hand I still bet the river hoping for a drop/over card bet, although looks like villian is on decent size pocket pair.
If villian is tight - I still check-raise the turn - hope to catch one of my outs, and since you didn't, check/fold the river.

[GrunchCan]

You did a pretty good job.

I like just calling the 3-bet on the flop, becasue it leaves us in a favorable position to checkraise the turn when we spike our straight. OTOH, whwen the flush comes it will pretty much kill the action, so a flop 3-bet could get while the gettin's good.

Fold the river, unless you have a read that the villan is a habitual bluffer. You would need a good number of hands on him to make this read tho.

[Yads]

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Did you mean 3-bet the flop . . . ?

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Yes [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]