$20/$40 Stud High: Standard 3rd street fold, but can I please play?

[Bartholow]

The key info is that the completer is clearly awful, the raiser is very aggressive but not fantastic, and there is a dead A, and my cards are live. I worry that the raiser could isolate with a lot of hands here and force me to fold the best hand in a situation where I could have a LOT of equity.

7 Card Stud High ($20/$40), Ante $2, Bring-In $5 (hand converter)

3rd Street - (0.80 SB)

Hero: J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]___folds
Seat 2: xx xx 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
Seat 3: xx xx 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]___brings-in___folds
Seat 4: xx xx 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]___folds
Seat 5: xx xx 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]___folds
Seat 6: xx xx A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]___folds
Seat 7: xx xx T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]___completes___calls
Seat 8: xx xx A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]___raises

[Jeffage]

I don't think playing here (based on your analysis) would be that bad. But if you do decide to play, you have a clear reraise. Notice that hearts are pretty live...would the schmo with the Ace raise with an ace high 3-flush? 3 big cards? Other possibilities based on live cards are buried Kings or Jacks. If he's VERY aggressive, combined with the dead ace and live hearts, I say bang it again. It's only money right? Size the situation up and make a decision.

Jeff

[Bartholow]

Yeah, I was thinking along the same lines: if I play it's a reraise, and it must be close to being a play. But the game is tightly anted so... I folded.

[BeerMoney]

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I folded.

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I believe that. I've never bluffed roland either.

[Bartholow]

Guess I won't be selling YOU my bridge.

But I did fold, cross my heart.