AQs...

[aK13]

Party Poker 2/4 Hold'em (10 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is CO with A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
UTG calls, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, MP1 calls, MP2 calls, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, BB calls, UTG calls, MP1 calls, MP2 calls.

Flop: (10.50 SB) 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(5 players)</font>
BB checks, UTG checks, MP1 checks, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, BB folds, UTG calls, MP1 folds, MP2 calls.

Raise here to knock out players behind me.

Turn: (8.25 BB) 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
UTG checks, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 bets</font>, Hero ??

Well, he stop-n-go'ed me, and if he caught any part of the flop I'm drawing dead. But I picked up a flush draw?

[toss]

Pots getting big, but I'm most likely mucking this one.

[Buck_65]

I like the flop raise to cut down the field. If MP2 has a 7, I would expect a check raise rather than a bet out. I'd call and fold the river UI. If you make a hand and it's checked to you, bet (and definitely fold to a check raise).

A read here helps a lot, though. I can certainly see folding this turn if villain is generally passive.

[irishpint]

folds. itll cost $4 to see the river and at least $4 to see if your flush (assuming u got it) holds up. i dont like this. possible reason for the SnG- had a 7. now he turned a boat.

[gharp]

Man, that's tough. I think I'd call here and fold the river UI (no A, Q or [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]). I'm willing to believe that's not right, but I've often seen 77-TT played this way, as well as 86 and the pot's pretty big.

[Rudi]

Disclaimer: First time responding to a posted hand.

I'd call the flop. I count 1.5 outs for each overcard and 1.5 for the backdoor flush draw. I might be messing up these terms but - pot equity is roughly 20%? and your share is 20%? (1/5 players), so I'm iffy on the raise.

I'd call the turn. MP2 didn't 3-bet your raise on the flop, so maybe he's holding a small PP (non 55 or 77) and you aren't drawing dead on a double-paired board.

[Buck_65]

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I'd call the flop. I count 1.5 outs for each overcard and 1.5 for the backdoor flush draw.

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The raise is to hopefully mow down the field and get it heads up. You definitely want to continue in this hand and there are a lot of hands you'd like to see fold, so this is the best way to do it. In theory you'll get to check through the turn UI as a bonus (although a bet would be better, then reevaluate on the river), but the stop n' go kinda ruined that. You may take down this pot UI this way.

[poundaforty]

My initial thought was muck it.

But then I thought, a good portion of the time, many of your outs might be good. MP1 could have anything from 99-22 (excluding 77 and 55 for your outs to be good), or maybe even a bare ace and thinking that you probably don't have a 7 since another one just fell, so he bets out again. If any of this is the case, then it's correct to call getting 8.25:1.

But then there's also UTG still in the hand, and who knows what he has. Call me crazy but I'm almost more worried about him.

With no reads, I think I call it HU and fold it otherwise.

[TheWorstPlayer]

Pot is big, I call down.

[aK13]

Hmm.. I like the discussion, although I still don't think a PP would play this way unless it was something along the lines of TT-88, and *maybe* 66, and even then, it would be bold of them. If I miss the river, do I call down 1 bet with A high?