Flushes don't get any worse than this

[PoBoy321]

Ultimate Bet No-Limit Hold'em, $.25 BB (6 handed) converter

Hero ($26.20)
BB ($11.40)
UTG ($38.25)
MP ($7.15)
CO ($8.75)
Button ($29.10)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
<font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to $0.85</font>, <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, Hero calls $0.75, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>.

Flop: ($1.95) 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $1.75</font>, UTG calls $1.75.

Turn: ($5.45) 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $4.5</font>, <font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to $18.95</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero...

[beavens]

fold, move on.

[lautzutao]

call, hit the 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], go allin. Poker's easy.[img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

That really stinks, but there's really no way you can call this unless you know villian to be an idiot [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[PoBoy321]

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fold, move on.

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That was my first instinct too, but then I realized that since the A [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] was out there it became much less likely that he had a flush, since even at 6-max, the only possible hand he could have had that would raise UTG that made a flush was KQ [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], and even that isn't very likely.

Do you see the possibility of AxK [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] here?

[The_Bends]

I don't think I'd ever fold a 3 flush at NL25 unless I had a specific note on the player.

Call. A9/AT/TT/99/A4/T9/44 all play this way.

[ajmargarine]

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That really stinks, but there's really no way you can call this unless you know villian to be an idiot [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Disagree.

Reads would be nice. A decent player may try to move hero off his hand by representing the flush, maybe with a big diamond as a backup. And a decent player would make a real raise like this. A poor player probably minraises a flush. Or slowplays it. I get all-in here. Take your medicine for not folding preflop, which you should have done.

all-in at this level...I expect him to have 2-pair or trips enough to make it worthwhile, or even AJ or something.

I am not so sure folding is so cut and dry here either.

[beavens]

but youre beat by 5dxd and up.. do you really want to bet your stack on the worst possible flush? (barring that 5d doesnt hit on the river)

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but youre beat by 5dxd and up.. do you really want to bet your stack on the worst possible flush? (barring that 5d doesnt hit on the river)

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The whole point is that we do not think villain has a flush. Hero's flush is well disguised, so it is quite possible villain is making a play at the pot. You very rarely see a made flush play this way at these stakes. I would not be the least bit surprised to see villain have a set here with one diamond or some other hand that Hero has beat.