4 to Broadway

[Michael Emery]

So I've been feeling a little confused lately as to what to do with hands like these, specifically flopping a gutshot to broadway against a few opponents. For ex. having AK and raising utg, two callers in MP, then the flop coming 4 J Q rainbow, and such. I posted a hand below like this. In this hand I was first to act throughout. What about if I was last to act? Who likes a bet and who likes just checking then? I think I'm firing too much on the flop with hands like these. Thoughts appreciated.

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Preflop: Hero is SB with Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, UTG+1 calls, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, MP2 calls, <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, BB calls, UTG+1 calls, MP2 calls.

Flop: (8 SB) K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, BB calls, UTG+1 calls, MP2 calls.

Turn: (6 BB) K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
Hero checks, BB checks, UTG+1 checks, MP2 checks.

River: (6 BB) 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
Hero checks, BB checks, <font color="#CC3333">UTG+1 bets</font>, MP2 calls, Hero folds, BB folds.

Final Pot: 8 BB