Is this a call? Sleepless nights...

[sirana]

This one was the turn point of a good session to a bad one, so it stuck in my mind probably more than it deserved.

Pacific Poker (8handed)

EP1 is loose.
MP2 is pretty LAGish, close to beeing a maniac.
BB is a real maniac.

Hero is MP1 with J [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 9 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

EP1 calls, Hero calls, MP2 calls, CO calls, B calls, SB folds, BB raises, everybody calls. (6 players, 12,5 SB)

Flop is

K [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] K [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] Q [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

BB checks, EP1 checks, I check, MP2 bets, CO calls, B raises, BB 3-bets, EP1 caps (23,5 SB)

I mucked with pretty little consideration, but I in retrospective I think a call wouldn't have been out of the way. I was sure of B and BB calling, and pretty sure of MP2
doing so, so it would have been 29-4 or about 7-1 for a gutshot with a backdoor flush (which I estimated 5.5 outs)).
I think the implied odds and the fact that two of the 4 raises are maniacs tip it to a call.


(needless to say the two hearts came and I was ripping the mouse from my computer and throwing it out of the window...)