Hand 3: 14th Jan

This week was Dice14 playing four tables of $2/4NL on Full Tilt.

Hand 3

Stack sizes:
UTG: $540.70
UTG+1: $660.80
Hero: $452.30
Button: $611.20
SB: $408.40
BB: $439

Pre-flop: (6 players) Hero is CO with 6c 6h
UTG calls, UTG+1 raises to $18, Hero calls, Button calls, 2 folds, UTG calls.

The raiser here was an aggressive regular and we'd been battling with him over a couple of tables. This is definitely a reasonable spot to go ahead and make a 3-bet, but the limper and the button were both loose players so there's more value here in calling and having them call along.


Flop: 5c 4c 7c ($78, 4 players)
UTG checks, UTG+1 checks, Hero bets $56, Button calls, 2 folds.

We hit a very interesting flop. We have possibly 6 straight outs, 2 straight flush outs, and we might have the best hand. It gets checked to us and we decide to bet. The rationale behind this bet is that it's virtually impossible for the pre-flop raiser to have a hand he's willing to continue with (as he would bet). He's also very unlikely to make any sort of play at us as it's a four-way pot and he'll be playing more straight forward. It's likely that one of the looser plays may call us, but we could have the best hand, and most certainly have decent equity.


Turn: 7s ($190, 2 players)
Hero bets $100, Button raises to $200, Hero folds.

Unfortunately it was the player behind us that called, so we have to play the turn out of position. We elect to make a "blocker" type bet, which gets fairly quickly min-raised. This is now a really awkward spot. We have to assume that the BTN has a made flush or a 7. He could also have a made full house. Even if he only has the bare Ac, the river is going to be really tough for us to play. Given all of this, we think a fold is probably best.

Another option on this turn would have been to check-call. This would work pretty well if we felt that our opponent wouldn't be betting the river as a bluff very often at all.


Uncalled bets: $100 returned to Button.
Results:
Final pot: $390