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[Closed] AJ straight draw & backdoor flush draw (10nl FR)

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Party Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.05/$0.10
9 players
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Stack sizes:
UTG: $11.35
UTG+1: $17
MP1: $4.20
Hero: $9.85
MP3: $10
CO: $2.45
Button: $3.97
SB: $9.70
BB: $9.90

Pre-flop: (9 players) Hero is MP2 with A♦ J♠
UTG folds, UTG+1 calls, MP1 calls, Hero raises to $0.6, MP3 calls, CO folds, Button raises to $1.1, 4 folds, Hero calls $0.5 (pot was $2.55), MP3 calls.

Flop: Q♠ 8♦ T♦ ($3.65, 3 players)
Hero bets $1.8, 2 folds.

Is my 1/2 pot size bet the right play here? After i analyzed i'm not so sure
button is low stacked so if he goes all in i'm pot commited and i'm oop if mp3 calls


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Alaton
Joined: 21.02.2006

You hold a pretty strong hand on the flop with OESD, Backdoorflushdraw and an Overcard.
The advantage of betting out is simply your foldequity, if you check BU will almost certainly go All-In as a continuationbet and you can't call this bet with your draw.
By betting you of course have to call if he goes All-In.

MP3 isn't all that likely to call anyways, by showing absolutely no strength preflop, he should have a low PocketPair very often!

So I like the play, even though I don't like the situation preflop (calling the reraise), he gave you fantastic odds, but as he is ShortStacked, I would often have folded my Hand there.


ok thx for the advice!

How large must his stack be to call his mini raise with a hand like AJ or AQ ?


Alaton
Joined: 21.02.2006

AJ is a really ugly hand to play against a reraise because you have big reverse implied odds if you hit an Ace and are dominated by a better Ace.
In general I would always throw away AJ against a reraise, especially when we are OOP like we are here.

AQ is a lot better already and I would've called the reraise from the Shortstack with AQ.