[DougL]

Nate,

Your problem on both the flop and the turn is that you're multi-way with a heads up hand. You don't have good reads because the raising has been devalued.

I'll go along with others, flop is an easy fold. The “young winner” behind you makes this really easy to drop. Turn is a fold if you believe your read of Q or better. The river is great on a lot of levels.

You mentioned the bad cold callers being a plus in this hand. I've played in a lot of games with staddlers, and I think they're a big minus. They'll never fold when you want them to, so you need a good drawing hand. Based on your description, they'll never fold PF and your hand hates the action.

Hope you get more chances to practice your straddle defense against this lineup…

Doug