2nd best pair top kicker and BDSD - whats your action?

[Bruce D]

To me a read is necessary to call any action correct or not. With no reads I can get a fold here. Do we know that the C player is not going to raise it up? I don't mind calling this down for a showdown HU, but this is three way action with a player left behind to act. Its a raise or fold situation and I think folding is slightly better than raising. If I did raise it (I would raise to try to get C to fold a better hand and to reduce the odds if he has a hand like AQ or AJ) and C folded, and it was then called then checked by A, I would then check the turn and check /call the river.

If I raised and it gets reraised behind me, I really hate my hand and will debate between a call and a fold. If it is 2 to me, I fold as fast as I can. If its is called by both parties, I feel lost now and hate the decisions I have to make.

The pot is not large enough for me to try to win it right here. I have to be right more than 1 in seven times right now to profit. But I will rarely fold both players so I will have to spend another bet to on the next street to try to win this pot again. So I will spend 2 to win 8 or 1 to win 4. Will I win this 1 in 4 times... from my current position before the turn? Those are my effective odds if I don't want to spend anythin past the turn. I really don't see us winning this 1 in 4 times.