Re: I never know how to handle these
Raise, if it's a loose table.
The hand looks like typical loose-passive table to me.
Loose passive players often delay their raises with the Nuts 1 card. They fear the flush, and they'll draw to non-nut Lo's.
The reasoning that this field is loose players pre-flop, and play A4 in bad spots, but then you cannot give so much credence to turn calls and river calls for 1 bet, where the pot has got large.
If they're tight players, then you can give credence to the calls, but then you're saying they been dealt A45x, 2345 etc.
SB may have 45, A58, A5K6 etc etc as well as A54 which you fear, and other hands to.
The BB should have the nut str8, if has then raising the SB is a great play with any kind of a Lo.
The short-stack overcaller and the mid-pos overcaller, can be making crying calls.
When you get quartered, with your raise called by only 2 players or 4 bet, and called,you loose fractions of bets, especially as someone has to have precisely A54x to have a lock.
When you take 1/2 the pot, you win at least a bet raising.
You've got a better than usual chance of the MP overcaller, calling the final bet to, due to the large pot size.
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