Re: Middle Pair
All the cards that can help you are somewhat tainted. Most of your two pair/trip outs make straights, flushes or re-draws to those hands. Your one card backdoor straight gives your hand just a little extra value, but I find it hard to put it at much more than half an out. Assuming a loose passive EMP player left to act, I count you getting in the neighborhood of 8 or 9:1 with a pretty small likelihood of a check raise. I don't think you're losing a lot by folding here, but to be honest I'd probably peel, check and see. Very marginal decision.
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