[Surf]

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This hand is a good example of what I refer to as, "The Big Blind Bleed." That is, you get a free look at the flop and score enough of a hand to keep going with, usually a draw with another little piece such as this one. You call all the way, miss your draw and fold. You ended up putting in almost 20% of your stack on this crummy hand that you'd never have played if you weren't in the BB.

I raise the flop. You have position, you can take off the free card if you want on the Turn, you may just take it down right there, and if he comes back at you then you know that you can let it go.

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Raising the flop doesn't save you money - if you pot it, you are spending the same amount that hero did to see 2 cards, except when villain has a legitimate hand and reraises(which is a relatively likely given that this passive player potted it into a 4way field) you are folding without even seeing one card.

Investing a bunch of money with a decent equity hand and then folding before you can realize any of it is a costly, ineffecient play, since nearly all of those "big" hands that would reraise us we actually have live outs against.

For the raisers: what hands are you expecting this player to be potting 4way, then folding to our raise? Also, take a good look at the board and count out all the "real" hands he could have (2pair+) that may want to reraise us, and count out the "real" hands that will not fold (TP, combo draws).

Hero played it fine, presuming that he had good implied odds on the river when he hits. If he did not have sufficient implied odds then he should fold the turn.

Surf