[Buzz]

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Ok, so we have $325 in the pot, 5 players, I have top and bottom pair and a bad flush draw with no low draw, I'm first to act. Whats your play?

[/ QUOTE ]Check/fold.

Hi Assani - Keep in mind that I am primarily a fixed limit player.

Your starting hand is not great, but it has several nice two-card combinations (call them features) and certainly is playable. However none of the strong features of your hand come into play on the flop. Most notably your nut low draw is immediately counterfeited, and the flop only has one club.

You do have top and bottom pair, but that is not a very good holding when the bottom pair is deuces. And as you write, the spade flush draw is poor.

Therefore you more or less completely missed a good fit this flop - and you are out of position. And this is a flop with which an opponent might easily have a good fit and it will be difficult for you to deduce how an opponent's hand fits with the board.

Checking and then folding if anyone behind you bets seems your best course of action.

Buzz