Dealing with a straight while big blind and big stack

[Lyrrad]

Hi. I'm new to this forum, and online poker, and this is my first post, so hopefully this is an interesting situation.


PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (9 handed)

Hero (t5980)
UTG (t2060)
UTG+1 (t2580)
MP1 (t3200)
MP2 (t3300)
MP3 (t3015)
CO (t1565)
Button (t1990)
SB (t3910)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, MP1 calls t150, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, MP3 calls t150, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, SB completes, Hero checks.

Flop: (t600) J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">SB bets t150</font>, Hero calls t150, <font color="#CC3333">MP1 raises to t300</font>, MP3 folds, SB calls t150, Hero calls t150.

Turn: (t1500) T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
SB checks,

What should I do here?

[Fiksdal]

Welcome to the forum buddy.

If you are pretty sure MP1 will bet, you could go for a check-raise to get more money in the pot. But you will rarely be very sure, so I'll reccomend just betting about 8-900 here.

[siwicki]

well, i like the call on the flop lol.. but i would recommend a c-raise

[mattmcegg]

Well yea you should have folded on the flop. But now, bet 900. You have the 2nd nuts, get it all in if theres a raise.

[stevepa]

Check-raise, give sb a chance to call MP's almost inevitable bet.

Steve

P.S. siwicki, what's a c-raise?

[mattmcegg]

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P.S. siwicki, what's a c-raise?

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Check raise?

Thats not a bad idea. But it seems with this many players there could be some value in leading out and re-raising after you are raised.

[Cornell Fiji]

fold the flop

as played bet 600 on the turn (normally I hate bets this small but your poor play on the flop put you in this spot.) Push against any raise.

[Lyrrad]

Thanks guys for the input. I guess I didn't see that I should of folded at the flop. Thought that it was worth it to pay the BB to see the next card with my straight draw.

I ended up losing to MP1 since he had the nuts (QA), and I ended up betting heavily, which I suppose was my 2nd big mistake:

Turn: (t1500) T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t1000</font>, MP1 calls t1000, SB folds.

River: (t3500) 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t1750</font>, MP1 calls t1750 (All-In).

[nath]

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I ended up losing to MP1 since he had the nuts (QA),

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WTF. So MP1 minraises on a gutshot. Write that down.

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and I ended up betting heavily, which I suppose was my 2nd big mistake:

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no, that wasn't a mistake at all. You got all your money in with the second nuts. MP1's holding you shouldn't really worry about at all given the action.