NL200 - Top set against a 50BB stack, possible flush on turn

[Pete H]

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $2 BB (6 handed) Hand History converter Courtesy of PokerZion.com

Button ($105.80)
SB ($62.88)
BB ($199.40)
UTG ($207)
MP ($195)
Hero ($292.97)

Preflop: Hero is CO with 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
<font color="#CC3333">UTG raises to $7</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Hero calls $7, Button calls $7, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>.

Flop: ($24) 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
UTG checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $18</font>, Button calls $18, UTG folds.

Turn: ($60) 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero ???

Villains stats: 24/4/1 (70 hands), no other reads
I'm running at 25/20

With full stacks I bet here, but villains short stack makes it more difficult.

I don't want to give a free card, so I guess this is a bet/call.

NP: Wolf - Make Friends With Your Nightmares

[Oct0puz]

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With full stacks I bet here, but villains short stack makes it more difficult.

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Why? I'm more inclined to check with full stacks, because if Villain has the flush and bets I often have the odds to draw to a boat. Against a short stack donk I just bet and hope he has some other silly hand, which is usually the case.

[Pete H]

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With full stacks I bet here, but villains short stack makes it more difficult.

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Why? I'm more inclined to check with full stacks, because if Villain has the flush and bets I often have the odds to draw to a boat. Against a short stack donk I just bet and hope he has some other silly hand, which is usually the case.

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Because their range is much wider than just the flush.

I don't want hands like 88,TT or AK with a spade to draw for free.

[Peter Harris]

Pete,
this seems like an obvious bet, and to be worried about either the flush or (extremely unlikely) straight seems MUBSish. I'd bet 40 or 45 here.

Pete H.

[effinA]

bet all day here...u get raised/called....no sweat, juss fill up....