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Message: [QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 6618609, member: 397965"] Preflop A tight player opened UTG at full ring. In that situation calling with a hand like A2s is just asking for trouble in my opinion. Sure its cool, when you make the nut flush. But its going to be more common, that you make top pair, and then its very difficult to not at least pay off 1 or 2 streets of betting from a hand, that has you outkicked. You could 3-bet and turn it into a bluff, but in general we want to 3-bet, when people are opening wide, and this situation is just the opposite. So I would just fold and not even worry about it. Flop You flopped the nut flushdraw, which is pretty much, what you were hoping for when calling pre. Clearly we are not folding now, so the only question is raise or call? And I like to just call here. I think, its very likely, that UTG can have hands like AA, AK or KQ, and I dont think, he is going to bet-fold them on the flop. There are also two guys behind you, who could also have a K or a 5, so all in all I dont think, there is enough fold equity to justify raising. Now BB raise instead, and this is not really, what we were looking for, but I dont think, you can fold just yet. You could be dead to a boat, but there are not many logical boats in his range, and you are getting a decent price to try to hit your flush on the turn. Turn You did not make a flush, but you picked up bottom pair. Which does help a little bit, because it gives you two more outs against a K. He is betting around half pot, which on the surface seem like a good enough price to call, because you only need to realise around 25% equity. But the issue here is, its still a paired board, which mean, that if he has a hand like 65, then 6d will make you a very expensive second best hand. And there is still a small risk, you might be completely dead already. So your implied odds are not nearly as good, as they are on an unpaired board, where hitting a flush will usually give you the nuts. And for that reason I actually prefer to just let it go. But its close, and calling is not like a massive mistake. River I understand, what you say, that his line dont really makes sense with any strong hand other than maybe 55 or KK, that slowplayed preflop. But this is a microstakes game, so we dont want to level ourselfes by removing all strong hands from our opponents range, just because we would not have played them this way. Maybe this guy does actually raise a K on the flop, because he dont understand, how strong UTGs range is. Or maybe he does jam a 5 on the river, because he is on tilt, and he dont want to check-fold or check-call on one of the worst cards in the deck for him. So its better to fall back on fundamentals and look at, how high in your range this hand is. You are facing a full pot sized bet, so the GTO line here is to fold the worst half of your range, which certainly will include A high. [/QUOTE]

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