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Message: [QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 7128005, member: 397965"] Preflop Calling here is sort of marginal, because you still have 4 players left to act behind you. I think, some cash game players would argue, that we should not even have a calling range until BTN, and that everything should be a 3-bet or fold from HJ and CO. I plugged the spot into GTO Wizard, and using a 3-bet or fold strategy A7s is a very partial 3-bet. Meaning sometimes we play the hand to have a more diverse range, but mostly we fold it. Flop BB now leads, which is a donk bet, and with the nut flushdraw the only options are clearly to call or raise. You can mix it up and do a little bit of both. Turn If BB calls, which he did, you are almost getting direct odds to draw, so I think, folding the nut flushdraw on an unpaired board would be way to tight. In theory BB could check-raise, which would not be great, but I think, thats a very low probability event. If he wanted to do that, he would most likely have done it on the flop instead of donk leading the flop and then check-raising a brick turn. What this looks more like to me is some sort of medium strong hand, that donk lead the flop to "find out where he is", and when he then get 2 callers, he slows down on the turn. Or maybe a draw that bricked and does not want to bet again and risk getting raised. So yeah. I definitely call here. I dont want to raise though, because I want to keep dominated draws involved, and you also have much less equity with only one card to come. Conclusion I have to say, that the whole action here seems quite fishy including the 3BB open size, the broken stack in SB, 4 players to the flop and then a donk bet. It looks more like a 2NL hand (blinds of 1c/2c) to me, so please clarify which stakes you are actually playing here. And if it really is 200NL, then my advice is to strongly consider moving down and building a track record at lower limits first. Maybe starting at something like 10NL and not moving up, until you have won at least 3.000 BB at each limit. Your questions indicate to me, you are relatively new to the game, and then you are most likely going to get absolutely crushed at 200NL. Even Doug Polk began his poker career in the micros, and so did many other successfull online players as well. [/QUOTE]

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