Straight in flush flop

Can you improve on later streets? And what is the purpose of your flop raise?

What do you think of squeezing preflop?

The opponents can improve and will call raises when you likely have the best hand, so the flop raise looks good.

Calling the reraise is judgment/Eqilab guesswork. (Who knows, he might hold 7♦:6♦:♦)

The call on flop is not ok, after the raise.

I wouldn't fold yet. Chances of flopping a flush is like 1%. He's probably got the nut flush draw. First, I would have tried to squeeze pre flop. I would also call on the river. But, if another heart comes, you're more then likely done.

Originally posted by MrPink578
Chances of flopping a flush is like 1%.

So what? I mean... We must think in ranges and evaluate based on the previous actions. I don't see how this affects anything.

Well, when the flop comes monochrome I don't see villain 3betting it with anything less than a flush?

Pre is a squeeze IMO. Chances are that MP will fold. Keeping aggression and put UTG to a commitment decision will be an easy read whether villain reads your range correctly and if he has the goods or not. Either way, villain will re-raise you where you can safely fold your hand pre-flop or he calls and you most likely are ahead against his range OTF (since only flush is way ahead and FD he as between 40%-50% equity and occasional sets of which you are ahead as well).

UTG has very few flushes in his range. AKhh, AQhh, AJhh. Maaaaaybe KQhh but it seems a stretch from such a tight player.

On the other hand, most regs will like to get in their TT/99/88 on these flops, as well as hands like AhAx and combo draws such as AhJx.

I'm usually in agreement with nitrol but not this time. My immediate gut feeling says this is a perfectly fine raise/call but as Yohan says, it's one for Equilab to solve.

Villain is bet / raising mw and we cannot improve. .. I do not like it but will fold.

Originally posted by la55i
Well, when the flop comes monochrome I don't see villain 3betting it with anything less than a flush?

You should bet-raise-shove sets for protection here, every time. Even if you are facing a flush you've got decent redraw equity. Overpairs with flush draws are calling you 100%.

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Not finding a fold in this spot with the straight. I'm expecting villain to sometimes have a flush, sometimes have a set, sometimes an overpair with the Ah, or A8o-AKo with the Ah. Heck even some paired kings (K8-9-T). The villain is nitty for SH but its off a small hand sample but that doesn't mean much yet, certainly not enough to resolve his hand range to shove the flop down to "flush only".

Folding here would be very tight, and absolutely -EV.

Originally posted by la55i
Well, when the flop comes monochrome I don't see villain 3betting it with anything less than a flush?

If you were villain and you held TT here you wouldn't 3bet it??

Actually yes I would 3bet my sets for protection. I think villain has some flushes in there and sets have good equity against us. If villains range is TT-88, AhAx,Ahkh,AhQh,AhJh,KhQh he has 53%. Maybe we can call this

Most literature in poker argue you do not bet for protection nor information. You bet for 1) value 2) as a bluff, or 3) collection of dead money (which is in alignment with a bluff).

Originally posted by Hesticus
Most literature in poker argue you do not bet for protection nor information. You bet for 1) value 2) as a bluff, or 3) collection of dead money (which is in alignment with a bluff).

Try betting 1/3 every street on a wet flop with AA. Don't complain when villain hits his flush OTR... Ofc you know that you have to bet bigger so you don't give villain odds to call with his draws. It is still a valuebet but it is also for protection.

A bet for protection IS a kind of value bet, so the statement "you bet for value or as a bluff" is still true.

You are not protecting but making his draws pay. This is value.

Originally posted by nitrol
You are not protecting but making his draws pay. This is value.

When the board is drawy, every bet that doesn't give villain correct odds to continue with draws is protection bet. It is a value bet that protects vs draws and we hope that villain will make a mistake and call despite wrong odds (same thing than making draws pay?) So imo we are betting for value and for protection because it is almost the same thing here?

I prefer to call it a value bet.

It is indeed a value bet. However, protection is a consequence of it.