Smank

there is plenty of strategy in this topic that many of you are disregarding like directions to the game, whether driving is better or flying, what the money won should be spent on etc.

pf is fine, 180bb deep you're okay to play a drawing hand for a big potthis flop is fantastic for our hand. as they think you raise too much check/call on the flop is fine. being raised with our hand sucks a lot as our hand is weak but likely to improve we have 15 cards that'll probably give us the best hand if we're not already aheadturn is an obvious check raise, especially with your image

Folding here is often the best play. Although most of the time you DO have the best haand at this point, you're pretty much going to have to either settle for winning a small pot or dodging a bunch of draws for a big pot. If you continue this hand and you're already behind on the flop, it's going to cost a lot of chips to find out.

Oh, and unless villian thinks you're a maniac, betting this river is waaay too thin.

The way you played the hand looks very representative of a Kx hand, and villian doesn't seem scared.If you have been playing very aggressive and villain has noticed this, he might hold a monster like AA, KK or AK, hoping that you'd use your position to try and steal it. Villain checks his monster on the flop, hoping you'll take a stab, checks again on the turn knowing you won't check behind when you sense weakness, and checks the river figuring you don't have a hand that will call a bet but are going to have a stab at it anyway.

nice hand, looks like he has QQ or KK and was just making a continuation bet on the flop, you weren't getting any more money out of him post flop no matter what.i don't mind the flat call to the 3-bet preflop to disguise your hand, it makes it easier to get his whole stack if a low flop comes.

unless you know the villian is a maniac/donk, please don't go broke on one pair.

A weaker hand like Q-10 just shows how much playing OOP sucks. The simple answer is unless you have a huge post-flop edge on villians, fold preflop.If we are BB in a limped pot I would probably just throw out a 1/2 pot probe bet to see where we are on the turn, unless villian is super tricky we should get a pretty good feel of where we are.

This is always a bet, not just for protection but for information and value. Think of it this way. If we bet, villian either:a) Folds, we win the potb) Calls, we gain information that we are most likely ahead as villian wouldn't slowplay on a draw heavy bored PLUS get more money in the pot, leading check/call or blocker bet the river for pot control oopc) Raises where we can assume our pair (which we have represented strength with on every street) is behind. If we check/called the turn we would have spent this money anyway, maybe even more by calling a bet on the river.If we check then villian

Against most villians at these stakes a turn check here is very -EV as they tend to call too much and bet too little. If villian is a maniac though and you're positive he'll bet into you if you show any weakness then nh. The main problem is that if the villian DOES have a 7 (which seems possible by the description you gave of him) he's often going to get more of our money as we aren't getting any information knowing he's going to bet the turn.

The pot is already at least $40 on the flop after UTG's raise, so if he IS drawing to the flush (whcih is what you put him on) he's getting the odds to call. I'd prefer a raise to about $40. Other than that, it seems pretty standard. As played I'd raise about 3/4 of the pot on the turn.

if he's come all this way then he's either got a made hand or hit his draw. considering pretty much every draw hit on that last card and he isn't backing down at all i say get out of there

well, you're risking 1500 to win 1130 more than what you would have gotten for a three way split main pot and two way split side pot.assuming he calls with any higher flush than on the the board but folds any other hand it's pretty close but it seems like overall the move is -EV

raise more preflop, raise the flop harder, push the turn

well if you had made te call preflop, you would have been all in on the flop drawing to one out.