No reads on the villian yet. Do I raise this after the flop or go for overcalls?

Party Poker 2/4 Hold'em (10 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is SB with 2:spade:, K:spade:.
1 fold, Hero completes, BB checks.

Flop: (6 SB) 6:spade:, 5:spade:, 9:spade: (6 players)
Hero bets, Hero calls.

Turn: (8.50 BB) 9:club: (2 players)
Hero bets, Hero calls.

River: (12.50 BB) J:heart: (2 players)
Hero bets, CO calls.

Final Pot: 14.50 BB

looks like the CO was on the nut flush draw

3-bet turn.

im torn between smooth calling and raising the flop...ill have to actually think. *sigh*

that kinda goes w/o saying here with no fourth spade falling

Just call the flop raise. In a pot this size, the players behind you will call one more seeing as how they are already in for one on the flop. I think you lost a couple total BBs by 3-betting.


3- bet the turn

Maybe I'm a wuss, but the board did pair on the turn didn't it? Is flopped two pair or a set really impossible? I wouldn't think anyone's smart (or dumb) enough to cap the flop on the made nut flush, but wouldn't a cap on the flop and a boat card on the turn be reason enough to bet/call instead of bet/raise?

And to prove I'm a wuss, I noticed that there is a straight flush possible to catapult this bad boy into bad-beat territory.

its party 2/4, the joker could've been capping that flop with just top pair and hit trips on the turn, this is also very likely