Do I ever have best hand?

[Sugarmaan]

A few general questions that I would love some answers to about this hand:

1.) Should I have raised more preflop with so many limpers behind?
2.) Should I ever bet the flop last to act?
3.) Do I EVER have the best hand by the river, and call it down?

Max table buyin was $100.

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[Laurens]

1) your raise should have been way bigger. you give them all a good price to come along, after the first caller who gets 2,5 to 1 for a call, the others get even better odds. making it like 14 would be the minimum in that spot I think

2)hmm, with so many players in the pot I think there is value to get from pepole who are on a flush draw with a single club, and pepole who have made a worse flush. you shouldn’t go too big in the sizing, a bit over 1/3 pot (in this case like 16 or so) gives other flush draws a bad price too call, but will still get called a lot in these kind of games. the turn is the worst card in the deck since you now lose to the ace AND the 5 of clubs, and you gave it away for free, so I think there is value in betting. Checking this hand can also be fine to balance out your range, but with so many opponents in the pot I prefer a bet here

3) It’s a bit of a cooler, think you always have to at least call, even raise, after all you have the second best hand possible on a straight/flush heavy board. Think the biggest mistake was the preflop raise size, could have made that guy fold A3 off I think.

[David Wibel]

1) Yeah, with so many limpers I think something like a $15-18 is good. It sounds huge especially for a 1/2 NL preflop but there is already $9 in the pot. You want as few people to see a flop with us and if we just take it down that is fine too. Our hand isn’t amazing, it’s strong but not crazy good.

2) Betting the flop is good. You have second best flush with connected low board. It fits all the initial impers ranges well, they could have small pairs, straight draws and some of them might have like queen or 10 high flush draws. Can also fit the SB and BB with probably having a straight draw, small to medium pairs or suited one gappers. I’m not great on sizing but we can get some value from straights and lower flush draws here.

3) I would say you can have the best hand a fair number of times. Opponents can want to see showdown with a number of straights like 10 or J high or queen high flush. Cold call or even raise is fine here. If you don’t want to see a reraise to put you all in just call and take the lose to straight flush or the Ac when it comes.

[Sugarmaan]

Thanks for the feedback guys – very much appreciated and will all be taken on board.

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