Just want to share my hand from no foldem holdem

[Chuck]

Decided to play at an Indian Casino about an hour away from home. Friday afternoon running 4 tables of $1-2. Normally I like to play higher stakes but sometimes you play what you can. Buy in $100-300. I’ve played roughly three hours and ran my stack up to $650 or so. Then the fun begins. I am in middle position with one limper in front and I look down at AsKc. I raise to $15 (that had been the going raise for a few rounds and had become my standard). Button ($255) calls and limper ($750) calls. Button – I had played with for better part of the three hours, seemed to be a decent player but hadn’t dragged many pots and was a little spewy at times. Limper had only been there for about 30 minutes, coming over from a table change and won a couple of pots, in a lot of hands but hadn’t shown much either. Flop comes Js10c3s, limper checks and I decide to bet $40. My thinking was first, I don’t want to surrender control yet. Second, I have the Ace of spades as a blocker and runner runner to the nut flush. Two overs. Straight draw. I can also get away from a raise more so than a bet. I won’t know where they are at if I let them lead, so if I plan on calling with all of the above, why not set the price? I get two callers. At this point I have ruled out overpairs to the board – AA, KK, QQ and also JJ and likely tens – I think those hands would have been 3 bet or announced at the flop bet. Qh peels off on turn. Limper checks, I bet $100. Button shoves for his remaining $200 and limper calls. I have ruled out KQs Q9s and 89s as holdings as these hands would have shoved instead of call (so it is possible the button has such holdings but my concern is the limper) and I make a call instead of shove – want to give the limper an opportunity to bluff at the pot on the river or call it off. River comes a 3d and limper shoves. I, of course, call having outlined my thoughts above. I lose to Jh3c from the limper. No Fold’em Hold’em at it’s finest. If you have any thoughts, I’d love to hear them. Putting this out there to tell this bad beat story and hope we all (including myself) can learn from this. I have to remind myself, I want this guy in every game I play with as much money as he can find.

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