straight draw and nut flush draw after flop

[tav]

Hi guys. This is my first post on the forum. I've really enjoyed reading the posts here and have learned a lot. I'm curious what others would do here post flop.

It's a $5 9 seat SNG down to the last 3, and we are all even in stacks. The blinds are 100/200, and I'm in the BB. The SB has been very aggressive post flop the entire time, often leading out with pot sized bets.

I have Ac4d. The button folds and the SB calls. I check hoping to trap him into another post flop bet.

Flop comes 5c3c10c and as expected, the SB pets the pot.

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[PauliF]

hey mate
first welcome to the forum
its always good when the lurkers come out of the shadows

in this situation i am shoving almost all the time
hope that helps

reason is you are almost always winning the pot there and then
and when you are not you will win it more than a third of the time
(your flush draw will get tbere a third of the time and sometimes you will spike your ace to win and sometimes you will even win with ace or something runner runner)

thing is he is folding way more than 70% of the time and so since its and edge its good for me

remember once in the money all that ICM stuff is much less important and good draws and good hands are gold
shove shove shove

[ImBetterDude]

A villain that bets pot on that scary board is not folding a push 70% of the time when he's already ITM. He's got something good.

[PauliF]

maybe as high as 80 or 90 you recon?

[cowboyinexile]

[tav]

Thanks for the responses.

I tried raising first with the intention of shoving to a rereaise or on the turn. He reraised and I shoved. He thought about it before he turned over Qh3s, and his bottom pair held up.

I was getting very good cards that night and raising with them, so I probably had a loose aggressive image since I didn't have to show too many hands.

Considering this, I think I would have had a better chance to get him to fold if I had shoved right away. But I didn't mind the call as I thought I was ahead.

This leads me to a second question: When you are gettnig really good cards in a session, say 15% mid to high pocket pairs and multiple AK and AQ hitting the flop hard, would you rather have the perception of a LAG player or show a few hands to keep a tighter image and try to steal blinds later?

[ImBetterDude]

See, he had the worst of his range (bottom pair) and still called. Villain is NOT folding 70% of the time to a push here. I'm thinking he's folding 25%.

[nsidestrate]

[jmbreslin]

[ciaran]

He doesn't have to fold often at all for a raise to be fine, we're almost certainly a flip or better vs his flop betting range, so if he folds some small percentage of the time we're +$EV and we're more +$EV the more he folds.

Presumably, we're looking at stacks near 4500 each, so I think a shove on this flop is bad, because that shove should only get called by monsters (though we have reasonable equity even vs monsters). If the pot was 400 and he bet 400 on the flop, I'm fine with re-potting and calling/re-shoving over a 4-bet to get in if it comes to that.

Raising pre-flop is also an option, even shoving is probably OK. I tend to play it like OP, though, because I think it's easier to play a small pot in position with this hand than a large one when we're in this stack neighborhood.

[ciaran]