Bellagio 10/20/40 mandatory straddle. Game is insanely aggro and I've seen over 10 10k pots in 2-3 hours.

V1: Spikey haired mid-40s Italian dude with headphones who thinks he's the ****. Describes his thought process after every hand so clearly not a pro. Not terrible post but not good either, limps a lot of hands, even in EP so pretty weak. 5k

V2: Doesn't speak english, at table with another euro who plays super loose / aggresif, but V2 seems tight and solid. Haven't seen him get out of line yet and is pretty. 6k

Hero: Hasn't shown many hands, and has LAG image. 15k.

V1 limps MP1, hero limps behind Q4ss from CO, V2 limps button, blinds complete and straddle checks.

Flop As6s8s

V1 leads out 160, hero tanks and before I can act, button makes it 380 to go. I ask what happens if I call / raise, dealer says if I raise buttons action is nullified and if I call the button has to raise. I look at sb and he laughs, I try to keep a straight face as I just call (i normally wouldn't do this but V1 is pretty bad and almost definitely won't realize what's happening lol). so i call, V2's raise stands, folds around to V1 who grabs a stack of chips and flings them into the pot without counting and the raise is to 1100. Hero?

Kind of a ****ty spot here in a limped pot, I think I'm PROBABLY ahead of V1's range and I want to get all his money but I could easily be dead here vs button and if I show aggression I think he folds everything I beat especially after what I did by just calling the flop knowing his raise was binding. Curious as to what most people think the best play here is to maxamize value vs their ranges.

It's a raise or fold pre for me.

why? The blinds are like never raising and button hasn't been ISOing at all? I get to see a flop deep in pos vs the worst player at the table.

I isolate this sometimes, especially vs this type of player but Eric Liu is in the straddle and I think he 3 bets a ton here when I iso. Should have said that in the OP...

Because you aren't the button and your hand sucks lol. It's not a good multiway holding as it carries a ton of rio and it hardly ever makes the nuts. If I'm gonna play it, I want to iso and have initiative, and most importantly- i want to have the button. If my image is **** such that I'm going to get 3b super wide, I'd just muck it. Though I wouldn't worry too much about a good, deep player 3betting me oop no matter what. That's just a losing play (3b oop deep), and you should welcome it from anyone IMO.

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Why are you rolling on the floor laughing man? You think 3b oop deep vs a good player is smart?

Please educate (after you catch your breath ofc).

you see the logic?

Just b/c its hard to execute properly doesn't mean its a 'bad play'

regardless; referring to the OP:

Don't really know from the description of how fishy V1 is, but given how he splashed his 1100, I think there is high chance he's not releasing any flush so I make it like 2350 and not folding to V1. If V2 ships it's obv gross but I don't think that happens often enough to worry that much.

Also, I don't see merits of flatting as I think V1 is not folding and if V2 seems "tight & solid" we're not making more $ from him in limped pot

I think keeping the pot manageable and multiway (and not folding out the fish) and deferring initiative is a lot smarter than doing the opposite this deep. A lot smarter...

I don't know if I've played with Eric lui but I doubt he's 3b op from the straddle here too much at all. Prob folding a ton actually if he's good.

Um, isn't this exactly what I accomplish by limping behind here?

limping is whatever. is it a losing play in the long run? probably, but you can get way w this kind of stuff live. i agree what your saying mike dexter but i think its fine in this kind of deep stacked aggro game which 10/20/40 at bellagio.is during the series.

i still like our spot with our hand. start w a call. v2 will play pretty straight forward given the preflop action (or the lack of) and how the hands been played out.

I was talking about being oop and 3b a good player (straddle's perspectie), not ip and 2b a weak limper (hero's perspective). I'd be much happier over limping something connected, or Axs in your spot, something that flops gin and coolers people. Maybe I just think Q4s is garbage and problematic multiway- especially w/o the button.

This is kind of a key point - if Eric Liu or any other agressive player sees a limp by bad V1, isolation raise by hero and either fold or call by V2 (probably fold) the squeeze 3 bet is almost automatic.

I typed out a bunch of bs about potential ranges for V1 and V2, but hero has no history as stated in OP. You might suspect that V1 is likely not betting out with nut flush (hoping to trap) and V2 may be raising with a variety of hands ranging from sets to flushes to dry KC. I guess the question is whether hero is willing to go broke with second nuts on the flop. I'd probably raise the flop bet even if I lose one or both opponents (if it was just V1 I might smooth call). If I'm called I'm hoping the board does not pair and a fourth club does not come off on the turn

Yeah I didn't include it in the OP because it was irrelevant to the spot I was posting for discussion, I didn't think it would turn into a debate about what to do pf where both limping and isoing so are marginal anyways. I 100% play this profitably limping behind, it's not even worth discussing.

Agreed - I'm virtually always limping behind with this hand in this situation.

pre is fine id actually be a bit worried that V1 has a big hand that he wants to LRR with since he figures one of you guys will try to isolate him (who open limps MP in these games?).

with this action you have V1 prob drawing dead whereas btn is much more likely to have a random Kxss just over limping for the same reasons as you are w/ your Q4ss. however btn of course can have any random 2 spades which he will def calldown all streets if you let him.

so i like calling the 1100 to keep in the btn and prob call any brick turn that V1 bets for the same reasons.