4/8 full kill , kill in effect.

A loose passive reg I play with alot and we have a friendly banter asked me about this hand, not all the details may be right but close enough.

Table has a younger female maniac I have played with, she 3 bets with hands like 75o from the SB.

2 other Villains are loose and somewhat aggro.

Hero(LP player above) is in late position with AA no heart.

EP raise, call, maniac 3 bets, hero just calls(his play not mine), BB caps. all calls. 5 way action, 10 BB

Flop is J84 BB bets, EP raises, fold, maniac 3 bets, hero calls, BB or EP caps, all calls. 18 BB

Turn is J non heart BB bets, EP raises, maniac 3 bets.....hero is getting roughly 8:1to call 3 cold. I told him I would fold.

But then...he said, 'oh wait, this was during the $500 high hand promotion, there was 2 minutes left and if I hit the ace I get up on the board with a good chance to win'

So figure at worst he is 50/50 to have his hand hold up for 2 minutes, so add $250(15 more BB) and I think it becomes a 'grit your teeth and call' kind of moment.

Bad thinking?

First of all, your friend should cap PF. I have no idea how the flop ends up playing out if your friend caps PF, but as played I think I am actually fine with calling 3 cold and seeing what the action looks like on the turn.

Second, your friend is effectively paying $48 to win roughly $600-$650 with a 4 percent chance of improving to aces full on the turn. That doesn't seem like a great proposition if you assume he is behind 100% of the time, particularly since he is probably going to have to pay a 4th bet on the turn given how the action has proceeded thus far. If there is a BBJ in play that could swing it to a call, but the high hand bonus alone probably does not.

Sounds like an amazing game. He’d much rather cap pre though and hope for some fold equity. Turn seems like a pretty trivial fold.

Don’t be results oriented

Thats what I told him, but we teased out the $500 high hand angle and I think that makes the hand much more interesting.