I'm usually folding in this spot. However, there were some dynamics at play that pushed me toward calling.
This is early on a Saturday morning at a table that has been running through the night. There is a lot of money on the table and a lot of action.
MP in this hand is an action junkie. He doesn't get crazy with 3-betting preflop, but he's always putting money in the pot and not afraid to stack off with marginal hands. Within the past orbit, I doubled through him when he called a preflop raise to 11 and then both of them called my 3-bet to 60 (I had KK) from the blinds. I shoved 168 (into ~180) on a 6-5-3 flop and he called. Turn and river were J-4 and he mucked.
I felt there was enough money in play and enough bad players involved that it was worth taking a shot at flopping a big hand, feeling confident that the preflop raiser would pay me off. Of course, what happened instead is that I flopped a good but not great hand, and got involved OOP with no initiative against a different opponent than the one I was targeting.
With that in mind, here we go...
Villain in this hand is MP from another hand I posted:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...check-1424107/
Asian woman in mid 30s; clearly comfortable at the table, huge stack, active but not crazy.
I have ~500; Villain has ~1,500.
UTG limps, MP raises to 15, HJ calls, CO calls, I call in SB with K
Q
, BB folds, UTG calls.
Flop (77): 3-3-K, rainbow
I check, UTG checks, MP checks, HJ bets 50, CO folds, I call, UTG folds, MP folds.
Turn (177): 6
I check, HJ bets 50, I call.
River (277): J
I (375 behind)...?
Thoughts?