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Stack sizes
UTG - Banker (2k) - Big spot in the game, loose passive whale
MP (irrelevant)
HJ - Owns a dumpster company (2k) - Competent aggressive opponent but he has money to burn so he calls too much, bluffs too much etc...
CO - Owns a roofing company (3k) - Biggest spot in the player pool who straddles to 20/30 every chance he gets.
BTN - Hero (1.5k) - Viewed as solid winning player
CO asks me to BTN straddle and I oblige.
Hero is dealt 83
Blinds fold, UTG limps, MP limps, HJ limps, CO limps, BTN checks
With the CO in the hand I can't raise here since nobody is folding. Pretty clear check imo.
Pot is 50
Flop is AT7
UTG bets out 20, HJ raises to 65, Hero...
Per your request in chat for more responses - (and I am completely grunching)
PLAY THIS FAST!
50 in pot, 20 + 65 to you, you call portion is $65, so when determining our raise, the pot is going to be $200 already. We want to make anyone chasing a better flush or someone with a set to be making an odds mistake. Forget any benefit of deceptive lines here. With that, we need to understand:
1) We are folding to action when another diamond comes OTT
2) We are folding to action when board pairs OTT
3) We are committing otherwise ...("shoving" over any 4-bet OTF, "near shoving" any blank turn)
With that in mind, we are offering no implied odds back to anyone, so we need to price out direct odds on a 7 outer (which is getting ~6/1). If we make it $265 to go:
They would be looking to call ~$200 into resultant $600.. and if 2 call that would be ~$200 into resultant ~$840. So $265 total surely gets the job done.
Flame away - you asked in chat - that is how I play it here.