Home Game 5-5. Straddles regularly on. About an hour or so after Hand 1.

Hand 2

Straddle off this hand. Hero is under the gun with KK:club ($1100): Raises to $25 UTG. Villain 1 from first hand and Villain 2 from first hand both call. Villain 3 in SB also calls ($800).

Flop (Pot $105). Q107

SB checks. Hero bets $100. Villain 1 folds. Villain 2 ($1500) calls. SB (Villain 3) tanks for a while and raises to $400. Villain 3 is consistent winner at the game and generally plays TAG, although will show up with some crazy hands from time to time. Hero has tell on Villain 3 that suggests this is not a flat out bluff, but no other worthwhile reads.

Hero??

Hand 3

About 2 hours later in same game. Hero has just gotten coolered a couple of hands ago and lost his stack. Game is six handed now. Hero has A7 ($600) and is in the hijack. Straddle is on.

Hero flats. Button (Villain 4 $2200) flats. Villain 2 from prior hands ($1200) flats. Villain 3 from prior hand flats.

Flop (pot $45). Q98

Villain 2 checks. Villain 3 leads out $40. Hero flats. Villain 4 raises to $150. Villain 2 reraises to $375. Villain 3 folds. Hero??

V3's line over three of you is very strong in hand 2, he's committing to playing for stacks. By your own words, you think he isn't bluffing. At worst he has a combo draw here, IMO. He didn't just raise here with J9o. You should really take this to pokerstove after assigning him a range. If you continue it's a shove, not a call.

Hand 3 is a pokerstove question, not a question for us. V2 is repping huge strength here, like a set or a straight, so give them a strong hand, give yourself what you have, and think about V4's range based on your experience with his play.

Sorry, should have assigned more ranges to these hands as well. In hand 2, Villain could have any 89, J9, AQ.

In Hand 3. i am assuming that at least one and possibly both of them have J 10, with the possibility that one of them has J 10. Both villains could also have 88 or 99, although somewhat unlikely given pre flop action. QQ almost an impossibility for Villain 2 and very, very unlikely for Villain 4.