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Originally Posted by laberrababer
Masq my bro. Did I butcher this hand or is this a fold pre?
Is it good to get it in here on this flop?
Afraid to say there's a few mistakes there. Firstly your hand's not so great. You don't have many possibilities to make good flushes with your hand. You do have some connectivity with the 678 but it's not really a hand i'd be opening with pre-flop, let alone calling a 3bet. Maybe if you had a bit more connectivity like 6789/5678 then you could consider calling the 3bet. But only if you figure they're going to be 3betting most of the time with AAxx hands and stacking off on flop regardless of texture.
On the flop you have the OESD but no re-draw to the spade flush draw. Also there's a straight up there already. When you ask yourself "what sort of hands are going to be calling my raise?" which hands will you be beating. At this point you're behind the flopped straight, behind sets, I think you're ahead of an AAxx hand (which has no spades and doesn't have any of your outs.) You're ahead of 24 I guess.
Bottom line, it's really thin and I don't think it's really a hand you should be opening with and calling 3bets with. There's obviously the element of it depends on your opponent but I wouldn't have played the hand like that. Looks like it worked out though in this case. What did villain have? Was it the AAxx with some spades or a run-down sort of hand like 6789?