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MintTrav:

deanp27:
Fold now as c-betting the flop 4 ways on that board should be strong IMO plus you have players to act behind if you decide to pull a move. Personally I 3bet pre as it looks like he is isolating the weak limper and thus a good spot for you to 3bet and either win a nice pot without showdown or take control in a bigger pot

AMRN:
as played, fold now.... if it was HU, I might like to raise, but not with the other two in the hand, particularly when you"ve already labelled one as a station.

think I would have liked to re-raise pre...

WYoung83:
 Dont mind the flat pre flop, but if your instinct says this was a weird raise then maybe you should 3 bet to 6kish but as you say, i think your to deep to play for stacks. Most of the time when someone raises a limper they are just trying to isolate.
As played, Its  a bitch when one of the blinds peel, now the utg limper is never folding and the pot is big compared to stacks, and it is 4 way so hes not going to be c betting with hands that would fold to a shove from youself on the flop very often imo. I think i would fold now, looks like he may have you beat here.

MintTrav:
So it"s a unanimous fold now. Perhaps you are right. Anyway, I obviously didn"t do that or this thread wouldn"t exist.
I put the original raiser on something but the other two on very little. He seemed as bemused as I was that he had had 3 callers and he didn"t seem comfortable. A re-raise on the Flop might well be called but I reckoned I could quite likely take this pot away on the Turn. If an A or K happened to come I would be pretty sure I was winning. Otherwise, I felt there was a strong possibility of taking it anyway. Flatting his 5k would really put the frighteners on him - so that"s what I did.

This is where it got interesting. The BB again surprised me by tanking for quite a while, looking me all over, giving every indication that he was going to shove, asking for a count of my chips and then eventually folding, causing some amusement on the table, but he hadn"t been joking. Afterwards he claimed to have had AT but to have been worried by my flat-call. UTG called without much drama. I had him on something pretty weak, hoping to hit. The raiser was now looking perplexed at the two calls.

23k now in the pot, along with the chip lead. Stacks UTG 18k, Mid-Position c 23k, Button 15k.
Turn  :3s:.
UTG again checked and the raiser now also checked. Back to me. I"m pretty sure the raiser is regretting making this into a huge pot and now just wants to get to the end of it as cheaply as he can. I can"t see that there is a made flush anywhere. UTG would have just shoved if he had been drawing for a flush and made it on the Turn - tricky he ain"t. If Mid-Pos had made one he may as well bet again for value, seeing as he keeps getting called so much. If I bet now, I might take it down; if I get called I probably have 14 outs with the 2nd-nut flush draw, along with pairing the A or K. On the other hand, as I now have a previously unlikely flush-draw, along with the A or K, I could check behind and take the free card. This may mean giving up on the River if I miss.

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