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What do you do in situations like these?
Playing J6 suited from the button (I know, crap hand - pretend it's JA if it makes you feel better, OK?). Flop is T92, none of your suit. In essence the flop gives you nothing except a backdoor straight draw. It checks around until one player whips out the sturdy post-oak bluff, a silly little 1X BB bet. The pot has six limpers in it, so this bet is 1/6 of the current pot, and it's pretty much a guarantee that 4 or 5 of the limpers will call just to try to improve.
Do you...
A. call, hoping to catch a real straight draw on the turn?
B. throw down a real bet, thinking you can steal this pot right now?
C. fold?
I hate these situations. I seem to usually fold or call depending on my mood & if I have any outs other than that remote possibility of the straight. I don't think I have a logical, well thought-out response that I do every time this comes up. I understand the value of stabbing at pots full of weak bettors, but with this many in, that's a very dangerous game... you tend to get called just because of all the action, and then someone with a stronger draw than yours (or with a middle pair or something) takes it down. Or worse, you bump into a check-raise. I don't worry about those much in pots with just three guys, but with six I get nervous.
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