It has been forever since I've posted a hand here but this one has been bugging me for the past couple days. Trouble is the details are fuzzy due to the fact that the hand happened a couple days ago.

$100 max Full Ring on Bodog

I'm in the SB with 4[h]5[h]. Folded to the CO, who limps, and the button makes it $3 to go. I make the call out of the SB, BB calls, and CO calls.

Pot: $12
Flop: 4[c]-5[c]-7x (don't recall the 7's exact suit but it wasn't a club)

I lead out for $10. BB folds and the CO min raises me. The Button takes about half his available time and makes it $45 to go.

My $10, CO's $20, and the Button's $45 make bring the pot to a grand total of $87 and it is $35 to me. I cover both players by about $20, they are sitting on pretty full stacks while I'm at about $120

My read at this point has the button squarely on an overpair, it is the COs min raise that worries me. I am definitely worried about a set, but a smaller overpair or a draw are possible (min raise for the free card perhaps). I feel like I've hit this flop very well and that I'm going to go with my hand so I scoot my $120 in the center.

Pot is now $174 and it is about $75ish to the CO, who calls. Button then calls as well.


I'm feeling pretty miserable figuring I've moved into a set who's tripling up. Cards get turned over and the Button made a muppet call with Q-Q so I was dead on there. CO turns over 6-7o. Obviously the 8 hits the river and he triples up.

I'm just curious if any of you make the call he did. As much as I was steaming from the beat (which wasn't horrible, but the pot was huge) if we were all playing with our cards face up and he *knew* that I was running bottom 2 pair I think he actually had pretty close to the right odds to call off his stack there.

If you were the CO and you had me pegged as TAG (not that there are very many players at Bodog $100 I give credit for knowing anything) would you be willing to play for your stack here with that draw? My other question is whether anyone feels like I was completely out of line pushing my stack in this spot where arguably I should be reading the CO for a set as much as he "should" have been reading me for one?

Fold preflop. No, if I was CO I wouldn't call your push.

As the hand was played, I wouldn't play with my draw as the CO. However, the if the cards were face up and I could ensure a call from the button, then I would call (the price would suck me in).

I don't think you were out of line for pushing. His range for the min range seems wide enough so that you may hold the best hand a good percentage of the time.

In addition, pushing allows you to take advantage of players like myself, and you could get a hand to fold which is very very similar in strength with your own hand. So, I guess I have to say I like the push on the flop.