Dodgy/tough straight decision?

[DODGYKEN]

Interpoker E200PLO. I on the BB with E233 and get dealt Jh Th 2d 9c. Only 2 limpers - UTG and EP - and the SB completes.

4 see the flop of 8c 4c 9s. I have a straight draw, but nothing to get excited about as there are only 6 nut outs for me. It gets checked around.

Turn is 7s. So I made my straight but now there are 2 flush draws out. I bet outpot of E8. UTG folds, EP raises to E32 and SB calls all-in for E27. So it's E24 to me to call. I have the nuts at this point, but I assume EP does as well. And there are so many re-draws he could have (of which I have none) that I'm reluctant to push in here. I called.

River was the Js. Not what I wanted to see. This completes the spade flush draw and puts out a possible higher straight with QT - a very possible hand if he had JT in there for the straight. I checked and EP bet E51 all-in. So it was E51 to call into a E95ish pot. How do you play it?


Martin

[Felonius_Monk]

I'd fold, hard to see you being ahead here often enough to call against two opponents. You need to be beating them BOTH about 20% of the time, and obviously you are (at best) tying with the guy who bet his last E51. So you're only going to get half a pot; your pot odds have just been halved. I think you are calling E51 to potentially split the E95 with the guy who bets the river; that means you're calling E51 to pick up E47, and that's if the all-in guy doesn't have you both beaten. I just can't see any way you're making any significant money from calling here, I think it's a pretty easy fold. All it needs is either player to have two weedy spades or a queen and you can't make a cent from this call. Even in the best case scenario, you'll get your last E51 bet back and pick up E47 from the all-in guy.

Monk
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