[taylormaas]

There’s situations to have you foot on the gas and situations to have your foot on the brake. Pre-flop and flop are situations for the gas, and turn is a situation for the brakes.

Preflop, we have a limp, a 3x raise and a call all in front of us. We’ll be out of position post flop, so we have a great opportunity here to raise to a ~1500 sizing and have very easy decisions post flop. If we take it down here, it’s still a +9 BB result for us.

Flop, now we are out of position and have to act first, I like the game plan of checking and raising over any bets on the flop. It’s a generally disconnected board, but still one with draws available. When we see a bet and a call in front of us, this is a fist pump raise spot. There’s somewhere around 20 BBs in the middle and there’s a lot of turn cards that will hurt our action or hurt our equity. Time to effectively put the other players all-in and run our equity.

Turn, when we reach this part of the decision tree, ugh idk. All those cards that I mention could come on the turn and the 5d is one of the worst (maybe the Kd is the worst). I hate that we would have to be in a 3-way pot here. EastCoast very much has played this hand like a flush draw, which just came in. Likewise, when Stevetraps has been dormant the whole hand but now wakes up with a jam on the turn, what would they be doing this with? And although 5’s aren’t very common in any of our 3 opponents ranges, they do still exist. We’re essentially hoping both of our opponents have hands like KQ/QJ/QT/JT in this spot and never a flush and never a 5. I’d reluctantly fold here.