Poker Stars $25.00 Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 6 players -



BTN: $22.50

SB: $38.64

BB: $28.37

UTG: $27.73

MP: $29.91

Hero (CO): $27.00



Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is CO with 8 Q 7 J

UTG calls $0.25, MP raises to $1.10, Hero raises to $3.90, 3 folds, UTG calls $3.65, MP calls $2.80



Flop: ($12.05) 4 2 5 (3 players)

UTG checks, MP checks, Hero ???



UTG limp calls a lot preflop but I have not seen him make loose calls post flop so far in the session.

MP is a 40/29 with 1.8 aggression factor after only 35 hands. He strikes me as an aggressive regular who likes to raise and/or isolate pf then makes continuation bets on dry flops where the chances of him winning them is high.

I decided to 3bet with our hand since MP could be isolating the limper and we have a good hand to do it with. I didn't expect UTG to cold call the 3bet, but I still think his range is still wide here although now we can include dry AA* and KK* in them.

MP's range for calling could be more on suited rundown type hands and for sure this kind of player would 4bet his AA* and possibly some good KK* as well.

OK! On to the flop, we have a Q high FD + a gutshot for the nut straight... After all that talk, what do we do? Bet/get it in, or do we check behind? I'm not sure our diamond outs will be good, but they could be. But at the same time I feel like checking back is wrong somehow because we have only 2 SPR left and the pot is big.

My first instinct is to just pot it and make them fold their QQ, maybe KK and possibly their pairs + straight draws. But not really sure overall.