Playing the 'Nuts' more Efficiently

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I felt I played this one really poorly. I'll explain my thoughts after each street: End Of Hand #99517159 Table #1991212 - Shooting Star Starting Hand #99517881 Last Hand #99517159 Game Type: Hold'em Limit Type: No Limit Table Type: Ring Money Type: REAL MONEY Blinds are now $0.25/$0.50 Button is at seat 10 Seat 1: AZREAL22 - $0 (away from table) Seat 2: onemountain - $57.25 Seat 3: KimiRaikkonen - $46.75 Seat 4: MingGinGusset - $71.58 Seat 5: FingersIan - $25.26 Seat 6: pkrpat - $36.93 Seat 7: DaveyBoy10 - $73.95 Seat 8: scoober222 - $29.98 Seat 9: pizdush - $30.03 Seat 10: LoneWolf001 - $71.70 Moving Button to seat 10 onemountain posts small blind ($0.25) KimiRaikkonen posts big blind ($0.50) Shuffling Deck Dealing Cards Dealing [Qs Ks] to KimiRaikkonen MingGinGusset folds FingersIan did not respond in time and is folded FingersIan folds pkrpat calls $0.50 DaveyBoy10 folds scoober222 folds pizdush calls $0.50 LoneWolf001 calls $0.50 onemountain folds KimiRaikkonen checks KQs good drawing hand, can see for free. No need to play OOP as you want to see flops with drawing hands and on PKR people can call with ATC Dealing Flop [Td As Jc] KimiRaikkonen checks pkrpat checks pizdush checks LoneWolf001 checks Being the first to act here, a check seems the best option IMO. Dealing Turn [8c] KimiRaikkonen bets $1.50 Can't check again and flush draw now out there, not to mention I might let someone with a gutshot get another free card. pkrpat folds pizdush raises to $6 LoneWolf001 calls $6 KimiRaikkonen raises to $15 At this point I am thinking 'All-in', but at the same I want to give someone the chance to hang themself by coming over the top. Tbh I'm not exactly considering there hands as much as I should but I'm convinced they don't have a set, save for perhaps trip 8s. LoneWolf's call here could suggest perhaps a King high flush draw, but I'm really not going through these thoughts at the time. I think this is my first error in this hand - I didn't raise enough. Input here would be good pizdush calls $15 LoneWolf001 calls $15 Dealing River [3c] KimiRaikkonen checks pizdush bets $14.53 (all-in) LoneWolf001 calls $14.53 KimiRaikkonen calls $14.53 Now this one seems even worse. The flush draw is possibly made so I just check hoping to show down. Piz pushes all-in and Lone just calls, so I'm happy enough to call here and be beat by the river flush as I'm getting I think 5-1 and so would only need to be ahead 20% of the time. (not sure what I'd do if he went all-in; probably call because I'm a donk at heart). Anyway, I can't help but feel that, flush on the river aside, at some point in this hand I need to get all my money in the pot. The fact that I'd probably call an all-in on the river means I should get all my money in there at some point anyway, so that the times I'm ahead I get paid off more to offset the times where I'm not good enough to lay the hand down. My biggest problems I think are that I'm looking to get paid off majorly too much to the point where I jeopardise me winning the hand, and not really considering the range of hands my opponents have. So, how would you play this, and what I'm more interested in, is what thought processes do you have at each junction of betting.

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Re: Playing the 'Nuts' more Efficiently You will have seen my thoughts on flopping the nut straight before and that is to push a lot if not all your money in, all-in if there is the flush draw on the flop (not in this situatiion) but you had to bet a lot, there will be callers because of the high cards on the board so i don't see a problem with it. $1.50 on the turn? Well, as i said on the flop a lot has to be bet, even more so now with the flush draw so all-in is the only option. The river is an easy call but out of frustration really due to the previous events. Maybe my advice is not the best help because you've seen me say it all before but i'll but my two penneth in anyway... :sad