Baby flush hits. Your next move here?

#Game No : 1108783098
***** Hand History for Game 1108783098 *****
$25 NL Hold'em - Wednesday, October 27, 19:19:01 EDT 2004
Table Home of the brave (Real Money)
Seat 7 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: ONOrm ( $29.2 )
Seat 2: rahulmelwani ( $21.75 )
Seat 3: NiceToMeetU ( $27.35 )
Seat 4: c3cil ( $25 )
Seat 5: Nuttypoolog ( $16.35 )
Seat 6: LimpLimp ( $23.75 )
Seat 9: m5555 ( $24 )
Seat 7: DrNoChance ( $23.5 )
Seat 8: supraorbital ( $28 )
Seat 10: Johnthestraw ( $6 )
supraorbital posts small blind [$0.25].
m5555 posts big blind [$0.5].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to DrNoChance [ 6h 7h ]
ONOrm folds.
rahulmelwani folds.
NiceToMeetU folds.
c3cil calls [$0.5].
Nuttypoolog folds.
LimpLimp calls [$0.5].
DrNoChance calls [$0.5].
supraorbital calls [$0.25].
m5555 checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kh, 8d, 2h ]
supraorbital checks.
Nuttypoolog: i thought you might want to know for next time
m5555 checks.
>You have options at Desert Rose Table!.
c3cil checks.
LimpLimp checks.
DrNoChance bets [$2].
supraorbital folds.
m5555 folds.
c3cil folds.
LimpLimp calls [$2].
>You have options at Desert Rose Table!.
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qh ]
LimpLimp checks.
c3cil: i will make sure to call next time ole pal
DrNoChance bets [$4].
LimpLimp raises [$8].
DrNoChance....?

He's representing that he made the flush too. Of course, he could have KQ (but why not bet the flop in that case?), a set, or be semi-bluffing with a high heart in his hand.

Call, raise, push, or fold? Go on to explain your reasoning and how you will respond to re-raises/river play/etc.

Thanks as always for feedback.

Push, don't give him a cheap redraw with a big heart, set or 2 pair. If he has a bigger flush, you're paying him off. With nearly half of his stack in already, I think he'll call here with a wide enough range of holdings.

Yeah, he probably pays me off on a set/2pr often enough to compensate for when he has a higher flush.

I considered calling, and check/calling the river.
This has the disadvantage of giving a big heart/2pr/set a chance to outdraw me. It has the advantage of possibly losing less to a better flush if he only value bets the river. It also has the advantage of inducing some bets from some worse hands that might have folded to a push.

But this is Party Poker, players are fishy, and there's worse hands out there that will probably call my push here than the flush. Perhaps calling + check/calling the river would be a reasonable play though against tougher competition as long as the pot isn't too big (so that giving a free card isn't such a huge mistake when you're ahead)?


For some stupid reason I re-raised (enough to deny proper odds to a chaser), but didn't push. He pushed, I was pot-committed, and I cried and called. He actually had 5h 4h :D

I should have just pushed if I was going to re-raise, since anything that calls the re-raise is probably calling the push (there's a small chance that the push folds out some weaker hands, but I doubt it at this level).

Thanks for the feedback as always, Fnord.