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Busted Flush draw
I have several questions reguarding the play of a flush draw on the flop, turn, and the river against an aggressive opponent who regularly uses PSB's as his main weapon.
So lets say that in a game, there's a raise3-4x bet raise, and you're the only caller with KsQs.
In this situation the As 2s 7h hits. This tells us quite a few things. A runner runner straight is possible, and on the flop worth one out, plus your flush draw, drawing to a king or queen is stupid since the ace covers them as outs. Right now you have 10 outs. Your opponent makes a pot sized bet. Lets say that there is 8.5 bets in the pot so he bets 8.5 bets and we both have a full buy in. Obviously you have to call the flop.
Is there ever a case for raising here? Does the free card play raise work in NL?? I know if I had an over I'm supposed to get it all in, but with 2 unders and a flush draw as my only hope.. what do I do?
Flop comes and misses you again (remember we're busting ldo). Your opponet bets again, makes a PSB. This is where things get dicey. He's now betting 24bets, only has 68 bets left, I'm only winning 20% of the time here. I barely have odds and that's only if I stack him. I have 3 options, and all 3 seem viable depending on reads, but how often are you gonna call to the river, complete an obvious flush and end up with all of your opponents chips anyway? Raising may be viable as a semi-bluff. But I have a really hard time sticking a good anount of money in right here when it seems my opponent has about 3% fold equity. It may buy me a free river, but I'm only gonna have like 25bets anyway.
So I call, and what do you know, the river blanks again. The only way I win is if my opponent folds, and the board isn't very dangerous. How often should I be shoving a busted flush draw? Should I even be in this situation?
I love flushes, but they never seem to get paid off. Is there a better way to think about this situation?
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