Double Gutshot

[Vinterriket]

Based on the size of my stack, what play would you recommend throughout the rest of this hand?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t50 (7 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

MP2 (t3880)
CO (t275)
Button (t2060)
SB (t3135)
Hero (t805)
UTG (t1675)
MP1 (t1330)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 5, J.
UTG calls t50, 4 folds, SB completes, Hero checks.

Flop: (t150) 7, 9, 8 (3 players)

[A10Chief]

What did the SB do after the flop?

[Vinterriket]

SB checked.

UTG has been very loose, limping with anything suited, etc.

How has UTG been playing postflop, more importantly? Aggressive/Passive?

[mcatdog]

You shouldn't be thinking about this hand as a double gutshot. A six is pretty much worthless to you because you'd have the bottom end of the straight and be beaten by any ten. The only way you have a valuable hand is if a ten hits the board, therefore your hand should just be thought of as a gutshot and you should fold if anyone makes a decent-sized bet. Also, if you make your straight, no one is going to pay you off as it will be blatantly obvious that you have a straight.

For example if you had 98 and the flop was J75 your hand would be worth a lot more because both of your straight cards give you the nuts and your hand is more disguised.

[Vinterriket]

UTG has been a calling station

I imagine it would have been best then to just try to see free cards and fold to a decent bet.

I made a small 1/3 pot bet on the flop just to get information and as predicted the calling station called (obv) and SB folded.

Turn was a 2, we both checked.

River was a 6 giving me the goober straight, i bet half my stack and villain just calls with TT for a ten high straight.

[Scuba Chuck]

I like check. How'd I do?

[Rockymv]

It's early and the pot's too small to go crazy with this hand. Check and fold to anything more than a minbet.