Q&A #57: Strong Draw in No Limit with Short Stack

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I’m back from my Mardi Gras vacation. If you haven’t done so since the hurricane, I urge you to take a trip to New Orleans. The great stuff about New Orleans – food, music, and atmosphere – is all still great. But much of the city is still dark and vacant, struggling to come back. It’s worth going for the great fun you can have there and to better understand the enormous scale of the calamity. And the New Orleans economy can definitely use the tourist money.

It’s my job today to do a final review of the Professional No Limit Hold ‘em: Volume 1 (by Matt Flynn, Sunny Mehta, and me) manuscript. We send it to 2+2 for edits and publishing in just a couple of days. So I’ll do another quickie Q&A today to save some time.

jamleeco asks,

Live NL full-ring game – Strong draw on the flop

Hi Ed. Could use some help with my thought processes again. I call on the button with 7 8 after 4 limpers, blinds come along. The flop comes A 9 6 . Both blinds check, utg bets 3xbb and all 3 other limpers call.

I have 50bb’s and most everyone has me covered. There are now 19 bb’s in the pot. I started to shove it all in and then thought, the blinds both look like they are going to call. If I hit at this table ( obviously, 7 handed is loose game) especially a non-heart 5 or T I am going to get paid off huge and if it hits on the turn I will probably get some action from more than one even if only one ends up all in with me.

I called. Sb folded, Bb raised 30 more bb’s so natch I now went all in. Was I too greedy? Should I have gone all in or made at least pot size raise when it came to me.

I think I should have pot-built raise if my stack was larger but with size of my stack in relation to pot didn’t think I would need to and wanted all the company I could get. Is this limit thinking ? ( the outcome would have been the same no matter what in this particular hand, but I want to be prepared for next time). What key factors should guide my decision here?

I think the most key factor is stack size.

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