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You are seated in a full ring $1/2 NL table. Most of the table limps in and you look down at K
Q
on the button. Feeling that you will get too many callers if you raise, you decide to call and play the flop. To your delight the flop comes J
10
9
, giving you the nut straight. A player in middle position opens the pot for a $10 bet and the player on his right left to $20. With two diamonds on the board and a few other players behind you, you bump it up to $50. The small blind then goes all-in for $300! Action folds to the player who raised to $20, who comes over the top for $360!
You have both players covered. What do you do?
Call.
This is obviously a must call situation with the nuts, but that does not mean you shouldn't fear K
Q
. This is a real possibility and the re-draw should scare you. You are relatively sure at least one of your opponents has KQ as well, but since this is a low limit game, it is entirely possible that one of the players that is all-in has a worse straight, a set or a diamond flush draw. Call with the nuts and hope that no one is free rolling with your money in the pot.
I once read an article by Todd Brunson about folding the nuts after the flop in fear of the re-draw in an OMAHA tournament, but if anyone can think of a situation in hold'em where it would be appropriate, post it in the Wise Hand Forums.
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