Quote Originally Posted by miracleriver
Quote Originally Posted by pankfish
Yeah, once MP1 raises you don't have any fold equity and your ace probably isn't an out. c/r is a better line here than donk/3bet.
That actually makes a lot of sense. If I take the c/r line and get reraise all-in, it becomes a simple pot odds problem, right? In that case, should I count any of the remaining aces as out?
One way of dealing with "questionable" outs is to discount them, in this case maybe count one additional out for the 3 aces.

I don't see much wrong in this hand, especially if you had a read on BB. I often fold this preflop, but ATs holds up well multiway. You do have to worry about being dominated if the flush outs don't hit.

The flop action is crazy - typical 5nl action, and without reads its difficult to know where you're at. Someone could have middle pair no kicker or a set. You probably had less fold equity than you thought, like pankfish said. But just check/calling is tough in a 3-way pot since you don't know how many raises will end up getting fired.

All in all, it's a decent line to take. One very good thing about this hand is that you didn't get results oriented. You obviously won the hand, but you're still thinking "was this the right way to play it?" That's hard to do sometimes for noobies. So nice job there.

I think these difficulties on the flop are indicative of what redzilla was saying. If you flat call with mediocre hands from the blinds, you're going to face some tough situations postflop. All in all, you had outs to the nuts. Laying it down postflop would have been a much bigger mistake than any of the small ones you made.