I was playing in a $2/$5 NL game in AC when this hand came up.

I started the hand with $250 on the button. Players from UTG, MP, and the CO limped in. I held pocket , and I called. The SB completed, the BB checked, and 6 players saw the flop with $30 in the pot.

The flop came . Everyone checked to me. With six players in the pot and both straight and flush draws presented, I bet $20 into the $30 pot with my set.

The SB, a loose and gambling type player, flat called, and I put him on a flush draw. The BB folded, and then the UTG player made a minimum check-raise to $40, thereby making the total pot $110. UTG was a slightly passive, slightly loose, and below average player.

It took a while for the action to get back to me, as the in-between players thought a bit before folding. I put the UTG player on a hand like AT or possibly T7s. I thought about, but rejected, that he had TT since (1) he opened the pot preflop with a limp instead of a raise and (2) he made only a minimum check-raise on the flop in a big multiway pot with multiple draws presented. As a result, I pushed all-in with my remaining $225 when it was my turn.

Both the SB and the UTG called (leaving both with less than $50 each, so my bet was a big chunk of their stacks).

The SB held (for the nut flush draw), and the UTG held (for the top set). A spade came on the turn, and the SB took the pot.

Anyone think my play was way too aggressive here? Sometimes I think that I should just called the checkraise and see what happened with the betting on the turn depending on what card fell.

no.

Originally Posted by Beavis68

no.

What he said.

If you flop a set and don't lose a lot of money, you did something wrong

Originally Posted by mxp2004

Anyone think my play was way too aggressive here? Sometimes I think that I should just called the checkraise and see what happened with the betting on the turn depending on what card fell.

No way man.. u had a set, u have to bet to protect it. ur play here was perfectly fine. Never in a million years would i doubt a set being the best hand on a flop like that.

Thanks. I second-guess myself a lot and felt in hindsight that I should not have been so quick to reject being in a set-over-set situation, and that's the read where I felt I went wrong in this case (even though the guy with the flush draw won). The check-raise was a little unusual for this somewhat passive player, and I wondered afterward if it should have caused me to slow down. If I had picked up on the red flag, I wouldn't have lost my whole stack when the flush materialized on the turn.