Doh!

I thought I had the nuts till the river, wasn't really paying attention. Though I doubt I would have done much differently except maybe check calling the river. I really need to pay more attention. After this hand I stopped, and just play this one table.

Anyway, by the time it got to the river, I realized a straight was possible but I didn't put the BB on a str8 with his flop play.

PokerStars 0.50/1.00 Hold'em (5 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is MP with , .
1 fold, Hero raises, Button calls, 1 fold, BB 3-bets, Hero caps, Button calls $0.50 (All-In), BB calls.

Flop: (11.50 SB) , , (3 players, 1 all-in)
BB bets, Hero raises, BB 3-bets, Hero caps, BB calls.

Turn: (9.75 BB) (3 players, 1 all-in)
BB bets, Hero raises, BB 3-bets, Hero caps, BB calls.

River: (17.75 BB) (3 players, 1 all-in)
BB bets, Hero raises, BB 3-bets, Hero caps, BB calls.

Final Pot: 25.75 BB

Results in white below:
BB has 8d 6h (straight, eight high).
Hero has Jd Jc (three of a kind, jacks).
Button has Ks Qh (high card, king).
Outcome: BB wins 25.75 BB.

You didn't mention the BB was an over-aggressive maniac!
The pf raise to 3 bets told me he had a big pocket pair (although one of the most misplaced raises I see in Hold'em is the SB/BB re-raise with just over-cards like A-K or A-Q). Your capping the pf raise was kind of useless (although if I were the Button I probably would have folded - was that your intention?) and I doubt I would have capped with just a pocket pair of Jacks - calling the 3 bet re-raise mades best sense to me.
The flop bets confirms in my mind the BB has a big pocket pair Aces or Kings and that the Button is a moron - gawd bless them and their chips! At this point there is no way anyone could put the BB on a 8-6o based on the betting pattern. The fact that he pf and flop raised to 3 bets and called the cap to such a hand is both dumb (bless him too for he shall pay more than he get paid) and unreadable (Phil Hellmuth's "Jackal").
He got lucky and you got a bad beat - Except for capping the bets pf, I would have played the same.

+EV play.

heh, I just played the hand on auto-pilot.

People will often 3 bet with any ace, I'll cap 5 handed with JJ most days. Flopping the set and his flop action, I obviously didn't put him on a str8 draw.

Oh well it's a crazy game.....gotta love it

Originally Posted by Aces-o-8s

You didn't mention the BB was an over-aggressive maniac!
The pf raise to 3 bets told me he had a big pocket pair (although one of the most misplaced raises I see in Hold'em is the SB/BB re-raise with just over-cards like A-K or A-Q). Your capping the pf raise was kind of useless (although if I were the Button I probably would have folded - was that your intention?) and I doubt I would have capped with just a pocket pair of Jacks - calling the 3 bet re-raise mades best sense to me.
The flop bets confirms in my mind the BB has a big pocket pair Aces or Kings and that the Button is a moron - gawd bless them and their chips! At this point there is no way anyone could put the BB on a 8-6o based on the betting pattern. The fact that he pf and flop raised to 3 bets and called the cap to such a hand is both dumb (bless him too for he shall pay more than he get paid) and unreadable (Phil Hellmuth's "Jackal").
He got lucky and you got a bad beat - Except for capping the bets pf, I would have played the same.

I was fairly new to the table only 15 or so hands, I wasn't aware he was a Jackal at the time. It's guys like these that play short handed that create the greatest/most frustrating players of the them all...the calling stations.
So many players with 50% +VPIP and 0.5AF...god bless them. I really don't like to play maniacs, they can take a bite out of your buy-in fairly fast.