You're a Bunch of Factors

I was playing a cash game .50/.50 NL the other night, it's a regular game fro myself except a few new players.
About half way through the night get involved in a hand. Raise from second position to 3.50 (Semi tight, passive, very trivky player have alot for this player). Im next with [4h 4d] and i call, another 5 people call, so seven people to the flop. The flop was [Ah] [4c] [5d]. Very happy with that flop first set I'd hit in almost 3 weeks.
Small blind checks (Semi loose, Aggressive, solid ABC poker though) original raiser bets $9 I call, the small blind check raises to $45, Original raiser tanks and then shoves for $150+, puts me all in. I now have no idea what to do. Ended up calling all in, after being so so close to folding. I had the small blind on either [2s 3h] or A 5 hopefully and the original raiser on A K.
We show our cards small blind has 2 3 off and raiser has [As Ks] suited.
2 3 holds and wins the pot.
In this situation could you fold?

the clue here is you think both of them are good players.

what would you have them on that you beat? probably AK is about it really, but more likely AA or 55 or unfortunately 23.

against 1 player, probably never folding, agaisnt 2 to act before you, the alarm bells should be ringing - but still very tough to fold

It's always hard to fold a set, but yeah bottom set on that flop was still losing to 2 other very possible sets or a straight. I'd probably have thought I was losing to a better set and disregarded the straight but the result might have been the same (flip a coin and hold my breath they had 2 pair).

I guess it depends on how confident you were on what you put your opponents on.

Snapple wrote:I was playing a cash game .50/.50 NL the other night,

Huh? Don't you mean .50/1?

I was going to add more to this, but benny the cunt and Pete have already covered what I was going to say. The check raise from SB definitely indicated strength. You can disregard AA though, no reraise (after 5 callers) preflop. 55 is very possible, as is A4/A5. Hard to fold, don't know if I could've done it.

Don't they have $1/$1 tables at the Cas? U can have SB & BB the same amount.

Bacon wrote:Don't they have $1/$1 tables at the Cas?

They have $1/$2, $2/$3 & $5/$5.

Bacon wrote: U can have SB & BB the same amount.

Most home games I play are $.50/$.50 or $.50/$1. Cash games regularly have the same blinds for small & big.

Caleb Rybalka wrote:Most home games I play are $.50/$.50 or $.50/$1. Cash games regularly have the same blinds for small & big.

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