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Am i meant to fold in this spot?!

port30port30 Member Posts: 8
edited July 2015 in Strategy
Playing a live cash game at my local casino, game is extremely soft; no good players at all very simple poker ABC, waiting until you've got a hand and value bet them to shreds.  They all massively over value hands. 
Fairly deepstacked table; before the hand i have about £200
Blinds are 1/1 
There is a straddle and a re-straddle; i'm in the SB with 7s 5s, it gets called all the way round to me making the pot around 20 pounds, i call for 3, BB calls, and the initial straddle calls and the re-straddle checks.

We go 7 ways to the flop, the pot is £28

Flop comes 

3s 4s 5d

Pretty insane flop for my hand, i check; goes round to the player in seat 1 whose playing about 150 behind, he leads for £11, he gets flatted by seat 2.  Both players have been losing all night and are over valuing pairs massively.  It folds round to me and i opt to re-raise to £35, i get a flat from seat 1 and seat 2 pushes all in for about £230, so the pot is about 340, i've got around 170 left behind.  i'm very confident that seat 1 is going to call behind me as he doesn't let go of hands and i figure he's got some kind of 6 as he just flats my reraise.  With seat 1's stack going into the pot i figure the pot is about 500 and i've got to put 170 in to win it, so even against a hand like 76 here i'm still getting a good price to call.  
I end up calling, seat 1 like predicted calls making the pot like 680.
Seat 1 has 5h 2s
Seat 2 has 7d 7h 

Turn and river both brick and seat 2 takes the hand

Should i be finding a fold here?
I figure the only hands that have me absolutely crushed are hands like As 5s, as neither villain can have 6s7s. 
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  • LARSON7LARSON7 Member Posts: 4,491
    edited June 2015
    Wager all them chips!
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  • Matt237Matt237 Member Posts: 1,785
    edited June 2015
    No. Villain can't have A5ss either ;-)
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  • BigHawk89BigHawk89 Member Posts: 627
    edited June 2015
    As you described the table as pretty bad and paying off with any piece I think we can just call the flop in position. We don't really wanna be flipping getting it in slight favourite if we have a edge on the table. If we are playing more shallow I do like a raise on the flop to either get it in or jam most turns.
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  • yesboiii13yesboiii13 Member Posts: 1
    edited July 2015
    You should never be making that play in the first place in all honesty. Flatting is completely the right move on the flop. Although your question is 'in the certain spot' - so in regards to that the first thing you have to take into account is that it was a massive multi-way pot. There are all kinds of hands that, such as your suited connector's and small pairs, can make big hands. No matter how bad you feel someone is at poker, that does not mean they can't make a massive hand. You are comfortably losing to a set there or the nut straight as you mentioned and also a whole range of higher spades. It is by no means a terrible call and you of course to do have outs, but the right play would probably be a fold due to that aswell as the deep stacks. You want to be making those plays with made hands that you are comfortable with (in the scenario you described and the player types). I would not beat myself up about it, all you can do is learn from your mistake of raising on the flop.
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