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Playing Three-Flushes

1. What are four things to consider in determining how and whether to play your starting three-flush?
A. What your position is.
B. What your door card is.
C. How many of your cards are out.
D. How high your cards are.

2. If you have a three-flush and none of your suit is out, is your hand playable?
It almost always is, unless you have three small cards and it is three bets to you, or two high cards raise and reraise.

3. Example?
You hold 9♣ 2♣ 4♣ and no other clubs are showing. This hand is usually playable, unless one of the two exceptions just mentioned is applicable.

4. What if three or more of your suit are out?
Your three-flush is just about always unplayable.

5. What are the exceptions?
The hand can be played as an ante steal, or if it has value other than the three-flush aspect.

6. What can give a three-flush additional value?
A possible straight draw or high cards.

7. Give an example of a totally worthless hand.
You have T♦ 5♦ 2♦ and there are three diamonds out, as well as a ten and a five out.

8. If two of your suit were out, but no tens, fives, or deuces, is it worth playing?
The hand becomes barely playable as long as it doesn’t cost too much.

9. When is this hand unplayable?
If you think you may be heads-up multiway against a high pair.

10. If your cards are completely live, you are heads-up against a raiser, and your three-flush contain all small cards, should you fold?
You might want to fold, especially if you are against a good player.

11. But What if the raiser may not have anything?
It is clearly at least a call.

12. What if almost all the tens, fives, and deuces are gone, but your flush cards are completely live?
You usually should play in multiway pot.

13. You are the first one in and you have a three-flush with a high card showing. What do you do?
You should usually, but not always, enter the pot with a raise.

14. Suppose you hold a big straight flush draw such as A♠ K♠ J♠ . How should you play?
You probably want to raise so that you can narrow the field in case you make a high pair.

15. What if you don’t raise, or if you can’t thin the field?
Having a lot of opponents when you hold this hand is also good.

16. suppose you have a high three-flush with straight flush potential. How do you play if you are first one in?
Normally raise only if there is no more than one card higher behind you.

17. What about a small three-card straight flush?
You should not raise unless a few players are already in.

18. What if you have a three-flush with one card higher than the raiser’s door card?
Then you should always at least call, unless your hand is not very live.

19. If you have a three-flush, and two big cards ahead of you raise and reraise, when can you play?
You can play only if you have at least one card higher than the two big cards.

20. Example?
A ten raises, a queen reraises, and you have K♣ 2♣ J♣ . Since you hold a king, go ahead and play as long as your cards are live.

21. Suppose there is just a raise and a call?
Then you can play any three-flush if your cards are live.

22. What if your three-flush is small and two of your suit are out?

You usually should throw your hand away.

23. Suppose there has just called the bring-in. when is it correct to raise with a three-flush?
When you have two overcards and at lest a medium card card up.

24. What if you only have one overcard?
It may be right to raise, particularly if it is an ace or a king.

25. Example?
You have K♥ Q♥ 8♥ and someone has limped in with a ten up.

26. What if the Q♥ was a small heart instead?
It still might be correct to raise in an attempt to get heads-up.

27. What if someone has already raised, you have two overcards, and one of them is up?
You can go ahead and reraise.