Straight-flush draw in early position multiway

Game type: $200 NL
Your image: Tight
Your hand: 5♦6♦

The setup: Player raises to $6 and Player C calls. You call in the SB with 5♦6♦ and the BB calls as well. The flop brings you a nice draw:

4♦7♦K♥

How should you play the draw?

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Mary

I am betting 12 (half the pot). I think that this will hold the bets on whomever is holding the King and the seven (and I feel confident at least one is out there. I want to keep as many in the hand as possible as cheap as possible. I would like there to be a good size pot out there when I hit my straight or my flush. I am folding to a bets on paired board or fourth diamond.

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Frank

I would check here. Although you have a very good draw, you have to remember that it is just a draw. If you come out betting then someone with a hand like Ace King will probably reraise you and make it very exepensive to try and hit your draw. By seeing how other players react first, you can determine what they are holding, and possibly if someone is holding a higher flush draw. I like the checkraise here to try and isolate yourself against a player holding a King, and possibly knock out a better drawing hand.

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Erik

Frank, why would you want to isolate yourself against a player holding a K? K is not going anywhere, and if anything if you do hit your draw you’d want to get paid off by multiple people.

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Pags

Checking is good here if you expect your opponent to be aggressive…against tight players I would suggest the $12 raise to increase the pot equity and to give them the right odds to call a larger bet on the river if you hit.

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