[A.M.P]

Playing a ladder tournie as I write but my initial assesment of the situation would be to first work out how many outs you had. Now, having missed the flush draw you're just going for the straight, which is open ended and has 8 outs.

You can now see 4 cards on the board and the two in your hand, leaving 46 unseen. Therefore the pots odds to make your "gamble" on the river worthwhile are (46-8/8) = roughly 4 to one.

Now, onto the scenarios. If the initial pot before raising was $6 and everyone folds to you after a $15 raise I'd fold.

Scenario Two. Total pot =$18 bucks. I'm only getting a 2.1 payout so again I'd fold.

So, doing the rest in my head using the same logic I'd call 3,4,6 and fold 5.

Actually, I hope I've got these wrong because I've just finished fourth and been knocked out!!!!

AMP