Villan in the 50 hands i have played with him has been pretty passive. I have the table covered.

I am dealt UTG and limp in. A couple of callers and the blinds come along.

Pot = $1.25
Flop =

Both blinds check and I bet $1. cold called by UTG +1 . Villan raises to $3. SB cold calls the raise. BB folds. I reraise to $7 to see where I am and who is still willing to play. UTG +1 folds. Villan reraises me all-in for like $14 more. SB calls the reraise which puts him all in as well.

What is your play? I hate laying down trips, b/c they are where I make all of my money, but is this one instance....facing two all ins and the aggressor in this situation having been very passive until now in the 50 hands I had played with him....where I should have laid it down?

-twelver

One of them likes their A8 and the other is chasing his flush draw. You gotta call it and hope to triple up. If you run up against 88 or 66, well that's tough, but otherwise I like your hand. You have a limped high pocket pair, like AA or KK, dominated.

Results?

One of them has the straight and you have outs. The other one has a big draw or two pair and you're ahead. Three-way pot with 7 and then 10 outs to win the hand you have odds to be all-in here.

If it's set over set that's fine. Take your lumps and move on.

If the board were [6h][5h] and you only have one opponent, you KNOW they have a straight or a flush and you don't have the odds to catch your boat (and he might even catch a straight flush to beat your boat). In that case I'm folding my set on the flop to serious action. Anything short of that, at $25 NL, I'm not folding a set on the flop, period.

If one of them has the straight, and the other has something like a small over pair you have close enough for me odds to chase to your boat on the flop as it looks like you are getting at least 3.5:1 by my monkey memory math of the pot being described.

Call hope it worked out for the best. Set over set happens, when it happens to me I just think, "worse things happen to better people." and move on If your read here is screaming set based on your past hour of play with these guys, you can safely fold, otherwise you are going to showdown every single time.

I had a similiar low card ragged flop where UTG could have held the straight or bigger set. He plays the kind of suited junk that would straight those rags, but went ahead and got all the money in the middle with bottom set. It turned out he had top two nines and sevens.

Well I called. The raiser had for the straight and a flush draw and the other caller had for the higher trips. But it was the right play. Just wanted to get you all's opinions.

-twelver

So you didn't river your 1-outer for the Quad and triple up?