How far to go with top pair in 1v1 situation 200NL

[pokerjoker]

Not much is known about villan. I do not have enough hands from PT for it to really influence me, but so far he seems like about an average player. I have raised $4-6 from sb with pretty much any hand.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ BB (7 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

CO ($227.22)
Button ($213.70)
Hero ($435.40)
BB ($222.80)
UTG ($56.55)
MP1 ($188)
MP2 ($679.58)

Preflop: Hero is SB with T/images/graemlins/heart.gif, K/images/graemlins/diamond.gif. Hero posts a blind of $1.
<font color="#666666">5 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero (poster) raises to $3</font>, BB calls $2.

Flop: ($8) 6/images/graemlins/heart.gif, T/images/graemlins/club.gif, 8/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $5</font>, <font color="#CC3333">BB raises to $20</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $40</font>, BB calls $20.

Turn: ($88) 7/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">BB bets $85</font>, Hero folds.

I guess handling the raise to $20 was the toughest part. The $85 seemed like a pretty clear fold, comments?

[pokerjoker]

BUMP
Cmon someone reply....i didnt [censored] up THAT bad riiight?

[Ghazban]

What was your reasoning behind the 3bet laying 2.8:1 odds? Do you really think he's folding a hand he felt strong enough to pot raise to your tiny reraise?

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I guess handling the raise to $20 was the toughest part. The $85 seemed like a pretty clear fold, comments?

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I like a stop and go.

Call the flop raise, lead for 2/3 pot on pretty much any turn card.

If he calls or raises, you're out.

As Ghazban pointed out, your raise on the flop does nothing but build a pot and give you no information.

[pokerjoker]

Yeah...I think I messed this hand up...Im just not quite sure exactly how to fix it.

There were so many draws out there, I figured he could be on one of those....him having a 10 with a worse kicker is a possibility too. I suppose I either should have reraised to $60 or just folded to the $20? Also I should have raised pot in my 1st raise....but given my action how would you handle his $20 reraise?

[Ghazban]

My short answer is that you shouldn't get involved in sticky situations like this without a read. You say you don't have much of a read but then you say he could have one of the draws on board. Why do you think this? Have you seen him raise draws before? Most non-2+2ers are pretty passive with draws at this level (though some are total maniacs-- they tend to stick out, though). If you haven't seen him play a draw aggressively before, I'd discount the likelihood that he's doing it now and just fold to his pot raise on the flop. You might let him outplay you with JT/QT/air this hand but I don't think you can win if a lot of money goes into the pot.