I no longer like my hand

#Game No : 2461453640
***** Hand History for Game 2461453640 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $20 Buy-in + $2 Entry Fee Trny:14457977 Level:1 Blinds(10/15) - Monday, August 01, 18:42:20 EDT 2005
Table Table 13974 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: acardone ( $345 )
Seat 2: poop4sale ( $775 )
Seat 3: rcmartin ( $785 )
Seat 4: jj2gal ( $795 )
Seat 5: Scotchwater ( $785 )
Seat 6: hero ( $770 )
Seat 7: STLRFAN13 ( $785 )
Seat 8: crappygeorge ( $425 )
Seat 9: Dubbs124 ( $1865 )
Seat 10: xRMJx ( $670 )
Trny:14457977 Level:1
Blinds(10/15)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to hero [ Js Jh ]
Scotchwater folds.
<font color="blue"> hero raises [60]. </font>
STLRFAN13 folds.
crappygeorge calls [60].
Dubbs124 folds.
xRMJx folds.
acardone folds.
poop4sale folds.
<font color="red"> rcmartin raises [440] </font>
jj2gal folds.
hero?

Do I give the guy respect for his raise? he seems to be aiming it right at the shortstacked coldcaller

Tough one. It is a VERY close decision, and folding would be a good play also. However, I push. Then again, maybe I suck. Lets see what everyone else thinks [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

This hand is very situational, and any reply is debatable.

[ZeroPointMachine]

The question is: why would he "aim" his raise at the short stack. He has pot committed himself if you go over the top. My experience is that this raise is usually AA and he want's the short stack to put all his chips in with AK/any PP before he gets to see the flop and changes his mind. He can also hope that if short stack calls you fall in love with the big pot and come along too.

[Freudian]

I'd push. At the 22s people get very horny with AA-QQ and generally don't massively overbet. I think you are a favourite way too often for you to lay it down. I see people make these bets with A4s all the time. Of course I have some kind of read that helps me call/push here, even if it only is a PT read it helps.

[MegaBet]

POOOOOOOOOOSH!