[sahala]

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A while later, I raise PF with 99 and he calls. 3-[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] flop, something like AJ9, he goes all-in. He has me covered, so it's all my chips if I want to stick with my set. Based on the crazy plays he's been pulling, I strongly suspect he has a pair at best. (He did, however, later on pull the same maneuver on someone else and actually show down a flush.)

Do you call here because he's a maniac, or avoid him in case it's the time he really flopped a flush?


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Were you really convinced he flopped a flush, or that he had an overset?

It sounds like his aggressive play got the best of you.

Do you have a complete hand history for this? It's hard to evaluate a line without knowing blind sizes, button placement, how many people left, and stack sizes. I can only guess that you probably had the best hand on the flop. Maybe it's a leak but another has to really convince me that my set is beaten and that I should fold. For every time that I've been beaten by an overset, flush, or straight I've taken down a ton of big pots against someone pushing all in with TPTK trying to stamp out a draw.