[grandgnu]

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Given your play, he might think his hand is better against you than it was. You're the one playing looser than you used to, so I might take a shot at you with that hand.

"and he should've known that his hand would need to catch to beat me" How loosely have you been playing? Maybe he DIDN'T know that. You don't say how big your stack is, and you've been "running over the table" so you can't have Aces every time.

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I hadn't been raising every hand or playing every hand. And I had shown down a lot of strong hands (A/A, A/J, other pocket pairs, etc)

When I say I was running over the table, I had them all figuring me out wrong. When they thought I was bluffing, I had a hand. When they thought I had a hand, I was bluffing, etc.

Post-flop I was picking off their bluffs and coming over the top of them and getting them to fold, and showing them my bottom pair. I was letting them know that I had strong reads and that their bluffs would be picked off against me.

We were only 6-handed, so you have to be a bit more aggressive anyway. But there's no way I'm folding any hand to him getting 4 to 1 odds to call and eliminate him on such a large pot. I think he just made a mistake when he was desperate, hoped his two cards were live and figured he could get lucky (which he did) and get back into the game.