[Joe Tall]

First, for the record, I haven't read your follow up yet.

I think this player is somewhat likely to 3-bet both with a better hand and a semi-bluff (hoping I lay down my overpair)

I think you are giving him too much credit. Often, players as you speak, will use such a Stop-n-Go line as they out think themselves. The usually have a A8s, or 99 (will he raise the 99 after limpers here?) and they put a player like yourself on a big [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]-over. They know you are capable of raising many hands on the button. They know you are capable of raising this flop w/big diamond, clean-up, knock out raises. So when no- [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], no-broadway comes on the turn. They think, bet, he's calling cause he's drawing. They pride themselves in a bet like this, they have thought themselves right into it.

That's what I've seen often enough and, when I was learning to think up levels, I would often be that player. I'm still learning, so maybe this another lesson for me but that's where I stand.

-Joe Tall