[fnord_too]

Why are you raising a big split pair into the ace of a player you don't know? Don't do this. Once you know them, and the table, it may or may not be ok, but if it is ok it is usually only marginally so. Big pairs are big traps in stud 8, and you would not be giving up too much if you always mucked them. If you play them, you especially don't want to play against an ace, and you don't want to play against more than two opponents going low (really one, but two is marginal, three is just awful IMO).

Here's a secret, sometimes, even if you know there is a high probability that your opponent is being over aggressive, the correct play is still to fold. This comes up all the time in all games, and is one of the reasons aggresiveness and isolation plays are so powerful.