Re: I wish I could play handsome poker.
My one idea here would be that it might be better to call the fourth bet on the flop just to try and hit a 9 on the turn. Your opponent very clearly has something like A4 (maybe 10 4, but I'll take my chances against 44 or 10 10)... and you will get at the very minimum three big bets if your 9 hits on the turn. With the 7 small bet already in on the flop and the 3 pre-flop, plus the three big bets on the turn and the river (and perhaps a bunch more if your opponent starts firing...) a call of the fourth bet wouldn't be that bad.
Mathematically, a call here is not correct, but not horrible, and there may by a lot to gain psychologically by a) not folding and giving the impression that you can be pushed around and/or think to hard; and b) really annoying your opponent if you suck out on him badly on the turn (particularly considering he is already tilting).
So this might be a valuable moment to play some "bad poker," particularly in a live game.
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