In need of an exit strategy. Please help.

[damn_river]

5 players, 100 NL, $.5/$1, agressive, semi-loose game

on the button with ~$114 and aa. with one limper, i raise to $4. sb (has $164) raises to $6.5. folds back to me. i raise to $40. sb calls. flop is Ts 3c Ks. sb goes all in.
call or fold?
dR

[xorbie]

Ouch. FWIW I think you are splitting somewhat often here.

[damn_river]

first of all, thanks for ur comment. So u are saying i should call?
dR

[xorbie]

I'm sure given that you posted it that he had KK. But think about it this way. He could be a donk with AK. He could have AA. He could be trying to push out AA with QQ. I probably call just because he's making a mistake on the hand by calling the raise to $40.

[damn_river]

u got it all right. he had kk, i called. the mistake was made by him though by calling the $40 raise in the first place though, huh. thanks a lot. I'm assumming he would've been better off folding the KK preflop or reraising all in. If you were him, what would your play have been facing the reraise to $40?

dR

[xorbie]

I think his call is fine against a random opponent, it's just obviously wrong against you (given that you probably usually have AA here).

[damn_river]

ah, thanks again. i wish u all the pocket aces in the world.
dR

[fuzzbox]

Call - its too strange a line for me to not pay KK off.

[wtfsvi]

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I probably call just because he's making a mistake on the hand by calling the raise to $40.

[/ QUOTE ] This is not a valid reason to call.

I actually fold this against most small stakes oponents. (The ones that won't reraise (especially min-reraise) preflop without AA-QQ, and won't push this flop with QQ. And don't pay attention to the fact that I fold more than more than them.)

[xorbie]

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I probably call just because he's making a mistake on the hand by calling the raise to $40.

[/ QUOTE ] This is not a valid reason to call.

I actually fold this against most small stakes oponents. (The ones that won't reraise (especially min-reraise) preflop without AA-QQ, and won't push this flop with QQ. And don't pay attention to the fact that I fold more than more than them.)

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I disagree that this isn't a valid reason. If you fold here, you're letting villain play the hand less poorly, because you are letting him push you off what could be the best hand just because a scare card flops. What if it's Q high and he open pushes? Once you put that $40 in on the flop you absofuckinglutely have got to put the rest in after. If he has KK, oh well. If he's calling that $40 knowing we have AA (which he must for his open push to make any sense) then he sucks enough to call that $40 with AK.