Poker In Vegas - To Think or Not To Think

[michiganlaw]

Wow! That sums up my experience this past weekend in Vegas, playing mostly low-limit Hold'em. I played $2/$4, $3/$6 and $4/8 at the Imperial Palace, Aladdin, the Plaza (downtown), Binion's and got Sam Farha's autograph at the Bellagio.

I was expecting much tougher competition than I received. These horrid players get you to overthink hands, laydown hands on crazy stone-cold bluffs, then trap you with monsters not even knowing they had a monster (had a guy beat my QQ's with AK when a K hit the turn, and he didn't bet turn or river saying he thought he had AQ, instead of AK!).

So, I started overthinking hands...case in point below.

Live $3/$6 at the Imperial Palace (damn good $3/hr comp rate!!)

Hero is in MP with 2 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]2 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. 3 callers, UTG, UTG+1 and the Button.

Flop:
A [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]2 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]8 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
UTG leads, UTG + 1 raises to $6, Hero re-raises to $9, button folds, UTG folds, UTG+1 caps, Hero calls.

Turn: 10 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
UTG bets $6, Hero raises $12, UTG re-raises to $18, Hero ....

What does the Hero do? Comments appreciated?