A9s, Flop comes 9 high, biggish pot

[belloc]

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There is a way to protect your hand on this flop. In your spot, I would've bet into the pre-flop raiser because he will most likely raise and face the field with 2 bets cold. He will raise AK or AQ here often enough for this play to work, especially since he's LAG.

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Good, makes perfect sense. Though, doesn't it depend on a much better read on him than I had? I had maybe 15 hands, and he had played about 8 or 9 of them, raising maybe 6 of those preflop. I've gotta be fairly sure of his raising behind me to think that this will protect, no?

[ecooke]

I feel pretty meh about this. Assuming the play works, the pot odds will only be reduced to 8:1 with strong implied odds (courtesy of the LAG). Even a gutshot may be able to correctly stick around.
That said, I still think waiting until the Turn is a good line.