Moderately Deeped Stacked PP 1/2 6max Hand for Comment

[passion]

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $1/2 (6 max, 5 handed) converter

BB ($320.95)
UTG ($100)
MP ($94.85)
Button ($72.15)
Hero ($330.1)

Preflop: Hero is SB with A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. UTG posts a blind of $2. Hero posts a blind of $1.
UTG (poster) checks, MP calls $2, Hero (poster) completes, BB checks.

Flop: ($8) 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(5 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets $7</font>, <font color="#CC3333">BB raises to $14</font>, UTG folds, MP folds, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $50</font>, BB calls $36.

Turn: ($108) 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>

What should my play be?

BB has VP$IP=54%, PFR%=17

Passion

[soah]

Why did you reraise the flop if you have no plan for a safe turn card?

You've given us no useful information on your opponent. He was the BB in an unraised pot. His VP$IP is meaningless here. What we need is information about his postflop play.

[iceman5]

If he raises 17% of his hands, then I would have to assume he would raise AJ and just about any pair vs the SB.

I think your hand is good and I would bet the pot. (or 3/4 pot)

[Raven]

what do you think of a bet in the 65$ range so he wont have the odds for a flush draw and Its still not that big so he could call with a pair of aces ? If he raise again I would tend to a fold also.

[passion]

In hindsight I think that leading at the turn with a bet somewhere between $65 and $100 would be the best play. This is not what I did. I checked the turn, Villian bet $25, and I (check)raised to $100 (making it $75 to go for him). He folded.

In this particular instance my table image paid dividens. Up to this point I was pretty frisky post-flop, making plays at a lot pots and putting a lot of money in play (my post flop aggression for the session of 128 hands was 7). A few times the table played back at me by re-raising my flop raises and river bluffs. In this case I think Villian thought that when I checked turn, my flop re-raises was just a play, not necessarily representative of a real holding. Anyway (and fortunately) he didn't take the free card.

Passion