(rock) AA (hardplace)

[Marlow]

In a 6-max 1.5/3 game on Prima last night I’m trying to play a variety of styles. Usually, I’m pretty TAG (24/12), but I’ve been playing around with LAG (35/16) and even superaggressive (70/25) play. I won about 2.5 buyins with the superagg style, but when this hand came up, I’d shifted back into TAG. I’d been mostly folding for about 15 minutes.

Two limpers to me, and I raise it up to 16 with AA. All fold to the guy on my immediate right. This villain is a pretty good TAG player. I have never seen him get out of hand, but he’s not afraid to put his chips in the middle when he suspects he’s ahead. I respect his play and try to not get involved with him without good values. He has about 450, and I’ve got him covered.

Pot = $40ish

Flop – 7 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 6 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 5 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

Villian bets out $40. He started doing this when I was in superagg mode as a way of building pots that he thought he could win. I stacked him once when he did this. I know that I will not get any free cards or see a cheap showdown. I have no idea if he just flopped a flush draw (I don’t have A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]), a set, or the nut str8. It’s also possible that he’s got something like 88 or 99. All are possible. I decide that there’s no way to know what he has, and that if I continue, he’s likely to beat me with what he has, outdraw me, or semibluff me out of the pot. I hate calling here because it invites a bluff on the turn that I might not be able to call. If I raise, it would have to be much more then pot for me to get the information I need. So…

I fold.

I don't know how to feel about this hand...