Party $500k Key Hand - - Dumb or ?

[Lady Dont Tekno]

Hi,
I finished quite nicely in the 500k last night and this hand was key in attaining a stack. After this hand I wasn't faced w/ any other difficult decisions.

Villan has been playing really aggressively and has been in a lot of pots. He's been raising it up big when folded to him in the SB or Button.


Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t1000 (10 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

BB (t7674)
UTG (t12000)
UTG+1 (t21566)
UTG+2 (t11240)
MP1 (t30196)
MP2 (t6620)
MP3 (t22154)
CO (t21758)
Hero (t12002)
SB (t60313)

Preflop: Hero is Button with J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">7 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t2785</font>, <font color="#CC3333">SB raises to t5700</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Hero calls t2915.

Flop: (t12400) A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
SB checks, Hero checks.

Turn: (t12400) 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">SB bets t7000</font>, Hero calls [t6302] .

River: (t19400) A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>

Final Pot: t19400

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
SB has 9c Jd (one pair, aces).
Hero has Jh Qc (two pair, aces and queens).
Outcome: SB wins t12400. Hero wins t7000. </font>

As soon as he checks the flop I decide that I'm going all the way w/ this hand (unless a K turns). He's way too aggressive to check top pair. I'm either way ahead or way behind so I'm gonna take my chances. Thoughts? Am I a lucky donk? [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

i would have open-pushed prefop given that a) the bb is short but not pot-committed and b) the sb is clearly a player who is willing to F w/ you and possibly cause you to make a bad mistake (e.g., what if he had reraised all-in preflop instead of that retarded small raise?)

do you have any means by which to interpret this small preflop reraise? you said he had been open-raising big; did this apply to his reraises as well?

if your read was only that he was very aggressive and splashing around, then i think you played it fine (after not open-pushing). if he had checked to you again on the turn i would've pushed right there.