$25NL...Donk bet dry board.

[teecee90]

Villain has only played 4 hands so no real reads.

How would you interpret the donk over-bet on this flop? I Was playing pretty aggressive at this table and thought that he may have interpreted my pre-flop raise as a steal. Im struggling to think what hand he would play this way other than complete air. A flopped straight or set would surely more likely check-raise or put in a bet size more likely to be called. Im confused !

Poker Stars
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.10/$0.25
6 players
Converter (http://www.neildewhurst.com/hand-converter)

Stack sizes:
UTG: $25
UTG+1: $25.25
Hero: $52.65
Button: $32.95
SB: $15.45
BB: $24.80

Pre-flop: (6 players) Hero is CO with http://www.neildewhurst.com/wp-content/images/classic-cards/9d.png http://www.neildewhurst.com/wp-content/images/classic-cards/9h.png
2 folds, <font color="#cc0000">Hero raises to $1</font>, Button folds, SB calls, BB folds.

Flop: http://www.neildewhurst.com/wp-content/images/classic-cards/7s.png http://www.neildewhurst.com/wp-content/images/classic-cards/3c.png http://www.neildewhurst.com/wp-content/images/classic-cards/4h.png ($2.25, 2 players)
<font color="#cc0000">SB bets $4</font>, Hero ??

[Jzo19]

fold...let it go , dont fight 2 hard for small pots ..

edit/ without any reads i cant really put villain on anything,,just take a note and keep playing , hopefully that note can help you against him in the future

[whyzze]

shove. His range is huge. He is short. Your hand is good here ALOT.

[catoandtonic]

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shove. His range is huge. He is short. Your hand is good here ALOT.

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I would shove for the reasons above. Your hand has good equity against the average shorty here.

[teecee90]

Ok....I'll admit that I bottled it and folded here, but was really not happy about it.

[1tripz1]

Question teecee, What would you do with AA here?

[Miko]

I admit tripz that AA has almost the same equity (depending on how big of a probability you give him TT, and AA/KK meaby?) allthough I would probably call w/ AA and shove w/ 99 here cause AA has a lot less scarecards (prob. none) on the turn.

[1tripz1]

Well yeah id play AA different, but my point is they are both equally playable in this spot.

[teecee90]

I take your point.....obviously I would be more inclined to push in this spot with AA and I was very close to doing so with my 99. I just felt that I didn't know enough about the villain and I hadn't contributed much to the pot at this stage.

Perhaps its a leak of mine, but I like to gather a few hands on people before I get too brave /images/graemlins/blush.gif

[1tripz1]

Thats not a bad strategy at all, but generally when i have an overpair to a dry board im pretty comfortable. Wont most players check a set here? Remember this is the flop you wanted, you cant just give up.

[traz]

I typically call and get it in on the turn if he bets