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The hand might not be very interesting, but my poor play to RWIII play, made me think there's something interesting here. I apologize if it's highly standard to the rest or rather simple.

Day 1, 2nd level. Robert Williamson came in two hours late, played a lot of hands since, but very passive. Limped or called all of 'em preflop, didn't do much post flop. He's probably down to 17k at this point. I have about 32k.

Blinds 100-200.

Folded to RW on the button, and he limps. SB completes. I look down at AKo and raise to 850. RW calls, sb folds.

Flop A39r
(Not 100% about the other two cards, but they were low and not connected).

I bet 1200, RW rather quickly raises to 3000. I call, not really sure what to make of that raise. First time he raised pf or on the flop.
How many 3-bet here?

Turn bricks. Something like A936. I check, he checks.
Anyone leads out?

Turn bricks. Something like A9368 no flush.
Who leads here? How much?
I check. He checks and mucks a weaker ace.

Obviously I played it bad and should have led out on the river. But, it did get me thinking about freezing your opponent with a marginal holdings. Something easily done in LHE, but seems like people often c/c or b/f with showdown value hands, but hardly raise early streets to get to a cheaper showdown.

I was hoping to get some insight from better players than me about how mundane this play is for them. I thought out of all RW plays (he played terrible), this was an interesting one, if he indeed intended to go to a cheap showdown by raising the flop.