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Thanks.

Jeff, I guess I thought hand range-equity-maximize is what we do everytime, every hand anyways...I was thinking SPR just helps us 'maximize'. It seems in this hand I felt I either had to go all the way or fold the flop, otherwise I put in too much and then fold. Against the blinds I would have been more cautious but vs. the aggrotard I felt I had to go with it. Maybe I was 'reaching' for a spot to tangle with this guy...with him being so aggro and to my left he had pushed me off some other hands that may have been good. He was pushing everybody off hands...basically trying to win almost every pot.

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SPR is a tool for helping you plan your hands. Of course, planning a hand will tend to make you maximize it but it doesn't mean that just because you meet your SPR and you are committed that you should be the one doing the betting.

For example, in your hand you have reached your target SPR. If you use REM you will see that you have good equity against his range and the best way to maximize is to check/call him pretty much the whole way since this way he will bet worse hands that he may normally fold if you were the one doing the betting. This is because of your read on this particular opponent.

Also, you are right that once you call the flop you should be committed to the hand but this doesn't mean that you have to raise.