[Sunny Mehta]

Hi DonkeyChip,

As mentioned by others in the thread, even if you do decide that you are committed, you really want to maximize your "picking off a bluff" equity against this type of player (aggressive, likes to bluff in position) in this type of situation (drawless board, no possible overcards).

It's not a cut and dried thing - you do have several different line options. The main point to take home is that in situations like this, you are trying to maximize based on villain's range and tendencies - in this case that means really trying to let him try and push you off the hand because he's aggressive and air probably makes up a good portion of his range (yes sometimes he'll have a worse or better hand that he's committed to, in which case it makes no difference, but that's why you want to maximize against his whole range). That could mean anything from check-calling all the way, to check-min-raising the flop and then checking the turn to make him think you're getting cute, to check-calling the flop and then donk-leading the turn, to check-calling the flop and turn and then donk-leading the river, etc.

-S