Bullets at the Bellagio

[Jeffage]

This hand occurred at about 6 am in the Bellagio poker room on Wednesday morning. My sleep schedule was F'd so I was totally fresh, but most people seemed stuck or wavering. Main villain in this hand was an older, apparently Bell-regular white guy who seemed to play tight/weak in the 30 mins he'd been there. He had clearly just woken up for the day and prob does this regularly to pray on degenerates. Anyway, here's the hand.

It's folded to me and I open in the cutoff with A [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. I had been raising a lot lately, generally taking pots without a showdown. The SB, a tough regular player, makes it three bets. Main villain the BB coldcalls, something I'd yet to see him do. I four-bet and both players called.

The flop came K [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]7 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]8 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. SB checks, BB checks, I bet, SB check-raises, BB coldcalls, I reraise, SB calls and now BB comes alive and makes it four-bets. This is a crappy situation for me in that I'm probably torched by a set, but I can't fold yet. I guess it's possible he has something like K8s for two pair which I have outs against, but it seems likely he'd fold that preflop. A huge flush draw is possible, but I'm not sure he'd jam it like that (I think he would if it was something like KQs for a pair/draw combo). Anyway, my gut said set, but I realize there are other possibilities since I don't know him totally and the pot is big so I feel I should protect my hand in case it's good or in case I can draw out. So I make it five bets to hopefully drive out the SB. It works and he folds with some irritation. The BB calls.

The turn brings the 9 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. My opponent checked and I checked behind. The river brought the lovely 10 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. BB bet and I folded. What would you have done on a relative brick river card? Comments on flop/turn appreciated.

Jeff