A hand

[Clarkmeister]

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His line just doesn't _feel_ like the way he should plausibly play an ace.


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This is what I was thinking at the table. His hand "should" be an ace the way he played it, but it just didn't feel like how he'd play an ace against me. Hence, my call. But at the same time, it sure didn't feel like he could reasonably expect me to fold *anything* to his river bet in that pot, which made me feel retarded for calling.

As for the turn, I think your observation is a good one. Another reason I raised is that I don't like to "encourage them to think I play weakly" as someone suggested in another thread. There are times for that, yes, but given that I 3-bet him quite a bit preflop and that ace high boards are so easy for people to take shots at, I just felt that this was a bad spot to do anything other than try and punish him in case he was taking a shot. So I'm going with the sometimes lame metagame excuse as another reason I popped the turn.