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This kid is the worst person for the game I have ever come in contact with.

"how do you call that!!"
"Thats' all? Ha, you're giving me money!"
"He's getting X:X and he still called! HOW?!"

It's incredible that he thinks he's so smart,and doesn't understand where his money is coming from.

I hope you won this hand and he was flabbergasted at your line every street.

ps. I check the turn and bet or call the river.

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This is the line I ended up taking. My pause on the turn was when I decided that I was betting any river if he checked it to me (including any club). My main reasoning was not wanting to turn my hand over (90%) and maybe he calls with KJ or less (10%). Not that I played the hand super deceptively, but he rates to be the kind of player who is going to look you up more often after you take one down uncontested, and if I lost I was planning to start trying to play lots of pots with him and start firing away. Unfortunately, he left not too long after he called the river and won with A8o.

Luckily he gave me a crash course on how well he played the hand and then told me how "even though it might have looked light," my middle pair calldown against another pro was probably right. I sure am glad he explained that one to me after I'd already done it and scooped the pot.

Thanks for the comments so far.

-Blake