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At this point you look like AJ, AK, or maybe a Ax heart sooted. No way he puts you on trips.

If he has "nuts", he is in danger of flush draw or AK str8 draw, and wants to take away ur odds. There's enuf money in the pot already. A better move would be to just bet the pot, setting up 5th street for more action, but the bird in the hand is tempting.

If JJ or QQ, he should have raised PF, and would not be trying to push you out so hard, since he can make fh.

So many other hands he could have, including AJ, AQ, AA, KK, PP, 2pr, str8 draw etc.

The key is, you have trips, he doesn't know it.

I wouldn't say never fold trips, but you need a good reason. Over-sets and nut str8's are low prob. and not a good reason. Ur supposed to lose to those hands. Against ur aggressive friend, this is a perfect spot to call. Even if you lose, now he'll think ur trappy when he sees the set.

The real HSNL game is the head game, after all. So really, discussions about hands and card strategy are by definition an avoidance of HSNL strategy. No one is gonna post that for free in 2+2 forum.