[Johnny McEldoo]

Thanks guys..

I think the biggest thing i took from the hand in hindsight keep the pot small as you said. I honestly didn't want to play for my stack after that flop and I feel like I sort of brought that on myself. My thought process during the hand though was to not let him see any more cards on a board like this.

At the time i was putting him on a draw and just couldn't see this guy limping with a pocket pair in on the SB. The 20 reraise was probably too small if my goal was to force a big mistake with a drawing hand anyway.

I ended up folding because I felt he probably had a clear idea what I had and it didn't seem to bother him.

Should I just become a calling station here and pray the bets stay reasonable and the board doesn't get too scary? With about 20 real scare cards for me (A, J, 4, any spade) it's very likely this board gets real ugly by the river.