3/6 Play Along On A Resteal Attempt

[Harv72b]

This is very obviously not a standard play for me. The table was short-handed and loaded with piss poor players (all on my left, d'oh!), which made MP2's raise a lot less frightening than it normally would have been. My own table image was solid & TAG, and even the bad players were starting to notice that, so I felt I had a decent chance of getting heads up & stealing this pot postflop from a better hand.

MP2 is a known, solid TAG over a 500+ hand sample. 20/12/2.3, and clearly a winning player. I felt/feel that he is very capable of laying down a raising hand like AJ or KQ UI postflop, even a stronger hand if the board warrants it...to say nothing of hands he might be raising here, like A7s etc. BB is unknown. If it makes a difference, Button is 33/4/1 over 400, and SB is 15/9/3 over ~350. There's another 35/5 type sitting out in the seat on my left.

Party Poker 3/6 Hold'em (7 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

Preflop: Hero is CO with 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 raises</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero 3-bets</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, BB calls, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 caps</font>, Hero calls, BB calls.

Flop: (12.33 SB) 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
BB checks, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 bets</font>, Hero...?

Feel free to berate the preflop play if you must. I think that postflop is much more interesting, though, and how often do we see a post about playing 42s in a big pot? [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]