10NL: Opening light, trips facing turn push.

[Esmerelda]

Villain is new to me, at this point we had been together about 20 hands and he was running 30/5/2 and hadn't done anything noteworthy.

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UTG (Villain) ($10.75)
MP ($9.85)
Esmerelda ($11.70)
Button ($21.20)
SB ($13.75)
BB ($5.70)

Preflop: Esmerelda is CO with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
UTG(Villain)/ calls $0.10, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Esmerelda raises to $0.5</font>, <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, UTG (Villain)/ calls $0.40.

I know, fold this. I have been experimenting with raising ATC from Button(usually) and CO (often) with a limper.

Flop: ($1.15) A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Villain checks, Esmerelda checks.

Pretty dry and I hate my hand. I figure I can extract some value later.

Turn: ($1.15) A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Villain bets $0.7</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Esmerelda raises to $2.5</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Villain raises to $9.5</font>, Esmerelda ???

I raise, at the time I thought that he had a king or fd and might call. Looking at it now I think a call is the better play.

As played, my thinking is that I can only beat a naked bluff here and even getting 2:1 this is a fold.