400nl, AQs from the blinds

[herbertdotcom]

Thanks for the advice guys.

I went for the c/r. I thought that he could have TT-JJ, and I was looking for him to bet in order to force out my AK.
I would be more likely to lead the turn if I had been firing second barrels often earlier in the session.

Here's the rest of the hand:

Turn: ($226) Q (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets $150, Hero calls $282 (All-In), Button calls $132.

River: ($790) 6 [color=#0000FF](2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: $790

I was surprised when he flipped over 57s. But, after the hand I was satisfied with the line that I took, because given that he is decent, he must be planning on bluffing/semi-bluffing the pot some higher than normal proportion of the time when he senses weakness, if he considers calling a rr pf w/ 57s profitable. What do people think of this reasoning as validating a turn c/r?

[jfish]

raise more pre, nice turn play.

[axioma]

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I like a check here also. Hes only calling you when your beat.

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nonsense.

[Zag]

I don't have any problem with that line as an alternate strategy, or even as the primary one if you are hardly ever making a second continuation bet. (But you should be making them, three handed.) You got unlucky with his holding -- he probably would have done the same thing if he had held 78 or 79, and you would have been the one stacking the chips.

To Gugel, who wants to leave a way to get away from this hand (after putting in a little more than half his stack) I wanna play some poker with you, dude. Well, maybe not in a full ring game with very deep stacks, but I'll eat you up shorthanded.