Quote Originally Posted by yorib
Very interesting HH. Your line screams set as much as a line ever could (limp preflop, call raise, c/r on uncoordinated flop). There are only three/four hands that villian could possibly have that justify his call. (This assumes that you haven't been playing hyper aggressively recently, nor has he.) AA/99/AKs/AQs (possibly a 44 who is willing to get stacked in a set over set). Given the way the hand played out the only hand he could have that would justify a call (but not push) both flop and turn is ATs (where s = spades).

I don't think I could fold Axs (spades) on the flop even to an obvious set, but perhaps I should. I think you played it fine.

The problem with 2 pair is any lead is tenuous and so many cards become scare cards.
I put him on air pre-flop...thought he was pulling a button raise. So I called the re-raise hoping to take the pot away on the flop. Flop was good for me, villan made what looked to be a standard C-bet to pull the pot, and I put him to the test with the pot sized re-raise. His call made me think he had AK or was making a bad call with a flush draw, so I pushed the turn hoping he couldn't get away from either one. Also at that time the pot was more than big enough for me to be happy with and I wouldn't have minded a fold either.

Turns out I was wrong:

Villan shows for three of a kind, nines.

That's the last thing I expected given that I was looking at two 9's already.