By the way, here's a pretty good story about two pair. I was hosting a short-handed (5 person) cash game at my home. All regulars, we knew each other's style very well. I was on the button with AT suited. One guy had limped ahead of me; I raised 3xBB, it folded back around to him and he called. So we saw the flop just the two of us. He's very much a classic TAgg player, which is how I play in those games as well.

The flop comes down ATx two-suited. He bets out the full pot, which I figured to be him repping an ace (not just repping it - actually holding it, also) and trying to take control of the hand. I happily gave him my "I'm serious" raise - about three times his bet. Usually at this point is when he'd give me the staredown for a minute and then fold. Instead, he glances at me and says, "OK, I'm all in."

This is early in the evening and we both have basically our full buy-in in front of us, so we're talking about a hefty re-raise to me. It might have been 4 or 5 times what I had raised to. So I thought about it, and thought, and thought. I couldn't put him on any kind of draw, he's too tight for that. I couldn't put him on AK or AQ because he would have opened with it; even less likely, trip aces. He might have made the lower set with the x card but it really seemed like he had pocket 10s. The only other thing I could figure was that he had two pair also - and since he'd probably not call a raise with Ax or Tx, that meant he had AT like me. So my quandary was, are we chopping, or am I way behind and about to lose my stack? I must have thought about that for two solid minutes.

Finally I called. I had to. He flipped AT, the turn and river changed nothing (although I did end up with a four-flush) and we chopped it. He shook my hand afterward and said "good call"; I was still shaking a little bit over it. Wasn't that much money at stake really, but there's something unnerving about having to call any all-in like that so early in the night. Afterward the only thing I wished is that I would have been able to beat him into the pot with the push, and made him make the difficult decision instead of me.