Quote Originally Posted by nibbles
Demon, I often make that same play with medium pocket pairs when flop seems to have missed pre-flop raiser (have seen numerous other players do this as well). UTG raise usually means big PP or big slick / AQ. Overpairs will usually re-raise on flop, overcards sometimes fold, but often call and check turn. When villain called my raise and checked the turn is when I felt I was ahead. On the flop I had no idea, but on overpair would have definitely re-raised me on the flop as he was facing two opponents. I wanted him to think I had a medium pocket pair or possibly paired the ten.

With my stack size, calling off my chips would have been the worst thing. Sure i had odds on the flop, but I would most likely have been priced out on the turn. I would have called off 25% of my stack by the flop (started hand with 2000 chips, called 200 pf, flop bet was 300), and his turn bet would have been 500 at the very least (probably more) so more than half my stack would be gone on a draw. Let's pretend I hit my draw, how often would I get paid off by ace high? The way I played it gave me the best chance to win, I thought based on my read. I guess my mistake was trying to bluff a calling station.
Ok, I tried. Keep going the way you are going.

Good luck with it (I think you will probably need it).