I often get taken out by stuff like this. Being out of position, and playing against people who keep smooth calling.

One of the drawbacks of playing aggressively is that people will let you do their raising for them if they make a bad call on the flop which improves on the turn or river.

The other horrible part is if you decide to check the turn. Opp raises you, presumably.

Do you fold it? Or do you think "I showed weakness, so you're betting at me?" and re-raise it?

Hence POSITION is so important in hold'em.

I've been messing around with how I play a bit of late and have started doing a bit of Aok's Counterplay stuff when out of position, and plain old TAG when i have position. I'm even thinking that i'm happy to win a bit less than optimal on my out of position hands to minimise this risk.