The spots being the table bully gets you into

Originally Posted by JeffreyGB

Originally Posted by Fnord

I put him on a pretty wide range here. The table has been calling pre-flop with crap then bailing on the flop. He really hasn't shown any spine up until now...

Any specific reason to think that his spine is unrelated to his cards? Often such a change in behavior indicates good cards to me. I agree with the laydown; he could have one or both draws or even have gotten a sweet BB special and have you out-kicked (unless he'd have reraised preflop, which sounds unlikely).

I agree. Either he has you outkicked with semi-crap, or his real crap just turned into not-crap.

When the fish start raising it's usually time to get out of the way.