Toughest Descision I've Faced...

.25/.50 Home Game. We all buy-in for $25 and the end pot usually gets up to about $500 with all the new players coming in and out. Everyone is friendly and we all know each other pretty well. I am having a great night and my stack is at $125 from my original buy-in. A good night for me...I'm trying to keep it that way. Villian in this hand is a donk. Complete donk who will get his money in with any two. He is very loud and the idiot of the table.

He is on the button and I am in the BB with Jh 8c. He min raises to $1 and we go to the flop 4 handed after I call hoping to simply outplay him because I know he will come out aggresive.

Flop comes [Kc 10c 9c]

Checks to the donk who leads out for $10. I think and I decide that bet looks like a bluff or a draw and that I want to see one more card peel off. (Dumb descision now that I think back but anyway...)

Turn is the Qd....

Good card for me as I make my straight. I check it to him again. He completley shocks me with a bet of $35. A huge bet for our game. I ask him how much is behind and he tells me its $60 more. Now if I know this guy I know his money is going in on the river.

What would you do? What do you put him on?

(I will tell you what he had later)

I fold the flop and I fold the turn, I want to put this guy on a set or something like it but you don't show a solid read so I probably fold.

You shove, he calls and shows AJ. Amirite?

I thought for a good 2 minutes and came very close to calling and very close to folding several times. My final descision was to fold and he flipped over pocket 9's.

I don't think J8o is the hand you want to have vs. this opponent since you pretty much just have to bluff to win the hand, and you said this guy gets AI with any 2 (bad for you) and is very aggressive, which means he likes to come over the top a lot (also bad for you).

Seeing the turn with this card is not a good play because you might easily be drawing dead and you knew you will face a tough decision on turn. I would fold the flop and turn. Seeing the flop after a minraise with J8 is marginal, but not bad.

I decided to see the flop because with 4 players at the flop I figured I was getting a discount and I knew donk would continue bet on the flop. If I hit a J or even an 8 with the right board I planned on coming over the top. Usually with this guy he puts the pedal to the metal until you slow him up. But, he mixes it up with some well timed bluffs.

Thats why I saw the flop. Then with his bet on the flop I figured he had the K with a marginal kicker. If I hit my straight or even a club I would probably be good and take a nice chunk from him. But his bet on the turn made me feel like he wanted me to think he was buying it and when I folded I figured him for a decent sized flush.

Why would you want to come over the top of him? Just let him bluff, see flops when he is giving you the price, and when you flop a monster, slowplay. It is risky, but you gotta take the risk.