My bet preflop was $1.5 because 80% of the time I bet $2+ on these tables (empire) the whole table folds and it actually happened two hands before that. I stole the blinds with a $2 right before the blinds. Nobody knew it was a steal since it was my first played hand. Believe me, I would love to get high preflop bets on my premium hands, it sucks to watch them fold time and time again. I posted about this previously and the conclusion was to bet $1.5 to try to get more people in on these tables.

Back to the hand. I put this guy on Ax (probably AT not AJ) or QK or JT because his preflop call and the fact he raised with AJ on the board. Maybe he thought it was worth $5 to go for the straight. Either way, I figured I still had a good shot at winning the hand so I called.

On the turn, a rag came out. He bet $5 again. I had to make the same decision and figured if our hands have not changed, why change the way I'm playing it. River came out with nothing too. He put down $10. Like an idiot, I called and he indeed had AJ. This hand wiped out the gains from my previous victory.

Bad play on my part. I gather I should have reraised him on the flop and folded if he reraised again? I was concerned that my initial read was off, but it seems you agree for the most part. The thing is (i feel), if I had this situation 9 more times on these tables, I would win more than I lose.