And this one?

Does he have a set or is this just another shortstack playing with TPTK


***** Hand History for Game 2042814644 *****
$100 NL Hold'em - Friday, May 13, 12:51:19 EDT 2005
Table Table 36743 (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: hollandhomer ( $29.6 )
Seat 3: abgenac ( $51.6 )
Seat 5: abnyc71 ( $97.05 )
Seat 6: SlappYou ( $100.5 )
Seat 4: DennisObara ( $76.7 )
Seat 1: DeeGreat ( $75.25 )
SlappYou posts small blind [$0.5].
DeeGreat posts big blind [$1].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to SlappYou [ Ad As ]
hollandhomer folds.
abgenac calls [$1].
DennisObara folds.
abnyc71 folds.
SlappYou raises [$3.5].
DeeGreat folds.
abgenac calls [$3].
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6c, 3h, Ts ]
SlappYou bets [$7].
abgenac raises [$14].
SlappYou calls [$7].
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5c ]
SlappYou checks.
abgenac bets [$15].
SlappYou raises [$40].
abgenac is all-In [$18.6]
** Dealing River ** [ 8d ]
SlappYou shows [ Ad, As ] a pair of aces.

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abgenac doesn't show [ Td, Jc ] a pair of tens.
SlappYou wins $6.4 from side pot #1 with a pair of aces.
SlappYou wins $102.2 from the main pot with a pair of aces.


Remember that whole me slowing down and thinking thing? Well thats what I did. Would you have put him on some weakass shit by the aggressive betting as a shortstack? I sure did. Or am I just lucky that he didnt have the set/2pair

Trying not to look at the outcome before I respond...

First, I would have played this somewhat differently. I would have raised him again (probably by the minimum, but maybe a bit stronger) on the flop. You think you're ahead here, don't give him a free card & don't let him take control of the hand by going into check-call mode so quickly. There's a place for it, but that place isn't playing aces on a flop of undercards.

Given that you did play it that way, I like the check-raise on the turn. It sends a clear message: my hand is strong and I think you're full of crap. Come get some.

As far as his holdings, he went out of his way to raise you on the flop - I would at least suspect a set, but two pair is unlikely given the board. There's no obvious draws for him to get cute with, so I could easily see a set of anything. I could also see him overvaluing top pair, which is why I'd want to re-raise him on the flop to find out if he buckles under the pressure. To me it's 50/50 if he has you beat or not. Given the way the rest of the hand went, I think you're either doubling him up or taking his stack; I don't see any good opportunities in here to really get a read on him and maybe make a tough fold.

Given the size of the pot vs the size of his stack, I assumed that there was no way I would fold to a $7 re-raise w/o getting us both committed. Any re-raise would have basically committed us both to the pot because of his stack size. So, for some reason I just waited until the turn so that I could make sure and get the rest of it in in case he was ever considering folding. Now that I look back, I think I should have just re-raised him and let him either fold or push on me and I call.