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1. Your flop bet is a wasted effort. You think you're repping a king for trips, but people who flop a monster rarely bet that big. If you're going to bet there, go with a more vague bet: 2/3 of the pot or less. Maybe 1/2 the pot.
2. The turn is an easy fold IMO. You don't beat anything except a bluff from a hand worse than your A-9 high. You're not that pot-committed. Let's make an assumption here that he has pocket eights or worse, and you have six clean outs (aces and nines). That's about 8:1 with one card to come. His bet is $10 into an approx. $45 pot, for pot odds of 4.5:1. So even in a pretty good scenario where he has something but you have six outs against it, this is a poor call. I'd only call this if you had some compelling read on him that said he was likely to re-raise you with a small pair or something like QJ, and then smooth-call a big bet on a dangerous flop, and then push all in in a situation where he knew you might feel obligated to call. In other words, you'd have to have a read that he was a total idiot to make this call. Otherwise it's a clear fold.
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