Quote Originally Posted by Fnord
I've never done this. So many different varieties of fish in the sea.
Yeah, I was more giving myself a hard time for calling them nits and donks. That kind of shorthand is fun but destructive sometimes, I think. Anyhow -

Quote Originally Posted by Fnord
Call flop bet and re-evaluate. Can't rule out 2 big cards yet. I don't hate a min-raise either.
Oh, min-raise is saucy. That is almost out of my playbook now except for the occasional CiB, but in this situation it's interesting. Do you think it gives him a little too much info though? It also has the weird effect of repping a frush draw, which I don't know if that's good or bad - might compel him to start pumping in huge bets that I won't feel giddy about calling.

Anyway, I flatted it as mentioned. Turn was another little spade (did I mention I had the Qs?) and he fired a large cannonball across my port bow... er, bet $14 into the $18 pot. Now here's where the hand gets troubling to me. I know at that point he very, very likely had AA, KK, or JJ, and somewhat likely that one of his cards was a spade. What's the best play here? Call and hope for a cheap showdown (I'm getting the pot odds to just ride it out, unless he goes apeshit on the river) or rep the frush and try to make him fold his big pair that he really won't want to fold? I don't see any way he has two big cards now unless they are both spades. On the other hand, he could still have a big pair without a spade, and if so I have a flush draw. Decisions, decisions.