am i crazy? HU hand vs. truesyalose

[mcatdog]

It's Sunday morning so I'm 10-tabling the Sunday million satellites. Villain is a P5er whose name I recognize but I haven't played with him before. Based on the match so far he's aggressive and probably taking it too far.

History: When we were 5-handed I min-raised once and folded to a shove by him, then I min-raised a couple hands later UTG with AK (I had 1800 chips 75/150 blinds), he shoved 2500 with KJ which I think was bad on his part and I doubled up. Since we got heads-up both of us have been raising and re-raising a lot, I doubled him up once and then he doubled me back up, then this hand happened.

Converter is a piece of crap so sorry for not converting it.

PokerStars Game #10713503019: Tournament #54289426, $8.00+$0.80 Hold'em
No Limit - Match Round I, Level VII (100/200) - 2007/07/01 - 13:30:13
(ET)
Table '54289426 4' 6-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 3: mcatdog (5140 in chips)
Seat 5: truesyalose (3860 in chips)
mcatdog: posts the ante 25
truesyalose: posts the ante 25
mcatdog: posts small blind 100
truesyalose: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to mcatdog [2c Ah]
mcatdog: raises 400 to 600
truesyalose: raises 3235 to 3835 and is all-in
mcatdog: calls 3235

[taipan168]

If blinds were 200/400 this would be an instacall, but at 100/200 I think you can let this one go. Given your read on opp it's close though.

[mcatdog]

This was probably a bad call, but when you're playing aggro and getting re-stolen from a lot, you must protect your raises by calling a lot of their re-steals and letting them know that it won't be profitable for them to re-steal with air. Otherwise it's too easy for them to shove over half of your raises and yes, they'll run into a hand every once in awhile, but you'd still be getting pwned by them in the long run.

This player was playing a lot of sats this morning so I'll probably run into him again, and it's going to be hard for him to re-steal from me with air knowing that the last time I played him, I insta-called a re-raise with A2o. It's +++EV in the long run if he doesn't play back at me without a hand. A2o was probably just a little too weak to make this play though, thinking about it afterwards.

[givememyleg]

I don't think I call this. I don't think the long run effect really matters that much here.

[taipan168]

This player was playing a lot of sats this morning so I'll probably run into him again, and it's going to be hard for him to re-steal from me with air knowing that the last time I played him, I insta-called a re-raise with A2o. It's +++EV in the long run if he doesn't play back at me without a hand. A2o was probably just a little too weak to make this play though, thinking about it afterwards.

You'd have to run into him pretty often to allow metagame considerations to influence your decision making IMO. If he's playing that many sats, he might not even notice that you're you.