Heads up situation with very experienced stud player. Winner of various Stud tourneys there, and apparent regular at Borgata stud scene. All cards live. Don't really remember the folded door cards, as they were irrelevant. I am seat 1. Villain is seat 2.

I raise the bring in with pocket aces, and a five door. He raises me with a jack door and I reraise. He calls.

He hits a suited queen on fourth, and checks. I bet with an off suit seven and he calls. On fifth he catches an off suit ten, and I catch an ace for trips. So his board is JQT with a two flush. I bet and he raises while making some comment about me having trip aces. This guy talks a lot in evey hand, but I had never played him before, so was still unfamiliar to me.

Raise him back or just call? One more thing. Neither of my aces match his two flush.

I'd reraise for sure. Lower trips, pocket kings for pair and open end or flush draw straight draw or two pair are much more likely than broadway. I'd discount 98o in hole almost completely if he plays well. If he has a straight you have outs to improve. If somehow you just call his raise I'd def bet into him on 6th if he bricks. But I'd rather just reraise.

Also on 3rd I would not raise him back. It gives away your hand as a big pair in the hole and will allow him to know when you make two pair and play his hand better than I'd you just call and plan to raise later.

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+1. Wouldn't pay much attention to the chat unless I had some knowledge of the player and what it meant.

Hey Jeffage - good to hear from you, and as usual you are bang on. Sad to say, that I let that comment get to me, and felt like a chump at the end when my trip aces beat his trip queens. In the heat of the moment, I thought that this guy has put me on trip aces and he is still raising me, so it slowed me down, and I just called. It was then check-call all the way to the river. He bet every time. I am now sure he did it on purpose, and it saved him a bet on fifth. Then again, he was super steamed when he lost the hand and left the table for a good half hour. My weak play must have convinced him that I raised on third with A55 I guess. Means we were both steamed since I was kicking myself for missing that raise on fifth.

I just think that because you have 3 of aces he is very unlikely to have AK here and it is very unlikely he 2 bet an ace completion with K9 or 89 in the hole because that doesn't tend to work out very well at all for someone that does that, he can't really be winning at this point, so you have to keep raising him and pretty much empty the clip.

If he shows you that hand then fair play but you still have 2 cards to come which can make you a full house.

Quick nit pick though, can't really accept the comment that dead cards don't matter. The fact that none of your or his cards are duplicated is something which might make you think that they don't matter, but actually it makes it more likely for him to have the hands you don't want him to have as well as more likely that you will catch the cards you want.