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Originally Posted by recondite7
This is fine as played. If he is aggressive you need to reraise more often here and this hand would definitely be in the range to do that. He won't shove on you that often and when he does you definitely are priced in.
If you call with the intent of trapping the villain, you will run into too many difficult decisions against an aggressive player. You also likely won't have him stack off to you when a heart hits.
This seems contradictory. If this player is so aggressive, why will hearts slow him down? He will certainly stack off on hearts sometimes, just that it's more likely when he has a single heart or a weak holding turned into a bluff than if he has, say, QQ, no hearts.
Regardless, this board has an enormous potential calling range for Hero here - any 8, any 9, any straight draw, any hearts, any overpair are all potential calling hands. In this instance, Hero improves on 15 cards and gains a straight draw on 6 others. Raising is fine, but it narrows Hero's range significantly and IMO lets the villain play better than he otherwise might.