Villain is young, and hasn't played a hand in two rounds. This can seem like an eternity to a young player who wants action. I watch men in their 40's + start squirming and complaining when two rounds go by without a playable hand, and they should have more patience.

Lots of speculation here, but 9,8; 6,5, etc and the killing 55 or 9x are possible. I'm thinking overall we're ahead more often than we're behind.

Bored Villain may have seen your $25 as a feeler bet. He may also see you as gambly, and thought he could push you around depending on your action last two rounds.

I am calling, with silent whining in the background. It is what it is if he got lucky.

I just snap this off 70bb effective, if he has a 9 or 55 or even AA, fine WP. This is more likely to be pairs <KK or just random crazy. I don't think this is a tough spot either, my experience suggests that spazzing from shorter stacks tend to be exactly that: spazzing. I won't be amazed if he's ahead but this is an easy call as described.

People are idiots but natural human conditioning usually kicks in these situations.

With these stacks it is just fairly unlikely an overpair is going to manage a fold unless we both have super nitty images. Which is why jamming with 9x/55 (before an A/K/etc. scarecard comes) really isn't that bad if we are convinced they have an overpair.

Which also means we should *never* bluff here and attempt to get an overpair to fold.

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