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Originally Posted by Mr.Jones
Against an aggressive thinking loose player.
"generally speaking"
Are you just supposed to call them down with top pair even if the board pairs up (w lower cards) and they lead into you on the turn?
Sure, sometimes they're going to have it, but you have to just bite the bulllet and call down anyway?
In your particular example, once the lower card pairs, your top pair gets upgraded to two pair. When your opponent bets into you, the probability of him having trips is actually higher for a LAG than for a TAG, because both are aggressive players who might take advantage of scare cards to make you fold the better hand, but the LAG is more likely to hold lower cards than the TAG.
Post flop bets get larger and larger, and pot commitment becomes an issue. Harrington has a "law" that reads "small hand, small pot". Your two pair hand is downgraded to a small hand on a paired board, so you need to pay close attention to bet sizing and avoid the mistake of losing your stack.
In a situation like that, if the opponent makes a small bet into you, you could make a reasonable raise and see if he just calls or reraises. A reraise is usually a sign he's not fooling around, and I would fold my two pair hand most of the time, and call only if I have strong evidence that the particular player is a habitual bluffer.
That might seem overly cautious to you, but the goal in poker is not to win any particular hand, and losing your stack is costly mistake.