I wouldnt say its horrible. If I was the villain, I very well might raise you with any 2 cards if I was last to act.

Also, most people will call with a flush draw and if they hit it, they will wish they hadnt.

THis is a line I would rarely use, but I think I would continue playing possom. I would call and CRAI on the river. Hopefully he doesnt check behind, but I dont think he will.

I would have no problem reraising all in right now either.

Electrolux -- ask Stoneburg why we always limp UTG -- it was his idea. Previously, I was limp-raising AA and KK and limping TT and worse -- so that my only UTG raises were always QQ-JJ. That just seemed like a really stupid strategy, very easily exploited if anybody figured it out. Also Stoneburg convinced me that the value I gain from surprise by having a big overpair on small boards more than outweights the value I lose when the flop has a big card and I have to check/fold the flop.

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Postflop, I never slowplay anything less than top boat. Here I hit top boat and my hand was 100% disguised - no way anybody can put me on JJ. So I was going to slowplay it, but so often you run into someone else also slowplaying their flopped trips. Only 2 streets isn't enough to get money into the middle. Thus the weak lead on the flop. I still don't know how I feel about it.

Because the guy who raised me was a big stack and a solid player, I put him on pretty much any two cards trying to push me off, on the flop. On the turn, I started to put him on a 9 of some sort.

And this is where I screwed up. I started to worry that a flush card would come on the river and screw my action against a 9, so I check/raised all-in on the turn, hoping it would look like a semibluff. He thought forever and finally folded. Due to how long he took to fold, I think he folded a 9. I think he put me on T8 or KT -- although if he had good reads on me he would know I never limp anything that weak UTG.

I think if I had just bet regular on the flop I would have doubled up by the river. Bleah bleah bleah.

Fancy play syndrome strikes again.

Thanks for all the feedback.

You guys don't raise AK first in?