I didn't have gametime running so this is from memory. Villain and I are double stacked and have both been there for ~200 hands. A little loose preflop but other than that solid. A previous hand went like this: I open raise in MP w/ A10 and he calls in SB. Flop is A66 rainbow, he chk/calls my $8 bet. Turn is blank. He leads out for $10 into $26 pot and I call. River is another blank and he leads out again for $20 and I call and he flips over QQ.

Here's the hand:

I raise in MP to $4 w/ [Qc] and villian calls in the blinds. Its HU

Flop: ($9) [Td][9s] He chk/calls my $8 bet.

Turn: ($25) He leads out for full pot. Now I'm not sure what to do. I hate folding and I also hate calling, so I min-raised to hopefully slow him down. He min-raised me right back, so I folded.

Thoughts?

minraising i think is silly, and the worst of your options. you're really just hoping he folds. and any time you make him fold, you are essentially bluffing with the best hand.

i think a fold is fine. when he had QQ on the A66 board he led turn for less than 1/2 pot. here he leads for full pot.

but i also think a call is fine. i think that there's a large chance of x[d], as well as a large chance of [Jd]. he's already given himself bad odds with his full pot bet. there's no need to raise here. you can easily get away if you face a big bet on a river, and probably even fold to a big bet on a non-[d] river. he'll almost always check the river with the NFD if he misses.

also....i know that when im playing deepstacked i will on occasion peel a card with middle pair or bottom pair. so you have to factor in a small chance that he could have a 9 here. but i think his most likely hands once he leads the turn are the aforementioned draws, or a boat, or A-x

jon