So against my better judgment, I have begun playing downtown in their 1/2NL no cap game... I had assumed that since downtown is basically Satans dingleberry, that the players there would be a. awful, but more importantly b. broke as fuck... Well apparently I was half right, and while they're about as good as Seb is at picking up women, they seem to be using all the money they save sleeping in $3/night dives and .99c buffets at the table... They are SUPER loose and they are all either superaggros or super calling stations...

So I sit down w/ a buddy of mine and get into an apparent pissing match w/ the local asian who thinks he can just buy more money than the rest of the table and be good... He's sitting on one stack of red and some bills underneath that I can't count... So I ask him innocently enough, "How much you sitting on there"... He looks right at me, fans his cash out, says "$1200 and I have more in my wallet where that came from" like I was questioning whether he had 3 balls or something... He started acting like a real dick, so I just pulled out another $600 (I had started w/ 500 and made one) and told him I wanted to see how much he was gonna have to pull outta the wallet... He apparently hates me...

On to the hand...

He opens for $17 (he had been raising a LOT in the 20 minutes I'd been at the table)... Solid super tight, semi-playing scared player who I've played w/ before and said I couldnt' stack him even if I set over setted him ($1300) calls, worst player in creation ($1100) calls OTB... I'm in the SB and look down at ... I reraise to $75 (looking back I'm not sure if I shoulda raised more as we were all so deep, but the raise was big enough at the table that it was a "big raise")... Asian pretty quickly calls... Everyone else folds...

Flop Pots about $185... I lead $125... He pretty quickly calls...

Turn ... Pots like $435... I...???

CRAI

If you're playing 1/2, I really don't think you should be playing that deep against unknown aggros. If you wann put $1,000 on the table, go to the Wynn and play 2/5. It's definitely a good game at least on the weekends unless my own brief experience was completely atypical.

I also think you raised too much, really, but I'd strongly suggest expanding the re-raise range to include SCs and some other PPs. If you're clearly JJ-AA or AK, the type that I'm picturing this Asian player as being poses some major risks. That being said, my re-raise probably wouldn't have been all that different, namely $60.

I think I'd probably fire about $250 on the turn, although I don't object either to a check-call. The $250 gives him the opportunity to raise if he wins, but I'm not entirely sure what to do on the river. I'm putting him for the most part on some kind of 86, actually, although I don't exclude 64, to which you're drawing completely dead, or 2 pair.

CRAI is imo completely frivolous on this board against this player.

Anyhow, I've only read your original post, so I may have more comments after reading the rest. The river can become very difficult to play here in any case.