i'm done after the flop me thinks...

wow, that's incredible that you guys all want to fold everywhere.

I win quite a few pots like this.

In this case, while I do think I lose occasionally here, I think I'm ahead way over 50% of the time (and am getting 3:1). Pretty much as I figured, he flips over AK, and I win a very big pot.

I think a Q is going to either bet the turn (and I do fold the turn if he bets) or else check-trap all the way. There are hands he's ahead of that I can have, but he's better off letting me bet.

I should perhaps add that the mini-raise didn't seem to mean big pair necessarily. He just raised like that--and had raised maybe 4 times in 30 hands. The flop overbet also didn't look to me like a big hand.

The reason I really posted this hand is that I think calls like this can make a HUGE difference in one's HU win-rate.

I'm taking it that ice's "why" refers to the part in bold. I really think any 2 are worth limping--particularly against a rare raiser. If you get up to maybe 40% raising or better from BB, then I do fold this PF. I think it would be a mistake not to complete, however. And I really don't think I'm a very big dog against a large part of his range (any hand with no pair in it--and I even think I'd seen him limp with some middle pairs).

To ua: I don't view my flop raise as a bluff--more as an information raise, hopefully with some fold equity vs. something like TT, but I think I'm ahead very often here.

To redlands: That's pretty much how I viewed it, and the river certainly wasn't an easy call. AQ or such just made little sense to me with this betting sequence and board development. Also, the overbet on the flop doesn't make much sense with that hand. Why would one really want to do that? Not to say that no one does, but it's just rather odd HU for that hand or an overpair.

He has AA everytime.