$100 PLO8 on Party. Table is a bit tighter than the normal Party table, but not a rock garden. I have notes on 3 of the other 7, but not villain (although I recognize him from previous sessions). Both villain and I have roughly equal full buyins in front of us.

I get AA2K with a suited A2 in the cutoff and raise the pot ($3) after a limper. Get one caller then MP1 reraises the pot back at me. From what I've seen so far, he seems like a nut peddler (he has shown down 3 hands, all with the nuts one way or another, but they were all smallish pots).

I have to figure he's got another AA hand, as unlikely as that seems. Unless he thinks I am a maniac (which I sorta have been of late, but wasn't yesterday), but I don't see him doing this with a low only A23x kind of hand.

If I could put him on something else, or know that he's a sloppy player than it's a no-brainer, but what do you do when you are pretty sure it's going to be a kicker battle? I like my deuce, but without another low card I'm leaving myself open to counterfeiting and getting quartered. Do you call and see if the flop likes you, or just push it in?

Results in a few............

I reraise. I will take my chances with that sort of hand on party any day of the week. Since this is PL, you have to hope that you get reraised on your reraise to get all the money in the center preflop. I know some will disagree with this move, but the PTO stats say that it is +++++EV to get all in preflop with AA2x.

Tom

exactly.