Go with my head or go with my heart?

[iceman5]

$5/$10 NL 6 max.

I limp A4s. SB raises to $35. BB folds. Its $25 to me with posiiton so I call. This players name is BadFish and if there was an award for "name best suited for himself", he would win.

Hes just an all around bad player. For example, a few hands after this one, There was a ATT flop and he check / called my $30 pot bet with J9 (I had 55) . Now, this happened after the hand here in question, but that gives you an idea of how screwy he is.

Pot $80. Flop 994. He bets $40. I call
Pot $160. Turn 3 He bets $100. Now, I have no real way of knowing what he has here. He raised a very small amount from the SB. I doubt he has a big pair. i think he has overcards, quite possibly AK....but he could have a mid pair also. My heart tells me he has overs but my head tells me that I shouldnt be getting into these spots especially when in a losing streak. I trust my gut and call.

Pot 360. River 6. He bets $160. Damn!. I was hoping for a free showdown. Go with my heart and call? Or stop throwing good money after bad...and fold?

[NorthView]

Ignore both heart and head and go with the gut. Call.

[rocketballs]

Since you called the turn, you probably should call the river. It is a pretty good price. I would have liked a flop raise just to see where I'm at.

[Aisthesis]

Yeah, I'd go ahead and call. This really isn't that deep in a 5/10 game.

He bet passively on the flop, then harder on the turn, then moderately on the river. Possibly a value bet on an overpair, but also very possibly just big cards. I think you win it much more than 30% of the time, which is about all you need for the call to be correct.

I don't mind your line here at all. An alternative would be raising the flop, but I'm not sure it's so great against this kind of player. An information raise against an idiot seems to me to provide little information. He'd probably still call with KJ, I would think. And then you really couldn't call if he bet the turn again unimproved.

[iceman5]

[Jarren]

[Stelvask]

[iceman5]

[Stelvask]

[pnutbutr]

[kennyg]

raise preflop?