The villian in this hand has been rushing, last two hands has landed a set and won the past four. He isn't particularly good, I've seen him get knocked down to $10 and I've been debating his heavy aggression between tilt or rush.

$50 NL .25/.50

I pick up 66 on the button in an unraised pot, villian is in the big blind, I have the villian covered. villian bets the pot of 1.50, I make it $5, villian smooth calls. Turn is villian checks, I make it $11 in an $11.50 pot, villian check raises to $22, I reraise to put him in, he calls. Total pot $120.24.

Comments welcome on the flop and turn play.

well played imho I don't believe his raise of twice your bet on the turn and put him on a steal.

Villian had 87o for the straight, river paired the board and I sucked out. Being that he was playing really cavalier at the time I gave him less credit than I should have, and let the strength of my own hand blind me. I have a theory that if an opponent will play for all the money with a second best hand when it is actually second best wait until you know you are beating him to put the money in the middle, this guy wouldn't lay down his straight to three flush or paired board. I would have been happier about the play if the money went in on any street but the turn where he was in the lead. That is the real crux why this one bothered me even though I "won". I had the opponent on a one or two pair hand and misread.

Today I played a bottom set really fast, over betting the flop at % of his stack as the flop was bet, reraised, I decided 1/3 stack as the best bet, and putting him all-in at the turn, lost to a rivered flush. I have less problems with that hand as every bet I made was while I was ahead. Not moving in on the flop gave him the opportunity to make a large error at the turn when it missed him, the over bet giving me close enough odds to redraw if he did hit the turn. The fact the river hit is irrelevant in my opinion in both of these, no matter what the results show. One was a "correct" play the other a complete fiasco that worked out in my favor, but thats poker, as they say. And well the guy that one todays pot is a friend and coffee is on him this Saturday.