I love this hand, the hand history doesn't do it justice, so I'll just narrate.

Party NL100.

I'm in SB ($95), opponent is BB ($90)

Me:

It folds all the way around to me, I call the .50 cents. BB min-raises to $2. I thought that this was interesting so I look at his stats. 11% VP$IP, 4% PFR, pretty tight, I'm thinking there is a good chance this guy has aces and is smart enough to realize that checking would be stupid but not smart enough to realize that min-raising is just as bad. I call.

Flop:

I check, he I believe had the insta-check on because it immediately checks through. At this point, I have an overwhelming feeling that he does in fact have aces and just made top set.

Turn:

I check, insta checks again.

River:

Great, I finally made a hand, now what do I do. Well, I could check, and he would certainly bet and then I could raise, but I feel like this gives him too much of a way to get away from the hand, or get out cheap. Or I could overbet the pot, trying to make it look like a steal or a semi-weak hand after we've gone check/check twice. So I bet $10 into the $2 pot. He thinks about it for a minute and min-raises to $20, alright it's settled. He's got the aces. Now I figure this guy is either going to take top set all the ay with multiple straights/flushes on board or he's not, so I don't feel like re-raising to $40 would really be a smart play, so after about 3 seconds, I move all in, he calls immediately, shows the aces.

I felt really great about this hand, and it turned a losing session into a winning one. I'm just curious to know, anyone play that river differently? I mean of course the ultimate goal is to get all the money in if you think you've got the best hand, which I did, but I just wanted to know if there are alternate opinions.

Besides the fact that this guy played pocket aces about as badly as humanly possible...? He minraised, which I honestly thought, before I saw the end, that he was just trying to steal... It generally doesn't matter all that much how tight he plays... Everyone LOVES raising heads up...

Then, after that horrible play, the flop puts a flush and straight draw out... and he checks... THEN, the turn gives 2 FLUSH DRAWS and more straight draws... AND HE STILL CHECKS.....????????????? To top it all off, he calls a push when ANY 4 OR TWO SPADES beats him... These are the guys you just laugh at and thank for the donation...

The great part about it was that even by the river when spades beat me, I absolutely knew that this guy had aces, there wasn't a shadow of doubt in my mind. As for the raise preflop, I don't care if you're the stupidest person in the world, you can't expect a $1 raise to chase me out after I've limped from the SB, and with his PFR% over a good amount of hands, this guy is pretty much only raising AA, KK, QQ and JJ anyway, and then just completely gave it away how he played it. It's kind of disturbing actually that he was capable of both being THAT tight and being such a complete moron.

I guess his theory is, by being THAT tight, he still loses money, cause he plays like a dumb blind monkey, but at least he loses it more slowly...