Ocean's Eleven - Roll out there at about 1 PM with Rhound50 and another friend who likes to play live.
Background:
Twiddle my thumbs at $1-1 for like 10 minutes and get moved to a $2-2 game. It seems pretty tight at first - first hand I play is like 10 hands in, two limpers and I raise to $8 out of the SB with A-A (haven't seen too much action, not sure if I should be leading huge with big pairs at this point), folds to the guy who limped in the CO who shoves for $30 - I insta-call and stack his strangely played Q-Q (espeically for a shortie - limp-shove in the CO...?)
About 10 hands later I get A-A again, open for $8, two callers including Rhound. He makes some smart-a$$ remark as he folds after I lead into him for $20, and after the other guy folds I show him my A-A.
I'm sitting on about $220, I've been at the table for an hour, and besides opening for those two raises with A-A I've limped maybe 5-6 times and I stacked someone when I called a weak flop lead with bottom pair, then he led weak again on the turn, and I ended up catching a back-door flush to win a pretty sizeable pot.
The Hand:
One limper in front of me, I'm two from the cut-off with 7-5 off-suit and just decide to raise for the hell of it - I've only popped it twice in an hour and both times I showed A-A, so I'm hoping I get some respect and people set themselves up to get played off a pot. So I pop it to $8.
Idiot who is somewhat conservative calls OTB with about $300 behind (type of guy who won't go broke without the nuts usually but will limp OOP with hands like K-2 & J-7 suited and then call raises with it). Blinds fold and two of us see the flop.
A[d]-6[c]-3[c]
I posture for 10-15 seconds and check with the nut gut-shot and he quickly checks behind.
Turn:
9[s]
Now my first instinct was to check-raise but I hadn't played with the guy long enough to know if he would try to scoop it on the turn with 10-10/8-8/7-7. So I felt like I should not get tricky and just lead for 3/4 of the pot and if he raises consider calling based on the odds, since then he'd most likely have a slow-played A-K/A-Q or a set and I have a superbly hidden double gut-shot. If I lead $12 and he raises to $30-40, I can definitely peel one off getting 4-1 knowing that I'll take his whole stack or most of it when I lead $100 on the river.
So I lead $12 and he thinks for a minute and then calls - I felt at this point that he was not that confident in his hand and was not slow-playing or holding an Ace.
River:
K[c]
I miss my double gutty and am first to act with 7-high.
Who leads this to try and steal it and who checks in surrender?