Empire $50 NL

I get dealt in the button.

The villian in this hand is a real piece of work. He's been telling everyone how they're misplaying their hands but he's already had to reload, and I have only been at the table for 2 or 3 orbits. I have seen him showdown about 6 out of the last 10 hands, and he's tilting a little bit.
*both of us have full stacks*

Villian is the SB and posts .25

3 limpers, i come along.

Villian min raises to $1

BB folds, CO calls, I call.

Flop: I Flop the nuts.

Villian bets $4

CO calls, and Hero raises to $10.

Villian re-raises to All-In.(~$44) CO folds, Villian has me covered by just a little bit, I call.

Turn: River:

Villian had . After he showed he called me a fish for calling a pre-flop raise with 79s, the chatbox was filled with XXXX's from his cursing. I calmly tried to explain to him that sometimes it's ok to call a min-raise with a suited connector or 1 gapper in position. He would have none of it, he even called me Flounder, after the fish from Disney's: The Little Mermaid. (I kinda' liked Flounder).

Anyway, I guess my question is: Who wants to make the over the top all in move on a very coordinated board, with full stacks, in the face of aggression. I would think this guy would want to excersize some pot control, by flat calling the flop when the only hand he beats is another pair.

The only problem I have with your play is outside of the hand where you tell him it is ok after he is bashing you for being a fish. Just say that the game is 90% luck 10% folding, you got lucky he didn't fold. Don't ever bother going into strategy or tactics, if this guy doesn't realize how to play suited connectors no need to enlighten him.

It is a big it depends as to whether I play the hand as fast as the villian. Yesterday I pump up JJ make an over pair on a semi coordinated by a bad hand type board. I bet the pot on the T high flop and get called by very passive muppet. I've previously bluffed and showed him six high to find a spot to run an obvious bluff with a made hand this is the first chance. I've played this guy before and he would have pumped up a set or two pair on the flop with a big check raise, he has about 3/4 of a stack and I put him in on the turn. He called with 96o and had picked up a draw that missed the river.

If the villian had check raised me on the flop I would be more inclined to getting to a cheap showdown or folding.

So no I don't push rockets that hard with out a good reason in a check raised pot, there are other spaces that AA looks better.

So he mini-raises in the worst possible position preflop then gets all his money in as a huge dog and you're the fish?

I'll play the hand exactly like you did every day of the week and twice on tuesdays. 97s is a nice hand in LP with a few limpers, and the hand that I limp then fold to a miniraise isn't invented yet. Other things that makes it even sweeter is that I have position and the raiser is tilting.

In the SB I reason like this, I'll raise with *fewer* hands because my position sucks, but I'll make the raises *bigger* to discourage action... because my position sucks. I hate playing out of position so much that I don't really mind if I just pick up the blinds and limpers with an AA raise.

Anyway, nice hand, well played.

just tell him you had the the moral favorite preflop so you had to call.