[Jezza]

This was a really interesting hand I played this morning.

I dunno whether or not to post the hand step by step or just put it all up to the river action. Meh ill put it all in bar what I finally did on the river.

Ok well my opponent in this hand is a LAG player. Hes a bit of a strange one. he does frequently raise preflop and seems to play pretty well amassing big stacks. However I have also seen him do completely stupid things like open raises to 20bb and weird pushes. Ive seen him both play hands tremendously well and also fcuk up completely 5mins later I guess hes a bit jekyll and hyde. Creates action in the game tho.

Ok onto the actual action. He is in the BB and I am in the SB. Its folded to me and I have A4diamonds. I chose to just limp rather than raise. This was because my opponent here is liable to call me with any two if I raise preflop and then I am going to be in a tricky spot out of position with deep stacks against an aggressive player. If he was tight/passive I would raise all day but I dont want to give him an edge over me so I just limp. It also disguises my hand a bit should I hit an ace. He was winning when I joined the table 3 hands ago but he just 1000 on the last hand and has had a stack of 2500 dollars depleted to 1500. I have just started playing and have 1000 approx.

Preflop I limp and he checks....

Flop
Kd4s7h

I bet 20 dollars. He flat calls.

Turn
Kd 4s 7h 9d

Awesome turn. Backdoor nut draw. He will never put me on that if it hits. Almost every line here has a compelling argument. Bet out. Check/Raise or Check/Call. It is personal preference/opponent dependant. I was a bit wary of his flop call and unsure of his hand and being against an aggro player I did NOT want to get raised massive on this now sweet draw so I checked. He bet the pot (60 dollars) . I flat called.

River
Kd 4s 7h 9d Ac

Well I hit my two pair. I am not going to go too into my thought process here as it will spoil the results. What would you do here? Check/Call? Bet/Call a raise? Bet/Fold to a raise? Check/Raise? What do you put him on to do these things?

I checked, he bet 80. I raised to 240 and he thought for a second before going all in for about 600 more.

Call or Fold and what do you put him on and why to do either option in my spot?

Jez