Hi Yen
Lol yen I never even noticed you there tonight! Did you take any pots off me you bam
. I was on a couple of tables and played a few sessions. I did well actually won about 2k but I seriously never noticed you (nor did I get your messages till I came back through here, I was playing in the TV room). Which table were you on? The one I won a 1200 dollar pot w 99 full or the one that I was just kind of hovering around 450 on for the whole night?
As for the hand in question. When he minraises the flop you have to wonder what he has. I dont think he raises the flop with any A apart from AK (and then if he has AK he doesnt minraise, he raises bigger probably). He just calls with AT AJ and the like. He MIGHT have A6 or A2 for two pair but I think its most likely either a flush draw, a set or a bluff. With the former he could use the minraise to build the pot incase he hits/get you to fold if you dont have the A and/get the cheapest possible rivercard if you do have it and call him. A set is possible as a PP is definately in his preflop range and the minraise is a little bit disconcerting as it can be a strong hand pretty often. An outright bluff is also not out of the question. Basically here if you have raised with any hand bar an A (yes an A is a big part of your HU raising range but then again so are a lot of other things that are now scared by the A on the flop) then you are going to hate his minraise and quite probably fold to it. From what I remember of this guy he is a regular and not a bad player so I wouldnt put it past him to try this. This would lead me to think like I said before that I would think he didnt have the A as well but I would be a little unsure what he had. I would have called like you did and taken a turn. I would have check/folded a heart turn. The turn you got I would have check/folded to a large bet (He knows you have the A when you call the flop so I doubt he is going to continue a bluff but he would obv try and bet his good hands again) but if I checked and he checked behind I would have check/called on a non heart river putting him on the flush draw/bluff from the flop and not the made hand. As it is you chose just to go through with your hand on what is a pretty safe turn for you. This isnt bad as it stops any free cards from coming off if he does have a heart draw which is a definate possibility. However you do hang yourself here if he has what is now probably a FH. By checking this turn I do give a free card to the flush draw but I also avoid being stacked by a set and earn extra money when I encourage him to bet on the river as a bluff. I think checking the turn is probably the better play but betting like you did isnt bad either yen.
Jez