Sorry, havent had access to a computer in the last couple of days. Sorry as well for the mix up, i didnt have a flush draw, that was intended to be a 8 of diamonds on the turn. Anyway, here is my processing through the hand:
The reraise preflop really could mean anything because of the way he had been playing that day and so i really didnt give him credit for much of a hand, but therre was no point in reraising because he either folds or goes all in with abetter hand than 99.
On the flop, i knew for sure he was going to follow up his bet, he had to really unless he was expecting me to bet out and wanted to chech raise but he really cant do that because this is what will happen: He checks, after the reraise to me, at this point i will figure him for a pp under kings or ace high maybe queen high but i know he probably isnt checking a king to me. However, he could but then he knows that if he has the king then iprobably dont and therefore i am going to check right behind him. Now we are assuming that he checks to me and doesnt have a king, well then when it gets to me, he knows that i could potentially check my king right behind him so then he has no idea where i am at. Or if i bet i could have such a wide range of hands that if he raises then he either wins, say 100 or doubles me up, because i would be the one with the leverage in the hand. As you can see this is an extremely phsycological heads up battle.
Anyway, so he bets out and he could really have anything, ranging from aces, to a pair of kings, to a pair of fives, to a high card. I call reletivly quickly because i want him to still have no idea where i sit in the hand, obviously by calling he could put me on a flush draw, probably some sort of pair but still not a very good idea of where im at.
Finally, here is the big point in the hand of argument. The turn is a blank, sorry for the typo, and he checks to me. The way he plays, he either has a hand like qq-66 which means he is between top pair and is afraid i just called him with the king, aces and wants to trap, has nothing and is giving up, or has nothing and wants to make a play. Based on my read on him in the hand i bet out because this as well is how i would play a hand like k9, king bad kicker, just calling on the flop then making a strongish bet on the turn when he checks. I knew that if i dont bet here, I really have no idea where he is at going to the river and so i pretty much hand him over the pot. However, like some of you said, i decided not to make my stand on the flop because if i do this, then what if he raises? He has the potential to do a bluff reraise and so by me raising on the flop, i really get nothing. And also i knew that he was really trying to represent aces in the hand and so he probably was going to reraise me if i raised on the flop no matter if he really had aces or not. So anyway, i really wanted this pot on the turn so i made a relitively strong bet and truly believed i was gonna get it there, well little did i know he had other intentions.
I was extremely surprised after he sat there and talked to himself then pushed me allin? This put me in a really rough spot, and the only way im calling is if i think im good. I dont care if i have whatever percent of my chips in the pot, its still $200, 1/5 of a 5/10 buy in and its not worth throwing away making a crying call even if i put him on kings. So i sat there for probably, 30-45 seconds thinking to myself, what could he have, i played the hand back through my mind and i finally thought i had him set on a hand. A8. An ace may be good enough to reraise preflop, he just tried to follow up on the flop and take it, then on the turn be confused at me betting the 8 when he held the 8. With this read set in my mind, i pushed the rest of my chips in and by his reaction, i knew i had made the right call.
He said "wow, what do you have"
"9s, what do you have"
"just deal it out", this really pissed me off, but it was a home game so what could i do.
River comes the jack of fucking clubs, a seemingly harmless card, but no it wasnt, he had qj of hearts, not a bad beat, but definitly a tough beat.
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