Originally Posted by RHCNNN

I have a problem that reoccurs frequently in my game. Often when playing against one dimensional players, I find myself reading into situations more deeply than I should.
For example:
I'm playing in a home tourney last night. It gets down to final 2, and me and the other guy have roughly even stacks. It goes back and forth for a little while, and the other guy is kind of fishy, pretty much a calling station, but has been able to make standard lay downs too. A couple of times I've came over the top of him (both having and not having a hand) and gotten him to fold. Anyways on a particular hand I called the BB, and we checked all the way down to the river. The pot has like 8 chips in it (we were playing each chip worth 1) and then on the river I check, and he raises like 15. The board is uncoordinated and raggedy, and I don't think he has top pair (matching the only king on the board), because he had been raising with top pair frequently... so I go all in, and he calls with a weird ass straight that he rivered.

The reason I raised him on the end is because I thought to myself "Why would he bet so much into a small pot if he WANTED me to call (ie: he has a good hand)? " I figure raising that much he doesn't want to showdown so I put him all in. I lose. DOH!!!!

I find myself in this situation a lot, misreading people's big bets as bluffs, or small bets as traps. I guess it's a matter of figuring out what level people are thinking on... but uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I don;t know.

Any comments on this type of thing?