Imagine that hand with full stacks.

Now get back to the last line of my last post...

ISF theorem!

I don't think he's ever written it up all nice and neat, but my understanding is that we should bluff more when our range is better than our opponent's range. In this case, as the BB, it is. The flop doesn't really change much. My problem with playing this too passively is that if we're just letting the better take it down when we miss, we're letting him take it down WAY too often. We NEED to be sticking some $ in with air, otherwise we're just giving equity away to the villain... he's the bad guy.

P.S. That particular villain probably would have fist pump called me with 66. Unless he's involved in this discussion or he's capable of leveling me THAT completely, it's difficult to call with ace high even though I've tried to build a reputation for going apeshit after the flop. If stacks were deeper, he could push over the top of my 3bet, so I probably would have folded to the check raise.