Quote Originally Posted by Element187
i would fold it, who cares if he's pushing you around with middle pair ..in fact hes not pushing you around, he has you beat preflop.
Yes, it's about 55/45 in his favor.

why risk your stack for only 4x the BB raise you tossed in... let him think he is pushing you around, and sting him with the goods later.
I already touched on that. But in more detail: if a guy is acting after me on 2/3 of the hands we play together and raises me out of two consecutive pots where I have decent hands (and raised before the flop), he's going to get a taste for blood. At some point I have to lay down the law just to keep him out of my face. This isn't just about whether I will win this particular hand, it's about table image and how I will do against him for as long as he is sitting with me. In a full ring game you can afford to camp and bust him; in 6max I'm not going to be that weak. I like to command some respect at those tables, it's the only way to make any money.

if it was a tourney, sure your trying to win, go for it. ring games your trying to win money, so wait til you have the best of it... all this macho ego bullshit is goign to make you go broke, let it go move on to the next hand... save the pissing matches for the tournaments
If you are in a short-handed game with someone pushing you off a lot of pots, you'll go broke slowly anyway. You can call it a pissing match but I think it's important to show that you're not just handing your money away. The occasional re-raise I will definitely respect, but when a guy comes over the top of me two or three hands in a row, I start to get suspicious. And I feel like at some point I'm going to have to make a move on him, or leave the table for greener pastures.

Not saying I was 100% right to push here, but I think it has merit. Assuming my read was right (and it was) it's almost a coinflip, just slightly in his favor. If there's even a 5% chance he'll fold I break even on the play; any greater chance and I'm actually coming out ahead. I don't see how this is a bad idea. Even if he calls every single time I'm not losing that much. The only worry is if he has kings or aces, but here I had a pretty good reason to think he had a lower pair than that... namely, I had seen him pull that same move on someone else with tens. It's also more common to re-raise that way with weaker pairs in 6max, because players are trying to take down the pot now and not have to do any more thinking. They get defensive with vulnerable hands. I don't have any proof on this, but I bet that same guy re-raises less when he has aces or kings.