Excellent summary of your thoughts. It's good to write them all out to get a better idea of how you were thinking in the hand and also bring out some history etc. that can help analyze the situation more effectively.

I think you should copy/paste this hand in the BC as well as your thoughts on it so some discussion can get started since some of the best contributors to the BC don't browse through the hands in the Operations forum as often.

I'm not quite sure what to think exactly but I'll say this for now:

Quote Originally Posted by al yell
meta/gameflow: I'd just played a hand with him at another table. I flatted 99 from SB to his BTN raise then donked a AK9r flop. He raised, I shoved, he called and showed AQ.
You have a read that he isn't folding top pair or an overpair - yet this is essentially what you are trying to do in this hand. Whether or not he believes you have it, he's going to call down anyway because he's a station. Even if this player KNOWS you are taking the line to represent a set/boat or whatever, he's not going to talk himself into folding. Especially after he lost a big pot - he's going to want to get that money back however he can, and if he has top pair as the preflop raiser, regardles of whether or not you stacked him before with a stronger hand, he's going to call down anyway most of the time.

If you think you have the best hand, raising only folds worse and gets calls from better in this case, so given that, theoretically, floating seems like it would be the best play.

Basically, just don't waste fancy plays on players who aren't thinking nor care what they stack off with.