Interesting pre-flop action

Araon is a decent player, tricky, likes to check-raise top pair or better post-flop. He has taken two recent (within last seven hands) hits to his stack, one a suckout - may be steaming a bit. But he has shown that he can re-raise and then fold a hand, both pre- and post-flop. No read on the short stack.

***** Hand History for Game 3529647640 *****
$25 NL Texas Hold'em - Friday, February 10, 18:03:53 EDT 2006
Table Table 65723 (6 max) (No DP) (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 2: Araon ( $36.33 )
Seat 4: stressball10 ( $24.25 )
Seat 5: prospect101 ( $32.05 )
Seat 1: yeonhak1 ( $9.42 )
Seat 6: ilovabbeef ( $5.19 )
Seat 3: NEMESlS ( $24.75 )
Araon posts small blind [$0.10].
NEMESlS posts big blind [$0.25].
ilovabbeef posts big blind [$0.25].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to stressball10 [ As Ac ]
stressball10 raises [$1].
prospect101 folds.
ilovabbeef calls [$0.75].
yeonhak1 folds.
Araon raises [$2.90].
NEMESlS folds.
stressball10 calls [$2].

Argue for or against my call here. If you prefer a raise, say why.

Ni Han sir.

If you reraise, he can put you on KK+. If you call, the range of hands he puts you on is probably much wider - any PP and AT+ (possiblly others). That is if you usually call raises with those hands. If you have that read on him and you say he is decent, then he has an idea of hands you call raises with. I've been doing this more often recently, unless I know I can get a guy to get it all in preflop or if there is 1+ more callers.

Stack sizes are important here...

Given the situation, I like it.

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Originally Posted by Fnord

Stack sizes are important here...

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Agreed. The third player I would often consider an x-factor in the hand, and I might want to re-raise just to isolate the tricky guy. But in this case there are two strong possibilities for how the short stack will respond, because he's so short: 1. He flat calls the re-raise, in which case he will probably go all in on most flops - but his stack size makes this a non-issue for me, so I'd consider that outcome the same as being heads up with the tricky player. 2. Goes all in pre-flop just because he only has another $2 left, which traps the tricky player into at least calling - possibly raising again to isolate - and reopens the betting to me.