Quote Originally Posted by jmrogers7
Dale - Don't take this the wrong way, but it sounds like that other guy just schooled you? What I mean by that is perhaps seeing him re-raise you with A9o in that previous hand planted a false sense of him simply making a play on the pot with aggression. So, perhaps maybe you thought this might be the hand to teach him a lesson.

I can't say that I fault you because it is human nature to want to show up the tourney aggressor. You just got played and he had the good hand he was waiting for at the moment he needed it in order to take advantage of the image he had built at the table.
I agree with most of this, except I can say that my play wasn't really motivated by trying to get back at him. More than anything I was just feeling the pressure of being low man at the table, and knowing any of the remaining aggressive players left (and there were several) could put me all in at any point without seriously endangering themselves. I do think that he set me up for a hand like this, which is really one of the main functions of aggressive play - to get people to call you for the wrong reasons when your hand is strong. Usually that would be me initiating that dynamic, but not this time. He definitely got the better of me. I am not used to being short-stacked with that many people left, so I think I'm still working out for myself when a situation like that becomes truly desperate, and you just need to pick two and go.