any more pics ginger? 

Is he serious?

Tough hand man. How can he raise again there without the nuts?

Unless its an unbelievably good bluff i.e. - He knows that you have the Ace (since you raised on the end) and knows that you know he has the Ace (dont you?) and he knows that you are capable of laying it down. He'd have to have played with you an awful lot to make this read; I think it's a very risky bluff, one that I would expect VERY few people to make.

So I think he's probably got it so good fold.

One thing that could be said is echoed from Sklansky - "dont raise (or bet) if you wouldn't like a re-raise". So if you are not going to call a re-raise dont raise the river here.
Dont know if Sklansky had something like this in mind here though as its difficult not to value bet the 2nd nuts but in fairness would you expect a call from the Qclubs here?

 if the cl wins the hand you get third anyway.

Only the top 2 pay.

Was about to post the exact same thing.

6 handed you have a decent enough chance of your hand being the best and a push getting through. However I agree with ifm and would have waited.

Looks like player 2 has a big hand - as the chip leader he wouldnt make that call unless he did so.

The equity you gain from player 1 being knocked out outweighs that of racing (at best) to triple your stack.

please... what do you want us to say? Don't open the pot with the 3rd best starting hand in holdem? Dont get outdrawn by KJ suited?

This is just a bad beat story. Sorry, make that a very boring bad beat story.

nice read

If you are going to fold on this flop then you should have folded preflop.

I don't like the raise pre-flop, if you raise with small pair then you really want everyone to pass. Tench isn't going anywhere to that raise and unless you hit a set you'll never know where you are on the flop withour risking a lot of chips.

In this situation it is better to either just call and try to flop a set or just pass. Save raising with these kind of hands for when no-one has entered the pot.

Good post regarding raise only when you are opening the pot. Never just call though here IMO.

Betting the ace is bad idea none the less though? My idea was that that was the 'scare card' I needed to continue the bluff... (and I thought AK was unlikely)

I see your thinking but this guy has a lot of chips to spare and the pot is pretty big by the time you go all in, so its less likely youre going to be able to push him off his king.

imo you haven't got the chips to change gears here. Your play here should be dictated by your stack, and raising into any pot here could well be your last. I would limp 44 or push with it. I don't like his play much but having limped his hand i would call the raise to, i would have re raised you on the flop.

with your stack i would just be looking for opportunities to get it all in pre flop if others have entered the pot and only looking to steal in late position in unopened pots.

Limping with the 44 here is bad advice. Blinds are too high, its either a raise or fold.

I like the way you re-raise on the flop but you did not re-raise enough.

$6 more into a pot of ~ $30 is giving him far too good odds to call. There isnt any possible holding that he should lay down to that raise. So because of that you dont really know what he is calling with on the flop.

Your only source of information about his hand comes from his min-raise on the flop. In my experience a lot of players min-raise on the flop with a made hand eg TJ here but so do many with top pair. I think given this you were right to check/fold the turn.

In summation, the major mistake you make though is too small a raise on the flop. A decent raise makes him fold top pair and ends the hand there and then. And if he calls a big raise you can assume you are beat and check/fold the turn.

[Genious]

the best bit i thought was him complaining about it, then spelling "you" as "u"

Genious

See above.......

the best bit i thought was him complaining about it, then spelling "you" as "u"

Genious

Yeah but thats not a spelling mistake is it. It's a universal abbreviation.

I wouldnt like it but Id proabably fold again. He's gotta have at least a queen here really and your kicker's not great.

[LOSING]

Can you get away LOSING less? Notice the difference from what u put, sorry but that misspelling rags me loads. Mainly see yanks getting it wrong and we know what retards they are!

Anyway I agree with Whisper, unavoidable really