Had a weird situation in a $0.25/$0.50 hand on Paciific Poker. Weird in that I was in small blind with Aces, yet everybody folded through to me! I thought to myself I'm going to play this through a little differently. And I'm looking for some comments on the play. Whether in principle or not it seems okay or whatever else u may want to add.
What I'll do is explain the action and my thoughts as I go through.
My (SB) stack - $52.83
Villains (BB) stack - $90.84
So action folds to me. If I raise to between $1.50 and $1.75 I reckon the villain will fold as he is quite solid, but capable of mixing it up. So I thought limping would be the best play.
Villain raises to $1.50, Hero re-raises to $6.50, Villain calls (Pot now $12.35)
My thinking here was to confuse him. I have played very straight forward up to this point and already showed down solid hands. I was hoping that my massive reraise would be seen as a bluff so he would re-shove.
Flop came down
I push all in for $46.83 more. My thinking here is this - because I've played so solid up to this point will it come across as a big bluff or having a monster?? At the time I felt that I could get him to call all his chips because I had shown big hands down already played straight forward from a range of TPTK, sets and a flush.
Just looking for opinions really. Is this a play that could be +EV against giant stacks as in this case? Or you would you suggest just playing the more straight forward way of raising to around $1.75, and hope he calls?
Thanks
Baz