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Message: [QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 6661151, member: 397965"] You played the hand completely fine. It always sucks to put in money on the early streets as a call, and then have to give up later. But you cant play fundamentally sound poker without doing this. On the flop you cant do much folding getting 4:1, and you beat AK plus all his bluffs. On the turn however you are getting a much worse price, and this is one of the worst hands in your range to continue with. So even though the 6 pairing changed nothing, it is fine to fold now, knowing that sometimes this guy probably did bluff you. But the way to combat that is to get sticky with hands higher in your range like AQ or KQs. With those hand you call turn, and you also call a river jam. You are still only bluff catching, but at least you block some of his fat value like QQ and AA/KK, whereas with 99 you mainly block J9s and K9s, which are potential bluffs. [/QUOTE]