Top pair facing all-in on river

Game type: 1/2 NL
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Misc notes: Opponent recently lost with QQ against a rivered straight
Your hand: A♦Q♠

The setup: Everyone folds to the small blind who raises to $10. A couple of hands ago your opponent lost a big pot with Queens against a rivered straight, but he has been quiet until now. You decide to just call the raise with A♦Q♠. Flop comes:

A♠J♣3♦

Your opponent leads out for $10 and you call. The turn brings:

8♣

Your opponent bet $25 and again you just flat call. The river brings:

J♦

And now your opponent pushes for his/her remaining $71. What to do?

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Sam

Well, the amount bet seems indeed akward and I would probably call it too, but by constantly calling his bets, you just denied yourself information. A re-raise on the flop would have allowed you to know more about his hand.

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Bill

Normally you’d muck the river without much thought, but since your opponent could be on super ninja donkey tilt, I would call.

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Dan L

My first thought was fold here, but after some thought I’m leaning towards call. 2-1 is nice, but it really isn’t great odds here when pretty much all you can beat is a bluff. Even if your opponent is on “Super Ninja Donkey Tilt”, in my experience tight players on tilt don’t raise with 10-4 then bet with absolutely nothing on the flop, they just go way too far with semibluffs and medium strength hands. Here there is no straight or flush draw for him to have been betting all along, but there are hands like J-9 and up that he could easily have been overplaying and suddenly caught a great river with. It seems to me his possible bluffing hands are KQ, and 44 to 10-10 (excluding 8′s). If you’re sure he would always make the desperate river bet with those hands, that should be enough to call. If you think it’s more along the lines of a 50% chance he’s totally tilting this way, it becomes a pretty close decision.

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tsifreak

I call here. Reason being is if a player just tripped he would not go all in like that for one he would want to milk it. I would put him on an Ace or another low pocket pair.
He is going all in to push you out of the hand and the board is a little scary with those 2 jacks out there.
You have to stop and think again here why would he go all in after a 25$ raise and a second jack came out??
If he did have a jack he would not go all in in fear of you folding and lost money he could have gotten out of you buy just playing out the hand.
Its just a goofy play that doesnt make sense and when it doesnt make sense its most likely a big bluff.

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Bob

Terrible play on previous rounds.

This certainly seems like a raise on the flop……… Id be willing to felt on the flop!

Even if you play the hand this way. Villian could easily had AT a lower hand. He is putting you on weak ace whean you actually have storng ace and trying to push you off your hand. He is wanting you to fold.
This is a call.

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