If you are right about him not thinking you had a lot of chips left, that might scare me out of calling (if I was thinking of it). Now (with possible misinformation), he may be value betting, thinking that you don't have so much so he might as well put it all in, since he is pot committed for your small stack. If he realized you had a lot left, there is room for him to bet less and fold to a raise.
You have to go back and reread the situation in the new context of you not having a life-threatening chip stack, from his point of view. Did he bet enough to cover you because he thought you wouldn't chance going broke for the little you had left and that you would have put it in yourself with any hand that can call him, or is it the value situation I described above, and he was just being cautious until he felt confident that your checking on each street wasn't some sort of trap?
Barry
Last edited by Barry Greenstein; 01-13-2009 at 04:11 PM.
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