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Hero in this hand is FoxwoodsFiend and villain is Hold_emNL, aka Durrrr.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $20 BB (8 handed) internettexasholdem.com

Hero ($2266.50)
Button ($4795.50)
SB ($8009)
BB ($2652)
UTG ($1230)
UTG+1 ($7836)
MP1 ($3981)
MP2 ($2271)
Hero in this hand is FoxwoodsFiend and Villain is the one and only Holdem_NL

Preflop: Hero is CO with A, A.
4 folds, Hero raises to $80, 1 fold, SB calls $70, 1 fold.

Flop: ($180) 2, K, 6 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $120, SB calls $120.

Turn: ($420) 9 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero checks.

River: ($420) T (2 players)
SB bets $180, Hero raises to $440, SB raises to $7809, Hero...?

Spazz inducing bluff bet sizing otr by durr? Or just pure genius money whipping bluffing? 78, T9, 99, QJ, TT, Tx? I have no clue. The 180 into 420 pot is suspicious. He is expecting to get called at the very least.

I will say that raising small isn't really worth the thin value you get versus someone as durrr given that he can do a lot of crazy shit, unless you know that he's going to spazz a decent amount of the time that you can just call it off.

I don't have a clue if that this is the case in this situation. Certainly both the small bet and small-ish raise have introduced a lot of levelling concepts that it will probably depend highly on the history.

Oh, and the chance of him having QJ/87 are very slim given he c/c'd the flop, but it is likely he knows that and that's not what he's trying to rep at all. He may have read the river raise as thin value, thinking that he would raise something more nutted like QJ, TT larger, in which case he could 3-bet for value with a lot of two pairs, or bluff.

In the hand FoxwoodsFiend folded and Durrrr showed 88. My mind is still blown to this day.

I don't like the turn check back for a bunch of reasons, but like maybe there was some solid reason not to at the time.