Villian: fairly active and aggressive player, based on his stories has been playing PLO for a long long time, $1100 directly to hero's left and he is UTG

hero: card dead so has recently took a few pots away from villian when he bet the flop and hero check raised with meager holdings... mainly because villian has been fairly active and seems to take down pots a lot... so keep in mind he might be a little annoyed with my check raises

pre: villian limps UTG, few callers, hero in BB has 5332 and checks...

flop: ($20) J53 rainbow, checks to villian who pots it for $20, folds to hero who check raises with bottom set to $80, villian instantly repots to $280, hero calls

turn: ($580) K, bringing 2 hearts on the board, hero has no draws... hero checks, villian instantly pots and has maybe $230 behind... hero???

the main factors in my opinion was the history/dynamic ie prior 2 times when i check raised him off pots and the fact that he 4bet the flop and hero is blocking mid set...

since the board was rainbow, should i not have check raised?

Folding flop to the 3bet

You block 5's and its unlikely he has some kind of run down that connects with the low part of the board. I would call flop and check raise turn. c/r flop removes lots of his top pair combos, and narrows his range considerably to raggedy overpairs or top set.

I hate the x/r. We flop bottom set in an unraised 4-way pot on a fairly dry board, so I'm absolutely not trying to play for stacks here. Check/call for me, and probably call all the way to showdown on most runouts. Leading has some merit against loose/passive opponents, but I'd be folding to a raise usually.

After we decide to x/r I fold to the 3b. We're not far ahead of anything other than J5 (which we block) or a random frustration spew. JJ has us crushed and vs a wrap we're flipping while oop.

What was the plan when you hero called the flop? The K is a brick, so nothing has really changed. If we called flop then I guess we're planning to call all the way down now.

Its going to feel pretty bad though when you get broke in this spot chasing a $20 pot.

Flop c/r is awful

He has jj

Ok, thanks for all the input. The consensus that the c/r on the flop was terrible. I totally agree now. So is the right play c/c all the way down assuming reasonable turn and river? or do you find a fold on the river if he bets all the way?

Yeah c/c down. Without a specific read on the player I probably can't find a fold on most runouts, so if he pots all streets we lose $260 to JJ. He could also barrel off with 2pr though so its worth a call.

Lower the spr of this situation and we have more options, but with a strong non-nut hand when we're deepstacked in an unraised pot the goal is just to realize equity at showdown.

you've induced the 3bet from JJxx. now you must call.

/level