Hero ($450) mid-late 20's white guy, no gear, rec player. Haven't shown down a ton, but winning. Been at the table for close to 2 hours.

Villain (covers by a lot) late 30's white guy, very talkative. Seems competent, but is probably playing too much and takes a few weird lines. Is a fan of floating pre in blinds or limp/calling in EP and then donking flop over pre-flop raisers.

Hands of note:
Hero calls 7 pre in LP with 610ss and flop comes K63s, checks around. Turn something non-threatening and V leads, folds to hero who calls. River another sort of blank, V fires basically full pot or slightly more, hero calls and mhig. V says 'gutsy call'.

Hero raises LP with q10o, v calls from blinds. Flop Jxx V leads, hero floats. Turn ace, v bets, hero raises ~3x and v folds.


The hand:
V limps EP, 1 caller, Hero raises to 12 in LP with KK, V calls, other caller goes all-in for 21. Hero flats after a few seconds, V flats.

First debatable spot obviously, but I feel like we get more value flatting here since V will flat with 100% of his l/c range pre. If we raise any reasonable amount on top, it looks fairly strong and V will fold most of his marginal hands. He will bet and possibly overplay mid-high pairs post if he flops a Q, J, 10 or something.


Flop ($60) 742
V leads 40 into a dry side pot, hero?

Call. He's doing this with a wide range based on your description and there is no need to narrow it here. An ace on the turn sucks a bit but we have the back door flush draw and so a heart isn't great but it isn't so terrible.

Flat. Let him bluff at this. If heart hits, you have Kh redraw. You're only scared of sets and this V has fired air in many spots. Flat flop, raise turn. Only really scary card is non-heart A. Against a V like this, esp since you didn't re raise the limper's shove preflop, he probably doesn't have a pair. I put him on something like QJ or AJ looking to blow you off your hand.

I go bigger pre, assuming that such sizing is not unusually large in this game. $12 is my standard open in most $1/2 games, plus $2 per limper.

Meh, I'll usually ISO here, but given V's propensity to take weird lines OOP, I can get behind a flat after the 3-bet.

Board is super dry. Raising folds out worse, and there are very few draws in his range, imo. I just plan to flat/flat/flat unless things get weird or we spike another K. I'm not trying to play for stacks here, and given the history hand I think he'll often value cut himself three streets with A7 and 88-JJ.

Does not compute. If you put him on air, why are you raising turn? Do you want to blow him off his air range?

Pretty much this...

In game, I probably 4-bet. Flatting with the KK's may be best against this opponent, though.

When vil donks into pfr like this will he continue barelling? How likely is he to barrel/value own himself for 3 streets?

An EP limp/call he should have a bunch of draws here. It's really hard to smash this flop. And usually when they smash they go for the c/r. Raise/calling sounds best. Give him the chance the 3bet shove the millions of draws in his range here.

Have to assume when V leads this flop he absolutely MUST continue on basically any turn. Sizing is big enough where this isn't a blocking bet, so he's got something he's willing to at least double barrel. Haven't gotten a chance to see whether he would bet river as well. But the turn bet Is coming, so if we flat flop what's our plan on a blank turn? On a heart?