Villain (CO): 20s black guy, TAG reg (covers)
Hero (SB): late 20s Asian guy, villain knows hero as TAG reg ($300)

Villain opens $10 from CO. Hero calls 99 in the SB. BB folds.

Flop: T76 ($20)

Hero checks. Villain bets $20. Hero calls.

Turn: J ($57)

Hero checks. Villain bets $25. Hero ???

You can easily just fold the flop to the full pot C-bet on this board OOP with second pair,where near every turn is a bad card for you or an overcard wich will lead to a myriad of sticky situations.

At least now fold the turn when another overcard hits.

For the most part just give up the flop, the call heads up OOP was mostly to set mine and you didn't hit. Even if you know villain can be c-betting a lot you should mostly give up to the pot sized bet.

After that this needs more information about villain. Regular TAG doesn't give enough information about his opening range, his c-betting frequency and what he gives up on the turn. The weak turn betting size looks favorable but you want a villain that has some air in his range and will often give up one pair to a turn raise. Depending on opponent a turn raise can be good or bad, there isn't a generic answer.

Raise flop to $70.

V's turn sizing looks kind of suspicious to me, like a weak top pair hand (QT/KT come to mind). So the real Q is can we call, can we rep diamonds as well if we miss? If that is the case, i might call here and eval the river. Although I agree that the standard play would be to just muck (or CR turn/lead river).

Preflop:

3bet > fold > flat

You actually think he will lose money as a big favorite (58%+) against his opponent's range? Positional disadvantage is not that large.

I was mostly making a point but flatting the sb is literally the worst play in poker. It is a huge torch under any HU scenario and only gets okish in mw scenarios but its still mostly a torch.

Fold flop

Dont fold the flop unless you’re experiencing a stroke.

3-bet pre and call flop as played. Raising is an overplay and folding is absurd.

Call the turn for this sizing. Tons of bluffs improved and his sizing went down.

You're not gonna like what happens next

For sure in tougher games I would only 3 bet the SB. That's what I do in online poker anyways. But in such a soft game unless the BB is a competent player who can abuse my capped range, I'd rather just 3 bet stronger hands with bluffs mixed in than a hand like 99 and face a stronger range postflop than if I had just flatted.

In this hand BB looked ready to muck his hand so I was effectively closing the action anyways.

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Villain (CO): 20s black guy, TAG reg (covers)
Hero (SB): late 20s Asian guy, villain knows hero as TAG reg ($300)

Villain opens $10 from CO. Hero calls 99 in the SB. BB folds.

Flop: T76 ($20)

Hero checks. Villain bets $20. Hero calls.

Turn: J ($57)

Hero checks. Villain bets $25. Hero raises to $90. Villain calls.

River: 7 ($237)

Hero ???

Can't check for obvious reasons. Time to merge/rep diamonds and bet $150 to hopefully get better 1 pair hands to fold. We cannot win at SD with our holding. 7 might actually be the best card in the deck for us to barrel here as now AT/KT/QT can't beat 87/97/75 ether.