Weird hand played at a local poker room. Sat down less than thirty minutes and haven't tangled much with villain prior to this hand. Table as a whole plays relatively loose though and I have yet to see a raise that doesn't get called in at least one spot preflop.

Hero: 30s, Asian, probably hasn't been labeled by anyone because either they don't label or because enough hands haven't been shown down. Stack: ~$255

Villain: Late 40s, nice talkative guy. Besides blinds hasn't played much of anything.

Hero is in BB with K4
Five limpers including villain OTB and hero checks (Pot $12)

Flop is K94
Checks to button who bets $6 and hero calls. UTG+1 calls as well (Pot $30)

Turn is 7 and everyone checks through

River is K.

Hero leads for $20 and UTG+1 flats. Button raises to $85.

Hero?

Lead flop. Checking is fine, it's the passive route.

If I checked, I guess check/call it down and if it checks on turn, I'm leading river on the larger size.



As played on river, rivers seem like a jam.

Flushes call, and worse fullhouses.

You only lose to K7 and K9 and you get called by so much more.

You should post stack sizes of your villains.

Flatting river is really passive.

Your line is a little passive for me. I would rather lead flop a fair portion of the time. You find out if anybody is really interested in the pot and can get called by lots of worse hands on the flop. Lots of single diamond hands will call now that are likely to give up later.

On the river I would sigh/call. Your hand is too good to give up without a solid read but there is way too much interest for this to be comfortable. I would agree with Dochrohan if this was heads up because flushes will pay you off a lot. Here you bet and got both called and then raised. There are worse hands that could have raised but they mostly fold when you jam multiway. You are mostly targeting worse boats but the way the hand played out K9/K7 is more likely the 99/77.

I just call here in game, doubt he has a flush.

It seems to me it's probably 50/50 whether his boat beats us. So shovelling more money doesn't make much difference IMO.

K9/K7 is not much different than a set in the way this line played out.

What's more likely on river?

I guess the big issue is will the guy fold smaller flushes here? Will he fold bigger Kx?

If he is the guy to check behind turn with a smaller flush, is he the guy who will not be prepared to call vs a river re-jam?

Why would 2p check turn but sets not?

Because bad passive players do that. The board is scary and two pair just wants to get to showdown cheaply until river but a set will feel obligated to bet. Nobody here has shown a lot of aggression, pairs raise preflop some of the time and sets bet/raise flop and turn more aggressively. Bad passive players limp in with K9s/K7s and then get scared on this board.