Game is $500 max and there are occasional $5 button straddles. This hand button straddle is on.

Folds to hero UTG open to $20 with AQ ($500 stack)
UTG1 flats $20 (older Asian man seems loose. $280 stack)
Button straddle flats $20 (MAWG bad LAG, $600 stack)

Flop Q97 Pot ~$60

Hero leads $40
UTG1 flats $40
Button folds

Turn 6 Pot ~ $140

Hero checks
UTG1 bets $120

I dont have much info to work with in about 30mins with this guy. Initial impression he seems a bit loose pre-flop mostly just been limping.

Not sure if checking the turn or betting around $80 is best here? Obv betting can't be bad and we can just put him on the river (or call his turn jam). I decided to check thinking I'm obv not folding to any reasonable bet and I don't mind if he checks behind since I can go for value on a variety of rivers.

Now he bet's huge and it's a little weird cuz he only has $100 behind. Flat the $120 or put him in right here?

Thanks

I prefer betting turn over checking. I think just putting him AI for $220 is not too bad of an idea either. If he only shoves hands we beat to our bet, we can commit ourselves against his shove with a bet of ~$90-100.

As played, once we check & he blasts it, I think I like calling. I don't see your typical 1/2 player do this too often with a dominated Qx, so I think we're beat quite often. $120 is a super serious bet in the $1/2 games I play, straddle or not. Especially from a seemingly loose/passive player. There's enough chance for us to catch up & get paid, or possibly be good when he checks behind river for me to want to call, though. Call turn, shove rivers that improve us, check/fold rivers that don't.

I go $30 pre because of stack depth, position, and description of straddle. You want people to be making a mistake by calling 33s or 67s here.

OOP against a loose Asian man and a bad LAG, I like a flop check. If there was a FD on board I think $40 is fine. This is a solid two streets of value hand

AP just keep betting. I agree with $80 turn. Put the remaining $140 in on most rivers

AP sigh fold and give him $5 to show. The information will come in handy later

How are you folding top pair with nut flush draw here??????


Bet larger preflop OOP with button straddle in play. At least 25

Like flop as played.

I honestly am not to sure about what's the best move on turn. I really don't know if there's a wrong answer besides folding. Although I think if you choose to call you'd have to check call most rivers??

Could just shove and get it in and I can see a loose guy just getting it in with J-10 because he feels pot committed and when you're behind you at least have a lot of outs unless he has 10-8 or 10-8d

If he has 100 behind just gii

Agree we should bet turn, losing mostly to 99,77, t8, but have to charge worse hands. And we are live when behind.

I didn’t see that we had diamonds. I’m folding every other combo of AQ though. With AQdd CRAI AP. I don’t like flatting because a loose Asian man may be doing this a draw

I typically don’t take lines like this so maybe we should we stacking off wider against this guy I dunno

Just rip now AP, but double barrelling is good as well

AI.

If you call turn, would you X/F river at 4.8-1?

I would have b/c turn but AP this is the easiest CRAI.

If I knew with certainty he’d bet turn than I would have preferred CRAI.