I'm four orbits into the game, my image is tight. V1 is tight-passive, this is my first encounter with this player. There were two occasions that led me to believe that villain likes to bet POT when he has a premium holding. Once OTR with two pair. Again into three opponents on a 4s 5s 6c 3c board. Other than these two hands, villain plays Limp, Check, Fold.

HERO: ($200) Button, 5h 6h
V1: ($192) MP3, Kh 7h


PRE: Folded around, V1 limps $2, Hero raises to $7, SB calls $7, V1 calls $7

F: 3h 9h Qh ($23) SB checks, V1 bets $22, Hero raises to $88, SB folds, V1 raises AI. Hero calls.

Notice villains initial flop bet. It's pot sized and he shipped it fairly quickly after I raised.

So, I'm interested in what you guys think. Is this a call or a fold? Thanks for taking the time to check out the hand cheers!

Snap call with these stacks if you're raising SCs pre. At 150bb+ it's a tougher spot since their flop shove range is almost always a flush instead of set or TP or Ah

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I'd raise a bit larger pre. I think $7 is pretty much always getting called and stacks aren't deep enough to warrant raising as a sweetener.

You flopped a flush and a passive V is shoveling chips into the middle. You're not loving it here, but there should be enough sets and 2P in V's range that you should call it off.

I think every street could have better sizing. Isolating a fit/fold type player with 65s on the button is good but it needs to be bigger to actually isolate or have a chance of taking the pot down preflop. I'd make it $10 at least.

Potting the flop for half of your stack and folding to a shove is bad. V can have a hand like AhQx and be shoving because he feels pot committed. I think most of V's range is flushes here, but your odds are too good to fold.

I would raise smaller if you're not comfortable stacking off with this hand against this player. If you make it $60 you can more reasonably fold to a shove, you don't scare off as many weaker hands and you have a good stack size to shove the turn. Most players are pretty transparent on monotone boards, especially "passive" players. If they're betting big they usually have a very strong hand.