Hi,

V seemed to be quite solid/TAG. He raised to ~$20 like 3-4 times and took it down pf.

History hand with him: Limped family pot (7-ways): I'm in the SB, completing with 22.

Flop came A23 and was planning a c/r but it checked around.
Turn 4, I call V's 2/3 pot bet with the intention to lead rivers when I boat up and possibly c/c when I don't.
River is a J and I call his 60ish bet then making a mistake and showing down my hand before him so he says I'm good and mucks.

I welcome any thoughts on this hand as well but I kinda feel what would've been the correct play (overbet lead flop, c/c turn, lead river with a boat or c/eval without) and decided not to open a separate thread.

Current hand:

There's a $5 UTG straddle and we are UTG+1 with AA and make it $20. Everybody folds besides V who calls in the SB. Effective stacks are around $450.

FLOP (~$49)

T65

V checks, I bet $35, V tank-calls

TURN (~$120)

J

What would your plan be here and OTR? I was thinking that I couldn't extract 3 streets of value from a TAG and was considering a check given that we are not really afraid of any river.

If we don't hit the nut flush on the river, are we calling a near pot-sized bet?

There is a tendency in this forum to label players based on few actions, worse when the labels are off. V has shown zero tendency of TAG. Raising pre and cbetting alone do not make someone a TAG, and playing in a limped family pot of 7 players also does not make this player a TAG. Best recommendation is to stop narrowly typecasting people and make better attempt of recognizing traits of these labels.

Great things about holding Ah in this spot are backdoor draw and decreasing the likelihood of V checkraising. Bet sizing is key and without better information, I would lean toward 1/2 and 2/3 of pot, and plan to bet river unimproved.

+1 to all of this ^

I like betting again, also good post by poke4fun.