6 handed, 1/3, V and Hero are
$360 deep. V is drinking and playing first time here. Inquired earlier if there's a bad beat here, etc. Seems like a rec player.
Hero raises to $12 in EP with T
T
V calls
BTN, SB and BB call
Flop ($60): 8
3
4
SB and BB check, Hero bets $30, V quickly raises to $80/90, folds to Hero ?
I know this is a raise $15 preflop/bet $50/fold OTF spot... but my image/history at the table gave me the feeling that I was going to face resistance in this hand and most other stacks besides V were roughly $100-$150 anyway so barring the preflop mistake, I decided to bet small/call against them and bet small/fold against V. So here's the history:
(i) Since V was sitting to Hero's immediate left, he had made it $6 blind UTG twice or thrice earlier, got 4-5 callers everytime, and Hero would make it $30-$40 each time with JJ/QQ/JJ, everyone would fold and Hero started looking FOS after doing it more than once. V would laugh and pass a comment "You could buy me beers with all those $6s I give you everytime".
(ii) Also, every time Hero raised pf, V had a tendency to call in position. One hand Hero raises pf, V calls, Hero cbets into him and another caller and both fold.
(iii) Another hand, Hero raised in MP with K
Q
, V called again, flop comes J
T
8
, Hero check/calls $17, turn 9
, Hero check/raises $30 to $90 and V tank-folded.
So it seems like the table is getting tired of Hero, especially V.
Therefore, although the above hand is a standard b/f, I'm not sure if I should play it differently 5-handed with a ****ty image OOP. Also, I don't want to level myself into thinking a LLSNL villain is raising my cbet to outplay me with 3 others left to act with say, a flush draw, 99 or some trappily-played overpairs. Also, I'm not sure if his range has all sorts of junk like 34, 48 that flopped two pair since my pfr was pretty small.
Are we levelling ourselves and should fold here regardless of history?