Hero is in SB with 1010 Stack 160

Villain is UTG+1. Young Asian guy that is a regular and fairly talkative. I haven't seen him play too much, but he seems fairly tight/solid preflop but hates letting go of hands after the flop.

Villain limps, stack about 120. Action folds to Hero, raises to 18. BB folds, Villain calls.

Flop is J32

Hero checks, Villain bets 25. Hero calls

Turn is a 8

Hero checks, villain goes all-in. Hero should?

Preflop raise seems a bit big just to iso V

You need to bet this flop. B/f ~30

what's your plan if villain flats our flop bet? On the turn we'll have a $96 pot and $72 effective stacks.

Hero's play does have us guessing as to whether villain has outflopped us or is just value betting a weaker hand, hoping we have AK/AQ

but based on the read i'd say we're in a similar spot if we bet and get called, because villain "does not like to give up on hands postflop" so if we bet 30/35/35 then maybe he'd call down with a weaker pocket pair?

Realize this is a common scenario with 10-10, we'll see an overcard about 2/3 of the time.

Well this is an incredibly awkward hand.

Bet the flop. You don't want to see a Q, K or A on the turn. You probably have the best hand. Getting villain to fold Ax, KQ, etc., is a fine outcome.

If you get called on the flop, you have to check/decide the turn.

Your pre-flop raise is far too big with just one limper.

Bet the flop.

On the river I am probably calling more often than not, but it's really just up to whatever your feel of the situation is at the time. I'm guessing you appeared weak/confused on the flop so I think just call. The bigger issues are the previous streets.

I like the big raise preflop. It sets up a super easy commitment postflop on non-horrendous boards. ETA: Lol at saying the preflop raise is far too big. It's fine. We got huge percentages of our stack in with most likely the best hand in a situation where we want to get this HU and get the chips in ASAP (by the turn).

Flop isn't great, but it isn't horrendous either. With an SPR of ~2.5, I pretty much feel committed on this board and will play for the small remaining stacks.

The only question is how. You said Villain hates letting go of hands preflop, so I would probably just bet biggish on the flop in order to shove the turn and see if he can get away from a small pair vs "put us on AK".

If he's really really bluffy at any sign of weakness, I'd probably just check/shove the flop (get some dead money from him, and then get the rest of the chips in since our hand is quite vulnerable to overcards and he might check behind turn if we give him the chance).

As played (which I'm not really a fan of), I'd probably call since we've simply put in too many of our chips to fold, are good against a lot of hands who might think they are good, are in a shortstack situation where villain's can easily get their chips in with as little as a wing and a prayer, have shown weakness postflop, etc.

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