Table: Wednesday, 4:30, 1/2, 9 handed.

Hero: I've limped in maybe 1 hand in 2+ hours. Raised every other hand that I've been in. Very active on my button. Overall raising ~20% of hands, I showed down J9o that I raised otb and the table was a bit surprised at how loose I was opening there, so I assume I have a laggy image. Covers table.

V1: Terribad rec player. Plays blackjack. Bought in for $100, lost it, bought in for $200 lost it, bought in for $150 more and lost most of it, opening weak hands OOP, and calling down with most pieces of the board, and making weird river bluffs for his stack. Now sitting on $30. 5 hands ago he stuck it in from the button with $29 and didn't show. He limped in once since then and folded the flop.

CO: Short stacked middle aged lady with $90, seems to call too much pre flop. Not really any aggression overall.

BTN: Passive nitty villain. ~$300

SB: Average 1/2 player. Limps too often, calls too often. Nothing terribly notable about him. ~$250.

BB: Same as the SB.

Hand:
V shoves UTG for $30
a few folds
Hero raises KQs in the HJ to $60

Thoughts?

I don't see why you need to raise to ISO here. Call would be better.

I don't like the raise, since it basically puts your money at risk to protect his all in. Plus, a $30 raise is enough to make most people fold most hands at 1/2.

A call is probably fine. I think you're pretty much flipping against his range. I'd probably fold, though, for the same reason.

Calling is better you lose less when someone else wakes up with a hand and 4 bets you out of the pot. Basically worse is never calling so the raise accomplishes nothing. Not to mention we still have lots of played left to act.

Calling is fine as long as you aren't folding if 90 dollar Asian lady ships and you are folding if button ships.

I really don't see a need to iso either. Our hand doesn't play terrible post flop anyway if a blind who calls too much decides to tag along.

Raise to 90.

You have a good hand that doesn't really want to go 5 way to the flop. The women is at the end of her playing money and isn't going to dump it here without a monster. I think the blinds will piss and moan, then fold. Your image might be slightly loose, but they are still going to think your 3bet range is pretty tight. You want to isolate against the whale every single time you can.

I like how OP played it.

There's no dead money in the pot -- except for the blinds.
If the Villain has A2o you're making a -EV call; fold pre.

I guess the button called because he's labeled the Villain so now you're playing a bloated pot oop.

I just love putting my money in the middle vs terrible villains but this is a valid point.

No, button didn't call.

That was just habit of typing opponents as villains.