1-3 $500 buy-in, V is new to game wearing a turban on a holiday weekend. I have never played with him before. H is UTG+1, V UTG+2.

Hero: $465, KsQs, V -$270,

H raises to $12, V calls, everyone else folds
($28) Flop: KcQc8s

Hero bets $25, V raises to $50.

Action?

Rip it in for $258. I don't tolerate that sh*t when people min-raise the flop in position just so they can check back the turn and draw out cheaply.

i'd make it like $175-$185 and shove all turns, the word "all-in" psychologically scares people and by making it a committing bet albeit not quite all-in, we should yield more EV

Gii on flop.

As played, I shoved the flop, thinking there are multi-combo draws and I am only beaten by KdKh, QdQh, and three combos of 88. As poker would have it, V had QdQh, so on to next hand.

However, does the combination of:
-man in turban I have never seen before
-major holiday weekend
-lowest level game in the house (1-3)
-the fact that many 1-3 players play almost face-up, ie, they wouldn't raise without a set or at least top two-
-mini-raise on flop (although as one poster mentioned, this is a cheap way to get a free turn by drawing hand)
make you think that it may be better to call the flop and see the turn?

We play in different games if a small EP raise gets this HU. I just open limp this (it's now the very bottom of my playable range in EP).

SPR is 9 and we've flopped top two on a drawy board. Thanks to preflop (for better or worse), we're committed so long as a terrible card doesn't run off, so I plan on PSB/PSB/shove for stacks. So I'm cool with our flop bet (although I do $30).

Facing the raise, I probably just ship it now on this board and OOP. More reason to flat/slowplay in position on less drawy boards, but here, meh, let's do this. I'm never happily getting it in facing a flop raise, but preflop has left us no choice, imo.

FWIW, KK/QQ are easily in play in most games I play in (even KK flats here a lot UTG+2 facing a UTG+1 raise for fear of blowing everyone out of the water). Which again makes raising KQs in EP a bit meh, imo (although you'll get a bunch of people here that disagree with that).

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