1-2NLHE at my usual room. Have been playing less than an hour, and I just got moved to this table, haven't shown anything down yet or done anything noteworthy aside from raising 33 in MP to $15, getting 4 callers and check folding when I missed the flop. When the hand in question started, I had a reasonably tight image, having only played 1 hand in a couple round. I was sitting on $430.

Villain is a 40-something reg looking guy. I don't have any experience with him, but he seemed like the typical reg-fish who thinks he is god's gift to poker. I think he was from out of town, as he had a hat from a poker room in a different city, was asking if the food was any good etc. Also was wearing sunglasses. He was extremely loose passive pre flop, limp-calling at least 50% of the time. He would throw out "feeler" bets constantly OOP if no one showed any major aggression, and would typically fold if someone raised or looked like they wanted to fight for it. Long story short, type of guy who I believe felt he could outplay the table, and was seeing as many flops as possible to do it. He was sitting on $230 to start the hand.

Hero ($430) is dealt AK UTG and raises to $15.

Folded around to Villain ($230) in LP who very quickly tosses in 3 red chips.

Blinds fold, heads up to the flop.

FLOP ($33): 8 4 3

Hero c-bets $20. Villain calls.

Turn ($73): K

Hero bets $40. Villain raises to $100.

Hero?

Anyone check the turn here? As played can I possibly be good? Hands I'm beating are KQ, KJ, K10, K9 (if he was floating the flop, I think that is in this particular villains range to do so), pocket pairs 99/1010 (JJ-AA I think he would have re-raised pre or on the flop, but can't be sure), or 56 maybe. It's possible he is on air but pretty unlikely.

I'm behind sets and 43. Not too many other combos I think he shows up with here that beat me.

Pot is sitting at $213 and he has ~$95 left. All in or fold?

I play preflop and flop the same way.

Against villain's who like to "outplay" their opponents, I'd rather check the turn and let him bluff off some chips with a wide range.

With stack sizes the way they are, even against passive straightforward villains, I think I'd rather check the turn. If we bet the turn and are called, the pot will bet $150 and we've only got a PSB left, kinda a sucky position to be in on the river OOP, IMO.

As played, this should be the worst card for the villain to see and yet he raises us anyways, so I fold. I mean, sure, he could be putting us on QQ/JJ/etc. and bluffing, but are we gonna risk 100+ BB to find out?

Playing this hand OOP is hard (in position I'd check behind this turn like almost always). But I think, in general, it's usually a mistake to voluntarily bet the first two streets on a fairly drawless board with only a TP hand unless against a real drooler payoff monkey. I'm not sure if everyone agrees with that though.

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