Villain is a really good, fun player, who seems to play super solid and makes moves at just the right time. I've seen him every time I've been there lately so I assume he's testing the pro poker player waters. 20 something white guy.

He's willing to gamble and he's willing to fight for pots

we've been at the tables for a few hours and it's mostly been a slow steady low variance chip up for both of us as we are the most aggressive at the table and seem much better at navigating flops than everyone else.

that being said we haven't clashed that much yet. I've got a lot of $1 chips. I'm raking lots of pots because people are getting low and not really fighting back anymore. It's late and this is the last table running so the game will close soon. villain has seen me 3 and cold 4 bet a lot and open frequently, cbet often, but i'm almost always a caller on my straddle and have thus far played it mostly with a call and check/fold or check/call...i'm defending at least half of my straddles here, so he should see my range as wide pre

Hero is the straddle, effective stacks 2800, 8 handed

Villain raises to 30 from UT+1, folds around, hero calls with 77

(60)

345

check, v bets 40, hero raises to 120, v calls

(380)

3

Hero bets 195, v calls

(770)

6

? Bet something not too much.

Not much? H went 1/2 pot on turn. Less than that on R? Or something like 450-500? Are we trying to induce a raise?

Call or raise from fun player idc not checking

I like 150. Can get called by trips and two pairs and might induce a bluff at some frequency. Betting large kinda sucks since it will allow v to play perfect most of the time and we're in a **** spot when raised and mostly just have to fold

$420 and wink at the dealer.

same bet, 195

I would bet small enough that you can call a raise. You’re actual hand is way stronger than your range (mostly OP’s). If V knows this he may raise light and you can snap. Of course V also has more boats than H so we’re not trying to play for stacks here.

Or what drowski said.

V RFI from UT+1. How much of that range has a 3 in it? I.e. if he raises, great, we're calling.

He's a "really good player". If he's doing this with 43, 44-55, I'm paying him off.

I don't see a large difference in his raise frequency over a 4-500 bet vs 150. (And I'm calling anyway.) I do see V calling a half/2/3 ish pot bet at around the same frequency as a 1/5 pot bet. Which is a problem for H.

I'm confused. (Not unusual, reading this forum.) Don't we have way more boats on 345r 36 than V?

Any good player will raise large bets significantly less often as a bluff. His raising range will be much more skewed toward value. Like by a ton.

It would be a huge leak to be calling raises after we bet large here. And the inverse of betting small and calling would still be plus ev imo