H thirty year old white male

V youngish Eastern European/Central Asian player. He frequents my room a lot, seems to be there a lot recently, only plays 1/2. Plays a lot of hands, raises with good hands, can sometimes play draws especially draws + pair aggressively. Usually stays out of my way and will give me respect when I open or c-bet. I usually have position he is two to my right.

Table Dynamics - Been about 1.5 hours of play. H was down a little after missing his opens, won a big pot recently and have about 600 in front. V has about 650 after beating other players in limped pots and getting value.

OTTH -

V has button straddle on, one of the blinds limps, I open to 15 with AKcc in UTG, one caller in MP, V reraises to 35 in the button, blind folds, gets back to me and I really considered 4b but didnt want to play AK OPP with someone who doesnt really play back at me; would a sizing of like 115 been good if I had 4bet? If I had only 100bb would you be more inclined to call or 4bet and if so what sizing?


Im the only one that calls

Flop (90ish)
Qc9d5h

I check v bets out 25, I figure this is a decent price to continue with BDFD and BDSD correct?


Turn (140ish)

Qc9d5h3d

X,X

River (140ish)

Qc9d5h3d9h

I x again, and V bets out 60 and I make a trivial fold. Thoughts on all streets are welcomed

I prefer 4betting pre rather than flatting OOP by far. and yeah 115 would be ok, I would probably bet 95, he min-raised over two players so he might even be trying to induce a 4bet with that sizing so I would snap fold to a 5bet, especially since he thinks your tight/ABC.

I don't see any reason to hero call the river either if he usually gives you too much respect.

What is the straddle on to? You say you are 200 bb deep but have 600 in front. Surely the straddle is not on to 3?

Hard to tell what straddle is, bit your ISO raise may be too small.

V's raise size is BS with a cold caller, I am always 4betting your hand and planning to call if villain jams. Against the tiny 3bet I would probably go about $150.

As played, flop and turn are okay.

As played I kind of like the idea of check raising to $300. He gives you a ton of credit, right? Do you think his river bet represents very strong value that doesn't think you will call a bigger bet? Or some very thin value/a bluff? It seems more like the latter. Seems like this player might fold a queen and potentially overpairs here, but also JJ, TT, AK.

Really tough to follow along with this hand w/o knowing stakes and straddle amount.

With the amount of dead money in the pot imo this is a pretty trivial 4bet/gii spot pre, but imo the raise should be scaled down a bit, like $90-$100 or so to try to keep dominated aces and kings around a bit longer. Flop I think you can often raise, though anything other than fold is prob fine. Turn is fine. River I think you can make a case for all 3 options but I think blocking Ac9c and Kc9c is a good enough reason to take an aggressive approach with this particular combo of AK. C/jam imo prints.

I think in general 200bbs deep you will have a larger 4 bet sizes and at 100bb you have smaller because you want to give villain a bad price on a 5 bet and you are limited by the smaller stack depth.

The deeper you get you have more room to make a normal sized raise so your 4bet will naturally be bigger.