Hi everyone,

I would appreciate some advice on the following hand. I'm playing 1/3 at MGMNH. I recognize 4-5 regulars who are action players as I sit down. I haven't played with the specific villain in this hand, though. He's an older, asian guy.

Effective stacks are $500. It's my second hand and the table informs me that everyone has been straddling, so I straddle for $6 UTG.

Pre-flop: MP opens to $25, Villain in LJ calls, CO calls, Button calls. Folds to Hero who raises to $150 with AsKc. Everyone folds but the villain. Pot is $375.

Flop: 2s 3c 5h. Hero bets $100. Villain Calls. Pot is $575.

Turn: 2d. Hero (?)

Looking for thoughts on what I should do on the turn and whether I should have checked this flop to begin with.

Thanks in advance for the input.

Not a fan of the cbet. You are not getting one hand to fold that Beats you and not much worse to call. AP just x/f even if it seems a little tight.

I'd consider x/c or x/jam on the flop. You put a lot of pressure on overpairs and you are never in terrible shape if called. Vs unknown just x/c.

You have a PSB on the flop and extra outs I would shove and make your opponent guess.

As played its a bit of an awkward spot. Yes the board gives us additional outs but your opponent is going to also put you on AK / AQ a substantial amount of time because your hand looks exactly like it is and now you only have a 40% pot bet left. I would x turn and hope V x back and a A K Q or 4 peels off the river and jam otherwise I think we just get called by 88 type hands way too often.

Against a good player splitting up a PSB over 2 streets looks strong but vs a bad player they are just going to call a lot more often cause they are only thinking 1 street at a time.

Echoing what others have said, going to the flop with $350 stack and $375 pot I'm not looking to back down on the more favorable flops. Shove, c/rai, c/c all seem better than betting small.

But maybe you have an idea of villains range:
Is your flop bet for value against worse Ax and random overcards? If so, follow thru and shove the turn. You have 10outs vs QQ-77 if called and it'll be hard to c/f.

I would also jam the flop if I was betting, c/f'ing is also fine too after an older unknown just called 150 pre in a 1/3 game. He might call an Ax hand for 25 but once he calls 150 we have to narrow him down alil to at least a med PP. Maybe we still have FE vs TT/JJ if he thinks we have aces or kings when we jam 350 into 375 otf.

Yeah, just ship it in on the flop looks best. You have about 38% equity against 77 to JJ, so it's already a break-even play even if you KNOW you're getting called, except he's going to fold the lower pairs some portion of the time (along with folding all his air-balls), so you're printing money. (To say nothing of the fact that he might on occasion call you with hands that YOU dominate, like AQ/AJ, if he puts you on JJ/TT.)

Your 3-bet is so big I think we can almost completely dismiss the possibility that you're ever in worse shape than that--he'd have to be playing SUPER loose to call that with A4/A5 or 66-22.

Rip pre
Rip flop

As played no clue, all options suck really. I guess jamming is the more balanced play since we are never checking our AA or KK.

Thanks for the responses. Here is the result:

Hero goes all-in on the turn for $250. Villain calls with TT and scoops.

On the flop, I was thinking that multiple streets of pressure would be be better without really thinking about the fact the my turn shove wouldn’t be much relative to the pot.

Anyways, thanks for the advice.

I suspect a flop shove was getting called anyway.

I'm jamming flop to rep an overpair against Vs 88-TT.