Hi all,

Would like to hear some advice on the best way to play this hand on every street.

Hero SB: has quickly won $150, folds a lot preflop, has raised a few hands and taken it down on the flop. I've played some hands strangely and shown so could be seen as someone who is a semi fish.

Villain ($110) I cover so this is the effective stack. BB. plays very few hands preflop and usually folds to any flop betting action. Haven't seen villain do anything in the past 40 minutes.

Hand: UTG + 2 raises to $5. Three callers and I call with A2 suited from SB. Maybe a bit loose but anyway. BB (Villain) calls.

Flop ($30): 2 2 J. I check, villain bets $10 and it folds around to me. Thoughts on what I should do? It's a dry board and villain may be betting with top pair or with a 2 but I feel that I'm ahead and don't want to fold him out.

I call and the turn ($50) is a 9. I check and villain bets $20... Villain has $75 behind. Hero???? I'm still unsure if villain has a pair or a deuce or even a pocket pair. Villain has barely played any hands all night but I have the A kicker. I think villain will stack off with 2x and potentially call a small bet with top pair.... What would you do and why?

I'll post results after a few replies... Thanks for the help!

Pre is prob fine, assuming some others have bigger stacks than the main V.

Flop is a call (esp if there's a FD out). Let him put you on a random J and keep betting. Even though his bet is silly small, getting these small stacks in should be easy.

Turn is another call, imo. We are too likely to get a fold on this dry board from a nitty V if we raise. Not happy that his bets are so small, though.

Def donk shoving river if we call, which may not be that different from just raising here, but the chances of him checking a J behind, or maybe even some 2s are too high, given the passivity he's shown thus far. Note, this line is most likely to get a call if a FD was out OTF and didn't come in, as it may look like a bricked draw bluff.

When a guy who "plays very few hands preflop" raises, you should fold A2s from the SB. AQ/AK are likely a large part of his pfr range. You're not going to flop a monster hand often enough and your position sucks.

I don't see why you're putting 2s in villains range. Guys that are very tight pre-flop don't have any deuces in their range from UTG + 2. If you want to be mubsy about a hand, it should be JJ.

As played, c/c flop is fine. Either V has a hand that he's willing to go with or he doesn't. If he's got a J or a big pair, getting him to put his $110 stack into the pot shouldn't be a problem. There's several ways to do that.

I'd probably c/c the flop. C/min-raise the turn and then put it in on the river. If he's got AK, he's not stacking off. If he's got a big pair or top pair, he's not folding.

Sorry... Originally raiser was a loose player that folded on the flop and $5 was small so he got a lot of callers. Villain in this case is BB and had only $3 more to call into a decent pot. Does this change anything?

There was no flush draw available until the turn

jess, I think you are confused who V is. V is BB and called a chain of callers PF. The raise came from UTG+2.

Thanks for the responses so far... Turn brought a 5.... Do we check or donk bet? Also, still curious to hear thoughts on flop and turn from others

As played, maybe check shove turn. Go for max value here. Vs small bets might be blockers, might be trying to induce action from you. You're stacking off to jj regardless. I'd gii here. Does he maybe call a small raise OTT and pay you on the river? Maybe. Check shove turn looks so bluffy that he might call any jack. He bet turn -- hope he has j9 and snap calls your raise.
Input on all streets: suited ace, small blind, someone raise to five: probably should fold but I call, hope to flop a deceptive monster. This is one of those spots where someone might think, it was raised pf, he can't have a 2, so you're that much more likely to get paid. In general, small suited ace from the small blind should be folded to a raise but this isn't even really a raise.
On the flop, I like check call.