2/5 $900 effective.

V is a passive rec. He has trapped some big pairs pre and has trapped a couple of big hands on the flop and turn. Hero has been pretty active pre but bricking multi-way so has been passive post. We have been playing together for about 4 hours, he’s on a heater, I’m stuck $400. I did bet turn multi-way and heads up on the river against him in a limped pot on 223-T-K and he folded a T.

OTTH:

Loose/bad rec limps, I $25 Bu 9Tss. Blinds call and limper calls.

Pot:$100.

Qs8s3d.
Pot: $100

X, donk $70, fold, H?

So we have 47% equity vs a range of AQ/KQ and 45% vs AQ/KQ/88/33. We don’t need to be getting many folds for raise to be good, but if he has enough sets, we just end up getting it in as a 2:1 dog too often for raise to be best. It mostly comes down to how often this is one pair and how many folds we can get against it. In my experience these leads are Qx heavy but not exactly sure how often raise is going to get folds.

I’m pretty confident he doesn’t have a draw here, if he does it’s like A3ss but I doubt it.

$220

We have ten high at the moment, but loads of equity with our combodraw. A raise make lots of sense here for many reasons.

Its hard to flop sets, so there are not many combos of those villain can have. He is far more Q heavy than sets in my opinion, and we would love to put max pressure on a one pair heavy range here.

I am not raising 9-10 suited pre over a limper to slow down when we get a pretty much nutted flop for our hand.

Depends how risk averse you are.

if I feel V is a good player, I would raise this flop, bomb the turn and then possibly either check back river or go for shove. You can represent an overpair here easy.

If you are a bit more risk averse, then check call or even fold it right now.

Most times V will fold, sometimes he will have a set and stack you. Overall aggresive play will be ev+ but it will be high varience. You could just decide there are weaker players at the table and wait for better opportunity. If you decide not to raise, then don't open suited connectors and simply limp behind in late position. Nothing wrong with that, in my game I have little fold equity so I don't raise speculative hands like this.

probably peeling flop, raising obv fine but i think you'd do better looking closely at his turn sizing and then making decisions from there. Getting 3bet all in otf is a bit of a disaster from either v or sb/bb. Plenty of turns to help our hand (6/7/j/9/t) and some good bluffing opportunitys on a/k turns. one thing in favour of raising is this line is often top pair and it is especially if you've seen him trap sets/two pair.

Pretty much this.

I do think we get some folds right here for 220-240. And raising will likely allow us to control the betting ott.

If he's trapping with strong hands by checking, that means his donk is weak and capped. I'd raise flop 250 and shove a lot of turns with a psb behind. Qx will likely fold to pressure based on the hh

Glad we are all, or at least mostly, in agreement then.

Results: hero raises to $250, V calls. Turn Qx. Xx. River complete brick. Xx. V scoops with AA.