The game is £1/£1 and I imagine plays almost identically to your average $1/$2 game, only this is the highest limit the room offers so there will be a greater than average proportion of good players given they have no option to move up to higher stakes here.

Effective stacks for this hand are £225. V1 is a MAWG and very tight, passive player pre and post flop. I've seen him raise KK earlier in the night so I'm not concerned about a l/rr here. V2 is the best reg in the room, he likes to open wider in position and apply lots of pressure post flop. V2 has previously played full time and knows hero respects his game. Hero and V2 are relatively friendly and both 20 something white guys.

OTTH:

Preflop: V1 limps UTG. It folds round to the CO where V2 makes it £6. His default sizing is £5+1 per limper. Hero flats BB with A3 . UTG calls. Pot = £19

Flop: 544

Hero checks, V1 checks, V2 bets 13.

With nfd and a gutshot to a quite disguised wheel I think this is a relatively easy call as it keeps villains range wide. A fold seems way too tight and a raise bloats the pot oop too much for my liking.

Hero calls. V1 folds. Pot = £45

Turn: 2

Bingo. Of the two draws I have available this is obviously much better and much more disguised. Hero ?

I've started the PAHWM on the turn rather than pre flop because the action up to this point seems fairly standard although any comments on pre flop or the flop are more than welcome too. TYVM

If you think V2 will bet again then check/raise, if you think he will slow down then lead for £30 yourself. It will be hard to stack villain no matter what and you don't want this turn to check around.

I think betting out otf is quite nice because of the excact scenario we are in now. We can then lead ott either for value or as a second barrel with decent equity.

Still clear bet ott, only thing he will surely bet is a 4, 54, jj+. All these hands also call our bet, and if he has a boat it's bad luck. By betting, we can also get money from flush draws with 2 overcards and possibly medium overpairs.

I wouldn't bet more than half pot. Villian can still stay in with draws, and we're not afraid of the third diamond anyway. That way we might be able to bet 1/3 pot otr and still get called if we're lucky. Probably never stacking him off though except k high flush or maybe a 4.

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I think you can check/raise the flop as a semi-bluff. You have a lot of outs -- any (nine cards), any 2 (three cards), and any ace (three cards) -- and there are a lot of scare cards that you can bluff on the turn. It's hard for him to have better than an overpair here, but you can have 55, 54, and A4s.

If you check/call on the flop, then you're playing just to hit your draw. Only three cards (offsuit twos) will disguise your hand when you hit. But nine of your outs (the diamonds) will be fairly obvious to a good player. So you're unlikely to get paid when you hit -- particularly because he may very well be betting this flop with air.

That said, I don't hate your call. One big advantage of calling is that it allows you to keep V1 in the hand when he has a dominated flush draw. Facing a bet and a raise, he might very well fold a hand like 89, and that's a disaster when you hold the nut flush draw.

As played, on the turn I like a check/raise. Villain is aggressive, so he's likely to both bet his overpairs here and continue with his bluffs. Since bluffs still make up a big part of his range, leading lets him get away cheap when he might instead double barrel with air. If it checks through, that's fine too. You're not worried about getting drawn out on, and he might hit one of his overcards on the river. Plus, you'll look like you're on a missed draw when you make a pot-sized bet on a blank river.