We are playing in Mexico/Playa del carmen. Blinds 20-50 (approx 1-2 dollars). Is the biggest game here as funny as it sounds

Hero (6500): Aggressive image. Shown 2 bluffs before, one of them against villain where I 3 barreled bluff with a missed straight draw and shoved river. In this game people are only 3 betting pre with premium hands (including me) even though my image post flop is pretty aggressive
Villain (11000): Aggressive player. Looks like he is a decent player but he is playing much lower than he is used to. His being a little on tilt lately and raising with very weak hands from almost any position. Have seen him fold river a lot when players show strength. Not a pro, but I see him as a capable player

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Villain raises MP to 200, random villain calls on HJ, I look at AhTh and raises to 650 on the button. Both villains call

Flop (2020):
QcTd6h

Both villains check and I c bet to 850. Main villain calls and the other guy folds

Turn (3720): Kd
Villain checks and hero bets 1550, villain thinks for a moment check raises all in. I instant fold and he shows me 8c8d

Im not posting this hand to tell you that villain made a crazy play realyzing I was betting light and decided to push me off the hand.

My question is: Should I have check turn or keep barrelling? That cards impacts a lot my range better than my opponent. Also should I balance my range ocassionally checking back flop with that dry flop?

If he’s going to blast off there w/ 88 I wouldn’t sweat the fold at all. You have tons of value hands there to call him with. No reason to hero him with 3rd pair.

I wasnt even considering hero calling the turn. Im curious if it would be better to check the turn or play the hand a little different

I barrel any A/T/ that doesn't pair the board and probably some bricks. Dunno the theory but I x this turn card as these broadway boards smash many villain ranges.

I’m not a fan of the way you played this post-flop at all. I’m honestly not even sure *why* you’re betting the Flop and Turn. Are you bluffing? If so, why would you think Small Bets would work on a board like this (Broadway, connected) when they both called your 3-bet preflop?

This is a perfect spot to check back the flop. You have second pair and a ton of backdoor draws (to pick up extra equity on the Turn). Just take the free card.

(I guess I’m fine betting this Flop at an extremely low frequency, but if you’re going to bet you need to bet BIG—this is not a board you should EVER be betting 40% pot on, when their continuing range absolutely smashes it like this.)

((I just noticed in your post that you called this flop “dry.” QT6 isn’t a dry flop, it’s a very very wet flop, ESPECIALLY when they’ve each called a 3-bet! Half the deck on the Turn completes a straight!))

bet small on flop.

check back turn.

preflop 3b is bad. id rather 3b A2-A5s.

if you have an aggressive image you should bluff less.

if you have a nitty image you should bluff more.

dont play face up.

The king hits villains range pretty good, so you’re basically going to have to be turning a hand that has decent equity on the turn into a big 3 barrel bluff to get any hands better than yours to fold. Very (needlessly) high variance line imo. Don’t like it. Take the free card on the turn. Re-evaluate river.

I kinda like the flop bet multiway, and check back the turn... If we are betting to get value from hands that call the flop, many of those are ahead of you now. KJ, QJ, J9, QT, KT. Really only JT is targeted.