5-10-20 plo. Eff stacks are around 5k. Villain is sticky pre and post with a vpip north of 50. He doesn’t bluff a lot and will often just call flop with nutty hands. That said he’s calling pretty wide especially in small pots. He won’t draw on paired boards.

Hero on btn with AAQT4 with AT4ccc

Pre: hero open 75, just V in sb calls

Flop (180) : Qc4x3c
So top 2 nfd
V checks, hero 125, V calls

Turn (430) : 3x
V checks

Maybe 1/2 pot. He’s probably folding but that’s fine.

Most of the time you should bet even at this SPR with some calls of his CR because he’s likely bluffing when he does that, repping 3x that knows it’s good and will get called is slim percentage of most players ranges, and you need to protect your bet flop bet turn lines versus thinking players

-Many 3x will just call you when you bet turn is more argument for betting

-You can also check and catch bluffs on river or check then bet river for value but can’t do that 100 percent of the time and should understand how player responds to such lines

You can also bet and fold versus certain face up players correctly or bet and fold versus certain semi bluff ranges and accept getting bluffed at a certain clip

Interesting spot that appears to be a bet.
The true question is how much? I like the idea of half pot. V can perceive this as good pot odds with worst clubs and straight draws and be enticed to call.
If v x/r pot we have a 600 call on an 1800 pot (3/1)
It seems hard to pot a non boated 3. There is many hands combos where players might feel enticed to c/r as a bluff, primarily flush and straight draws.
Lot more to unwrap in this hand, for now that's my 2c

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I like half pot as well, though I am not really a fan of the flop sizing.

Would you say potting flop is better? I would also think this is the best size.

bet 100 on the turn.

Optimal sizing on this flop is a very complicated question, especially if we consider that btn range should be much wider than sb.

On this texture I would generally expect large sizings to be more polar.

Hero has flopped a very strong hand and does not need much protection. Against proper disciplined sb ranges hero does not have much of a range advantage, especially in terms of broadway cards.

Even though 43 presents straight draws, neither opponents should connect strongly with it most of the time - this can be viewed a somewhat dry board.

For that reason Hero can both checkback at high frequency, or choose between various smaller sizings. We often want to reserve large bets for hands that benefit more from fold equity.

This hand in particular is a great hand to checkback and protect our range.

Against an overly loose opponent, we don't need to think about balance and want him to keep continuing with an improper range - the best way to do that is by not betting too large.

I would have practically no bet sizings between 50-75% of pot because i feel like it is not extracting the right amount of value from weak-medium hands that continue for a smaller sizing and stronger hands that would call more.

In this spot, vs this opponent, I would be very happy to continue with a 40%-50% psb, a normal sized cbet that doesn't indicate much about Hero's overall hand strength.

i think flop is fine and i actually think there's merit to checking back this turn since you dominate his most obvious draws and might be able to get value from worse on the river. if they get there. you don't have to worry about a bare Q making two pair, you need very little protection when you're ahead and it's hard to get value from worse.

i mean maybe you can force him off a naked 3 here by betting three streets but there aren't many combos of that and i'm not in the business of trying to push sticky players off their random trips. 43 is also just calling you down a lot of the time and you're owning yourself.

i understand the comments about flop sizing from monikrazy but i just don't think this type of player is too attentive to 40% vs 60% of pot in a single-raised, heads up hand. most live players think big pot / small pot. this is still a small pot, he's sticky, we have a very strong hand that wants to punish worse draws. if he's calling 80 he's calling 120.