I agree with you to some extent. Its like the way one of my best poker buddies used to play hands on UB. He would bet pot all the way with sets. He would also bet pot all the way with his bluffs. When asked to explain why he did this, he had a great response:

"Well, when I have a set I figure they will call me down because they will think I'm bluffing since I'm betting so much. When I'm bluffing I bet big so they'll think I have a monster and get away from their hand."

He was a winning player. Why? Because he read board texture and had a good sense of his opponents likely hand range. Also, he played tight and in position. This was years ago.

Its all about hand reading. My advice is geared to combat a solid tag with excellent hand reading skills.

I think typically Hero will be afraid with his sets on most boards and raise the flop, thus only getting the cbet out of villain. With a marginal hand that is best Hero will either fold to the cbet- or check call, and often lose the pot by folding the turn to a bluff. Or sometimes Hero will call the turn, maybe have the best hand, and then have a hard river decision, or face no bet if ahead.

So the river bluffing frequency of villain is a huge part of all of this. But a solid tag will be betting the river with bluffs a fairly optimally % of the time, putting hero in an awful spot. This is game theory.

There is no way to win against a good player passively oop unless you have the nuts (even if you know the bluffing frequency! this is covered in recent 2p2 books).

Also, I guess if Hero can soul read over the internet he could win.

Yep.

Maybe vs a donk. Not vs a solid reg.

lol man. Flatting KJo in BB here oop is just terrible vs UTG. fold pf.

Okay, I'm trying to understand your points. Does this mean you never flat-call an utg raise with the blinds? And if you're concerned with balancing, isn't it bad that villain can take sets out of your range? I think as well this might not apply to many real-life opponents, since people often get married to overpairs and/or barrel too much into strong ranges.

wtf r u saying. This is so garbage. Some of the players here take what you say for granted.. thats obv not helping their winrates

i'm obv still on level 1 because i can't quite comprehend the genius in this...

^ lol +1

If you flat this deep you will have a stack to pot ratio of over 30.

By raising with a hand that is dominated by most of his calling range if he calls you have managed to get to SPR of 8. If he was a total drooler who raised UTG 50%, never folded to a 3bet and called down with underpairs etc on three streets post then this would be just about OK.

You give no reads on UTG.
Standard UTG open is around 13-16% range. Maybe you are dominating QJs and JTs in that range but that's about it.

He has AA,KK, QQ, JJ, AK,KQ,AJ all in that range which dominate you and almost all the rest of his range is ahead. You would only be happy if you flopped broadway or 2 pair.

Fold>Call>Raise.

Now I absolutely disagree with those who would fold small and medium pairs here. At a cost of $2 to see a flop and $207 left in his stack (SPR>30) I will call all day with pairs and SC's even OOP.
vs a decent TAG with effective stacks of 100BB's this would be marginal at best (although the 1/3 discount off the price does make it tempting - it's a trivial fold if he is decent and opens to 4-5BB's) but 200+BB's deep my only concern in playing small pairs is set over set.

But make no mistake - we are hitting the flop hard with such hands or getting the hell out for $2.