No reads on villain at all, only thing I could say from the <20 hands I've seen him play is that he's not a maniac.

Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $0.25(BB) Replayer
SB ($19.75)
Hero ($38)
UTG ($11)
CO ($25.57)
BTN ($18.98)

Dealt to Hero A K

fold, fold, fold, SB raises to $0.75, Hero raises to $2.50, SB calls $1.75

FLOP ($5) 8 7 K

SB checks, Hero bets $3, SB raises to $7.25, Hero calls $4.25

TURN ($19.50) 8 7 K 8

SB bets $5.50 Hero ???

TPTK vs a 79bb stack who's cold called a 3b oop.

Perfect spot to stack off?

I'm only losing to 78, 77, K8 and a slow played AA. I'm pretty much removing 88 as its hard to make quads and I don't expect him to be raising 8x on the flop.

That said, he has to have a worse K, or be semi bluffing a straight draw for me to be ahead here and I don't expect an unknown to be raising those either.

Baluga Whale once said, any time you're raised postflop by a passive opponent, fold anything that's not 2 pair or better.

Is this one of those times?

baluga does not apply in 3bet pots and yeah call or raise, just dont fold

You don't know if he is passive yet. And it only applies in single raised patz

78 most likely isn't in his range (nobody flats a 3bet OOP with that unless they're really horrible)

I can see him playing KJ/KQ this way though, barely any hands beats you so I'm probably getting it in on the flop. Calling IP could be a option but don't think it's so solid as there would be nearly a 1/2 PSB left (even though flatting KJ/KQ OOP is horrible as well, but it's probably frequent with ****ty 25NL regs lol).

Alrighty.
1. He didn't cold call you preflop. A cold call is when you call a 3bet after previously having had no money in the pot. For example, UTG opens, MP 3bets, and you cold call from the btn.
2. The baluga theorem states that c/c on the flop and c/r on the turn is a very strong line.
In this case, villain c/r flop. It's still a little iffy because this flop is so dry, what is he trying to represent? A set? 2p? I think it's most likely that he also hit a K and decided to raise you, which is spewey.

Point is, I would shove turn expecting to get called by any K.

Fair point

Yeah, I wasn't referring to his theorem. Just in a video he once said that any time a passive opponent raises, fold 1 pair.

I shoved turn and got shown K8s.

I've seen this quite a lot recently, I'm starting to think that folding 1 pair any time a drooler min raises the flop might not be such a bad strategy.

TPTK in 3b pot vs supposed fish who's not playing full stacked isn't an happy shove OTF?

If he's calling 3 streets we're ecstatic.

If he's min raising the flop and betting 25% pot on the turn it's a bit of a different situation.

I'm not saying it's a snap fold or anything, just that we should be paying attention to more than just our own cards.

I think maybe I could have gotten away here? We're repping a monster by 3 betting pre with no history and he still wants to get all the money in.