I have no history with villain. He's 26/14/6.5. Very high flop aggression.

I have been playing pretty tight. With no history/reads, I'm usually folding here...am I getting pushed off the best hand a lot? I just don't know what he's check raising here that I beat...

Poker Stars $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 5 players
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Hero (CO): $25.80
BTN: $30.00
SB: $24.20
BB: $25.00
UTG: $32.50

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is CO with K Q
1 fold, Hero raises to $0.75, 1 fold, SB calls $0.65, 1 fold

Flop: ($1.75) 2 8 Q (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $1.50, SB raises to $3.50, Hero calls $2

Turn: ($8.75) 7 (2 players)
SB bets $5.75, Hero ?????

Looks like this thread ( http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/69...uation-565339/ ) is very similar to mine...I guess I'll just read some of those replies. But if anyone has something to add please do.

I struggle with these spots a lot. I alwyas just call down (call river depending on how much they bet), and Im not sure if Im showing a profit or not. I call here and probably call most river bets, hoping that he has Q with worse kicker.

It is fine to fold here with no history/read. But make a note. He was just repping sets, if he keeps doing that you know what to do.

How many hands? If a big enough sample what's his checkraise flop %?

Optimistic whats your standard line vs a 20/18/2.5 type over 50 hands.
If ya dont mind me asking.

Without a solid read which indicates I should be doing otherwise, I'm happy just folding in these spots. If he's super aggressive on flop then I guess he can be doing this with QJ or something but not often enough IMO.

Agree with all of your reasoning; this flop is so bone dry that you are essentially in a WA/WB situation when he raises the flop here. In a classic WA/WB situation, like most I default to trying to keep the pot small. so, when he keeps firing, I think you have to fold -- this time. But as other suggested, make a note of it...if he keeps doing this with frequency, then it is time to put him to a decision.

against this guy i just call down because i don't think he would c/r a set on this dry flop. And i don't think he'll c/r AQ here

I call turn bc it is super brick. I fold flop against almost any villain, but not this one. My main issue is sample size on stats. If I have supporting stats and a read. I will call/call or just ship the turn. I ship turn bc you will see some rly weird spazz calls.

With your read that he has high flop and aggression, and no need to protect your hand if it is indeed good, I think calling down is fine. A c/r by villain in this spot will take down the hand a ton of the time against a meh reg at 25NL because a meh reg will c-bet this board with his whole range, but will rarely (if ever) continue without Qx+ to a c/r. So c/r bluffing this is actually pretty profitable against a weakish reg.

He's also polarizing his range a ton to like 88/22/air with the c/r, and the standard line with the sets is not to c/r a dry flop as you rate to blow villain off the hand

This is the type of situation I hate. For a tag, his hands to checkraise are really polarised and our hand is just a bluffcatcher, even on the flop.

Does a villain bluff checkraise this flop > 20% of the time? Even then we need to assume villain will give up his bluffs when called and if he doesn't then if he bets this amount on a brick turn we need to be good > 28% of the time instead.

Part of me just feels like folding the flop until I get more postflop reads but as 2.5 isn't crazy aggro if he is bluffing he may give up and check the turn so a call may be fine.

In the OP 6.5AF is really high so I like a call down if its over a big sample. But we really have to be willing to call all 3 streets as he seems like a maniac. I'd also like to know his 3bet% as I guess he 3bets AQ some of the time.