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This is at the anon tables at ladbrokes. Villan is a reg, he was playing very nitty at first and i was running him over but now he's starting to be more aggresive in weird spots... What do you make of his c/r?? it's a weird board to do it and his sizing sucks. (his 3bet % was around 20%)

Prima Network $600.00 No Limit Hold'em - 2 players - View hand 1612390
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BB: $1357.91
Hero (BTN/SB): $1434.00

Pre Flop: ($9.00) Hero is BTN/SB with 5 Q
Hero raises to $18, BB raises to $60, Hero calls $42

Flop: ($120.00) 4 8 K (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $84.00, BB raises to $294

Final Pot: $288.00

I think at best youre drawing to bare flush

I'd rather 4bet this hand preflop, being this deep.

I'd rather 4bet this hand preflop, being this deep.

yeah, it's probably better than calling. What do you think about postflop?

yeah, it's probably better than calling. What do you think about postflop?

I think his sizing indicates a valuehand the majority of the time. If he wants to have a reasonable bluffing range, he can make it $192 and accomplish the same thing.

Given we're deep and not drawing to the nuts, I want to have some hands like this in my checking back range. When the flush does come in, it's really discounted from your perceived range and you can still rep a marginal chunk of your range that's pot-controlling. If your opponent isn't super high intensity, I'd expect to get a lot of credit for pot-controlling Kx, 8x-QQ and I would expect to have a decent amount of fold equity on later streets over the lower end of his made hand range that checked the flop.

Having gotten to this spot the way we played it, I don't think we can get a lot of worse hands to jam by 3bet/calling the flop or by jamming over a turnbet, so I'd fold flop and check back next time unless I have a better idea what his checkraising range is.