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Villain is running at 35/16 over a decent sample. I expect his cold calling range to be what you would expect: lower PP, middly-connected hands, broadway hands, some suited aces, etc. My notes are that he is induce-able and has made some bad barrels in the past, as well as, slow plays TP+ on the flop multi-way.

What is your plan for the turn and river?

Poker Stars $2/$4 Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 1817048
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Pre Flop: (1.5 SB) Hero is UTG with A Q
Hero raises, MP calls, 3 folds, BB calls

Flop: (6.5 SB) J Q 5 (3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets, MP calls, BB folds

Turn: (4.25 BB) K (2 players)
Hero

Bet the turn. If raised, call down. There are plenty of drawing hands that might semibluff on this turn card. There are plenty of hands we can get value out of by betting.

On the whole I'd be betting again on the river if called on the turn.

I think I like x/c down.

If he's induceable, then he's probably not going to put you on a hand as strong as AQ here. If this board was 982, and you had A9, you would normally bet a K turn right?

If he will bet Tx (QT/JT or TT), or pairs + flush draws, then I think I like xc. I think those as well as the hands that crush you are what's continuing--just those stronger hands raise and make you call down. I don't know if he's going to semibluff you on this turn with worse hands expecting many folds.

[At least I wouldn't get spewy on this turn card expecting a taggy opponent to fold much, but I might just be projecting my own thoughts...]

I can't think of that many more worse hands that will call a turn bet, so they're probably all folding (all the small pocket pairs, small suited connectors, etc.).

Besides, the pot isn't that big?

I get stuck in these situations,
I cant decide weather to bet and call a raise or to check and call down.

If I bet and called a raise I would think I was beaten but would feel icky folding any river

I prefer the check calldown line.

I don't like check/calldown - there are too many hands that won't bet the turn that will call, and you prevent him from making bad bluff raises and thin value raises (QTx, JTx) which you'll see often enough to justify a bet-calldown line.

Rob