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Interesting hand. Villain (BTN) is 88/50 w/ a 25% 3-bet over a tiny sample <20 hands.
I have two questions - firstly, I'm not entirely sure of this being a great spot for a c-bet. I stand a chance to gain a great deal of equity on the turn which would make my play from that point on more straightforward, and it is probably better not to build a huge pot with non-nutty hand potential. One of the upsides to c-betting is that this opponent is very likely to continue, even with marginal holdings, and I could possibly get value from a currently 'worse' hand, though I will often not know when he actually improves to a better hand on future streets.
So, to c-bet or not to c-bet? and secondly, once we do c-bet and get raised, what's our play here?
I believe we can discount AAxx since he did not 3-bet pre which would seem to be a bit of a no-brainer given his stats and position (though, sample size does leave something to be desired).
So after his flop raise, the top of his range may look like sets, QQxx, 88xx and 33xx, possibly with flush draws. More often he will just have a pair + FD or just a FD, sometimes an inside wrap, two pair, or weakish holdings like Qxxx with an inside straight draw. An arbitrarily small percentage of the time he will have just a pair and mostly be on a bluff (which ironically still has okay equity v. my hand).
Given the tiny sample size and little knowledge of our opponent it becomes rather difficult to narrow down the probabilities of each holding listed above, and thus hard to estimate our equity here...
$0.05/$0.10 Pot Limit Omaha Hi
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6 Players
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Stacks:
UTG ($3.85)
Hero (UTG+1) ($10)
CO ($17.85)
BTN ($16.16)
SB ($5.22)
BB ($10)
Pre-Flop: ($0.15, 6 players) Hero is UTG+1 
1 fold, Hero raises to $0.35, 1 fold, BTN calls $0.35, 2 folds
Flop: ($0.85, 2 players)
Hero bets $0.60, BTN raises to $1.80, $1.2 to Hero ($9.05)?
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