How do you play this?

What is your play on the turn and river here? This player is sort of a fish who overvalues and overplays hands.

PokerStars Game #2791372570: Hold'em No Limit ($2/$4) - 2005/10/13 - 00:19:40 (ET)
Table 'Lumen II' Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: LarryDavid33 ($229.70 in chips)
Seat 2: dsaxton ($380 in chips)
Seat 3: J.Tightlips ($400 in chips)
Seat 4: Who's J Galt ($483.25 in chips)
Seat 6: whitespade5 ($96.95 in chips)
Seat 7: HammerG ($561.80 in chips)
Seat 8: aragon ($433 in chips)
Seat 9: Magglio12 ($275.45 in chips)
whitespade5: posts small blind $2
HammerG: posts big blind $4
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to dsaxton [5c 7c]
aragon: folds
Magglio12: folds
LarryDavid33: folds
dsaxton: raises $12 to $16
J.Tightlips: folds
Who's J Galt: calls $16
whitespade5: folds
HammerG: folds
*** FLOP *** [Kh 3s 7d]
dsaxton: bets $20
Who's J Galt: calls $20
*** TURN *** [Kh 3s 7d] [7h]
dsaxton: bets $28
Who's J Galt: raises $60 to $88
dsaxton: ???

If you said yourself that he overvalues hands, then he's probably got AK or K with a good kicker, thinking he's tired of your LAG ass pushing him around.

Kind of a fun choice of whether to raise or call here.

I like the line of raising here, since he obviously likes his hand: not too big of a raise; a minimum one will do. Then bet about 4/5's the pot on the river.

I decided to only call, then check-call the river, which probably wasn't' the best play. I wanted to limit my losses if he had 3-3 or a 7 with a better kicker (he was entirely capable of calling my flop bet with a hand like A-7), and encourage him to overvalue his hand if he only had top pair or something like that.

Maybe I should've chosen a different line since I knew this guy overvalued hands a lot. Against a better player the line I chose may be best, I think.

Thoughts?

What did he have btw? Pair of kings?

Originally Posted by bencathers

What did he have btw? Pair of kings?

Just A-K. I checked to him on the river and he bet $100, and I just called, for the reasons I mentioned. Do you think raising is called for? My read on this player wasn't too specific, and most players wouldn't call a river check-raise with just top pair.

Maybe I should've just lead into him on the river for about $150 or so.

I would of called then check raised, he could have a boat but hes playing it more like kx.

It's very read specific. Against most players, I think the check/call is the absolute right play, but with everything you mentioned with him, I think a check-raise is killer because there is no way at all he will put you on the 7... and if he's betting 100 bucks with TPTK, a check-raise nicely pot commits him when he's really confident about being ahead.

But most players its a check/call... but if you have that type of read, a check-raise = $$$