How many levels up are we?

Villain has good stats at 26/21/3.3 and seems solid/good but we haven't played enough hands for me to have a good read on him. I'm not really sure what level he's on here and what level he expects me to be on which is what is making this difficult I guess.

He should view me as something like 'solid TAG who is taking a shot'. I reraised him twice so far in the short time I've been playing at this table. He folded the first time. His fold to 3bet stat is 57%.

$5/$10 No Limit Holdem
5 players
Converted at weaktight.com

Stacks:
UTG ($1120.25)
CO ($1130.29)
BTN ($1778.42)
SB ($183.53)
Hero ($1040.00)

Pre-flop: ($15, 5 players) Hero is BB
2 folds, BTN raises to $28.75, 1 fold, Hero raises to $105, BTN calls $76.25

Flop: ($215, 2 players)
Hero bets $142, BTN raises to $284, $142 to Hero ($793)?

I don't play this high but if this was me I would assume you guys aren't a ton of levels up if he assumes your taking a shot. I find when I move up to new stakes the regs have no idea how I play so they play very standard vs me in the beggining before they get a feel of how I play. I would call this bet assuming hes trying to make a cheap bluff and hope he spew off more on later streets.

Cmon, don't you know yeti? Ofc you are shoving this, wtf? Level doesn't matter.

wa/wb here too but much shallower stacks so I like a shove for value. Why the big cbet?

hmmm I don't really like a shove here. Its not like he's raise calling off 88-JJ here is he?

Why not just flat and let him hang himself? There aren't any draws even!

Don't shove, CIB.

Originally Posted by griffey24

hmmm I don't really like a shove here. Its not like he's raise calling off 88-JJ here is he?

This is why I don't like shoving.

I don't like calling because I feel it's the best way to make our range look stronger than it is. He'll only put money in on further streets when he has us beat.

I don't like folding because if I'm folding KK here than I'm opening the door up to getting exploited hardcore.

I mean the thing thats confusing me is he should pretty much be never raising this flop regardless of his hand so wtf is he doing?

Originally Posted by zook

Why the big cbet?

I feel like 3 streets of small bets looks really strong on this board so I wanted to try and get money in faster. I think my flop bet is getting called a ton more than any turn or river bet so I want to extract as much as I can here.

Originally Posted by griffey24

hmmm I don't really like a shove here. Its not like he's raise calling off 88-JJ here is he?

If he is minraising to induce a shove, then he is calling with his whole range. Are we going to fold our kings in this button battle? If not, then I think raising represents a weaker range than calling and is the best play.

Originally Posted by pocketfours

Originally Posted by griffey24

hmmm I don't really like a shove here. Its not like he's raise calling off 88-JJ here is he?

If he is minraising to induce a shove, then he is calling with his whole range. Are we going to fold our kings in this button battle? If not, then I think raising represents a weaker range than calling and is the best play.

I don't disagree that raising represents a weaker range than calling. I think this is entirely true. BUT I think this is only relevant if villain can
a) raise this flop light for value/as a bluff
AND
b) once we 3 bet, can come BACK over the top of us again light for value/as a bluff

otherwise we're just raising and he's gonna fold most of his air a large portion of the time I feel like, and obviously still continue with Qx.

I mean, this is all history/read dependent in general to be trying to induce this stuff by raising again.

Threebet pot with pretty polarized betting range = CIB.

Calling is dumb because we have absolutely no medium strength hands to protect, only air. We don't have any stack room to c/r bluff the turn.