What am I doing

Can't locate the hand history, so this is the close approximation. It's 50 NL on Full Tilt. Villain is TAggy but verging on unknown due to small sample size. He's 3-bet twice before in like 50 hands. Effective stacks are $70 (140 BBs). Questions: 1. too loose to be continuing after his 3-bet here? 2. Bet the turn or check behind with my megadraw?

I am dealt :Td: in the CO.

Preflop: folds to me, hero raises to 1.50, button calls, SB folds, villain in the BB 3-bets to 5.00, hero calls, button folds.

(11.75) Flop: :Qd:
Villain bets 7.50, hero calls.

(26.75) Turn:
Villain checks, hero..?

Bet

fold pre, raise flop, bet turn

Zook, are you checking behind or betting turn when our flop raise get's called?

Originally Posted by minSim

Zook, are you checking behind or betting turn when our flop raise get's called?

shoving turn with the additional outs

Fold preflop.

Checking behind and betting the river when checked to credibly represents a pot control play with a hand like A-Q or K-Q, and avoids a check-raise when he has a hand. If he checks to you twice, he probably only has a really weak bluff-catcher and won't call often at all. I'm not sure if he's thinking this way, though, so maybe you should just semi-bluff the turn.

i really do not like a flop raise and am 50/50 about betting the turn.

i would make that ambigous $16-20 turn bet, try and take it, but it's like dsaxton said: is this a guy who would respect pot control plays with hands like AQ? if so check/decent bet is best

Deanglow, what are your thoughts on a flop raise? I didn't like it either, but I'm finding it hard to articulate why now. Maybe because I think he continues/3-bets with some really strong hands (big pairs, AdKd) that make up a lot of his range anyway, and folds hands that I could probably just bet out on the turn..?

Originally Posted by parislad

i would make that ambigous $16-20 turn bet, try and take it, but it's like dsaxton said: is this a guy who would respect pot control plays with hands like AQ? if so check/decent bet is best

Yeah, I wish I knew. My feeling is that not enough players at 50 NL respect or understand pot control plays - they just see weakness and go into attack mode. Even a lot of somewhat decent TAggs are like that. Going on that possibly-wrong generalization, I made an $18 bet (knowing I was coming close to pot-committing myself), and luckily he folded.

yea ive played that level a while now and would agree with your generalisation-pot control slips most their minds
i know one of poker's most overused cliches is that 'this is a situational game' but as a rule of thumb, and especially with the aggressive nature of the game now, don't you think that you have to have pretty solid reasons not to semi bluff in a spot like this unless given clear reasons not to? opposition welcomed