$2 NLHE Full Ring: KK should I have played this more aggressively?

888 Poker - $0.02 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP+1: 132.5 BB (VPIP: 11.17, PFR: 9.64, 3Bet Preflop: 7.69, hands: 199)
Hero (MP+2): 141.5 BB
CO: 100 BB (VPIP: 16.22, PFR: 13.51, 3Bet Preflop: 6.67, Hands: 74)
BTN: 102 BB (VPIP: 22.97, PFR: 16.22, 3Bet Preflop: 4.00, Hands: 74)
SB: 67.5 BB (VPIP: 66.67, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 15)
BB: 53 BB (VPIP: 30.00, PFR: 10.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 30)
UTG: 54.5 BB (VPIP: 48.48, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 67)
UTG+1: 143.5 BB (VPIP: 22.58, PFR: 16.13, 3Bet Preflop: 10.00, Hands: 31)
MP: 137 BB (VPIP: 10.00, PFR: 10.00, 3Bet Preflop: 8.33, Hands: 72)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has K:heart: K:diamond:

UTG calls 1 BB, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 4 BB, fold, fold, SB calls 3.5 BB, fold, fold

Flop: (10 BB, 2 players) 5:spade: A:diamond: 9:club:
SB bets 7.5 BB, Hero calls 7.5 BB

Turn: (25 BB, 2 players) J:heart:
SB checks, Hero bets 15.5 BB, SB calls 15.5 BB

River: (56 BB, 2 players) J:club:
SB checks, Hero checks

Close to moving up stakes. I feel like I have become way more aggressive pre and on the flop, however on the river and turn I find situations where I am not entirely sure what to do.

Should I be attacking the river when the villain slows down? He hadn't played many hands but seemed pretty passive and the donk on the flop made me slow down. I put him on ace rag.

x/turn, bet river if checked too and fold if he bets.

I hate when an A flops when I have K's. Guessing nobody likes it. Not sure what to do when that happens. Hoping to hear from someone how to play this.

Calling flop, checking turn, folding river if he bets and checking behind if he checks. Bad runout to go for thin value against pair of 5s, 9s, 66-88, 1010, QQ that didnt 3-bet pre. We bet strictly for value or as a bluff. Not somewhere in-between. Not because our opponent checked, because we might have the best hand, to get info, to take the lead in the pot, because our opponent slowed down, etc.

As played he almost always has a weak ace, like A10 or lower/AQ. His range is super capped, and against a nitty/ABC/decent player, as played, I'm turning our hand into a bluff OTR and betting near pot. He can almost never have a strong/nutted hand the way he played the hand, while we can. AA/AJ/JJ/99 and AK are basically the bulk of our flop calling and turn + river barreling range, and he can't call here with a bluff-catcher really. But I don't expect 2NL-25NL players (and a decent amount of 50NL/100NL players too) to fold TP here so I just give up.

Delvuter said:

I hate when an A flops when I have K's. Guessing nobody likes it. Not sure what to do when that happens. Hoping to hear from someone how to play this.

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An ace flopping when we have KK isn't that bad. Just because there is an ac out there does not mean our opponent has on. Especially HU. If an ace flops we go for thin value or use KK as a bluff-catcher.

Turn should be a check behind for pot control and get ready to peel off a river bet.

I'd prefer to just check behind the river... Our hand can't withstand a raise or a shove. Generally in this situation we rarely get more than 2 streets of value, unless our opponent is very bad.

We only have a small sample for villain so we can't treat it as gospel but the looser this guy the more we can get aggro and make some money but I feel its a touch too early.