$5 NLHE Full Ring: AK makes top pair on turn & gets check-raised from BB (5NL micros)

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$5 NL HE Full Ring: AK makes top pair on turn & gets check-raised from BB (5NL micros)

I have AK in LP w/ a big stack and since it's the 5NL micros, two people open limp (of course) so I put in a nice hefty 5bb +1/limper raise. The BB, who is very loose & fairly passive, calls. Unwisely perhaps, I bet the flop hoping to make him fold (ok, I know, fish don't fold, and that one third sized bet wouldn't do it anyway -- I know, that was mistake number one). But happily I make my TP on the turn ... and then I get check-raised.

Full Tilt - $0.05 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 3

MP: $6.56
MP+1: $5.29
LP: $12.64
Hero (CO): $9.53
BTN: $5.00
SB: $1.64
BB: $5.66
UTG: $15.19
UTG+1: $5.17

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has A
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K
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fold, fold, MP calls $0.05, fold, LP calls $0.05, Hero raises to $0.35, fold, fold, BB calls $0.30, fold, fold

Flop: ($0.82, 2 players) 2
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J
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4
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BB checks, Hero bets $0.30, BB calls $0.30

Turn: ($1.42, 2 players) K
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BB checks, Hero bets $0.80, BB raises to $2.00,
Hero....?

*Folds, and give the fish credit?

*Calls, hoping he made his TP as well but had a weaker kicker (like KQ), or maybe we'd split the pot if he had AK? Btw, even w/ a KXs diamond flush draw I'm 73% to win.

*Shove?
 
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I've seen this sort of play at 5NL a lot. How many hands do you have on this player to come to that he is passive is my first question. But if you had a good amount of hands on him and he's passive, I'd say he has KJ and he's happy with his two pair. Unless he's ultra passive, he would have been betting/raising with JJ or KK preflop or even on the flop.

If you only have a small sample size on your conclusion that he is passive, then it could be much more likely that the K helped another draw of his. Like maybe he has QT or AQ. Or like you said that he had two overs to the flop board(which you also see just calling all the time here) like the KQ or even KT. In this case, it might be worth jamming the pot, but he is going to call with the odds being offered and the fact that he was already willing to put in a good amount on the hand already(once these guys put money in, they are locked in)
 
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1) Why is your bet size on the flop so small?
2) You've just been Baluga'd, and you should probably fold. You can also consider not betting the king, since the flop was kinda dry.
 
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I had about 50 hands on him and was basing it on VPIP, PFR, and AF. Not a ton of hands, I realize.

1) Why is your bet size on the flop so small?
2) You've just been Baluga'd, and you should probably fold. You can also consider not betting the king, since the flop was kinda dry.

On the flop, a $.30 bet gave him ~3.7 pot odds; if he was drawing to the flush he would have been incorrectly calling. My $.80 turn bet gave him ~2.8 pot odds. I guess I didn't want to risk that much here w/ larger bets since I really didn't have anything on the flop, and was still vulnerable on the turn. Those amounts were too little you think?
 
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I'd say he has KJ and he's happy with his two pair. Unless he's ultra passive, he would have been betting/raising with JJ or KK preflop or even on the flop.

I wasn't thinking he had KJ, btw, because I figured he'd bet the flop w/ his TP and a drawy board; I didn't think he'd slowplay with Jacks, check/calling the flop, then checking the turn ... but then again w/ stats like his, this fish just might call w/ TP and got lucky by making 2P on the turn. Also didn't put him on, say, KK and suddenly he got his set and got tricky by check-raising.
 
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I had about 50 hands on him and was basing it on VPIP, PFR, and AF. Not a ton of hands, I realize.



On the flop, a $.30 bet gave him ~3.7 pot odds; if he was drawing to the flush he would have been incorrectly calling. My $.80 turn bet gave him ~2.8 pot odds. I guess I didn't want to risk that much here w/ larger bets since I really didn't have anything on the flop, and was still vulnerable on the turn. Those amounts were too little you think?

Its still too small a bet.

Bet bigger
 
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