50NL HU Live: Deepstacked, River Flush on Paired Board

After a game dissolved from 4 to 2 people, Villain and I are heads up. Everyone within a 20ft radius considers me suicidally aggressive. The table is maybe 6ft long.

Down to 3-handed, I shot through my $10 buy-in (we started .10/.25) and some cash on top of that- my aggressive play did me in when a separate enemy flopped a full and slow-played it. I bought back in (short stacked) for $20. I've been showing a light 3-bet or two, and moved in with an OESD that this Villain folded to.

During the 3-handed portion of the match I raised preflop about 15 hands in a row, folded one or two, and raised preflop another 10 hands in a row. I stole most of the blinds and small pots which recouped me back to break-even for the night, with a few bucks on top to cover this Villain, but we are about even at ~$35.

My c-bet % is highish (maybe 70-80%) but lower when OOP. Villain c-bets almost 85% of the time in position, and 95% on paired flops.

Villain overvalues KJ sort of hands in full ring. HU, he will play small pocket pairs OOP, all paint, any Ax, etc. That doesn't narrow his range too much, but he has been folding to most of my preflop raises and letting me take his blinds. I've been raising a good number of pots preflop, but not as many as during the 3-handed portion.

Again, Villain perceives me as overly aggressive and bullying. He *won't* tripple-barrel me without some sort of hand, and *probably won't* double-barrel me (because I'll go over the top so often).

Stacks about $35+ all. My bet values are inexact, but close.

Hero posts BB $0.50
Villain (Bo) posts SB $0.25

Preflop
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Hero is dealt 5 7

Villain calls $0.25
Hero raises to $1.50
Bo calls $1.00

Nothing interesting here, my raise is fairly standard.

($3.00 Pot) Flop comes 2 Q Q

Hero checks
Villain bets $1.50
Hero calls $1.50

I think, "This is a continuation bet. I'll probably bet the turn and take the pot there."

($6.00 Pot) Turn 8

Hero bets $3.00
Villain calls $3.00

"Alright, wtf. Unless I make my flush, I'm out of here."

($12 Pot) River is the J

"Yay!"
Hero bets ~$5
Villain raises to ~$10

{Pot is now ~$27}
{Hero has ~$21 remaining}
{Villain has ~$16 remaining)

Hero...

I'd think he has a Q and failed to make his boat, and he is trying to push you off the river because he doesn't believe u have the flush.

Or he did make his boat and it's a value raise.

Don't know which one, if any, is true cause I suck.
That's my humble opinion.

i don't understand you check/call on the flop then lead out on hte turn, what are you trying to represent??? I really don't mind check/calling the flop, then check/raising turn becuase that represents a pretty damn strong hand and if called we have a flush draw that we can hit, but leading out makes no sense on the turn.

As for river, just flat call the raise

switch0723 said:

i don't understand you check/call on the flop then lead out on hte turn, what are you trying to represent??? I really don't mind check/calling the flop, then check/raising turn becuase that represents a pretty damn strong hand and if called we have a flush draw that we can hit, but leading out makes no sense on the turn.

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I questioned the turn play more and more as I looked back at the hand. You are right, the correct play is probably the check/raise. I was trying to represent a pocket pair by leading out on the turn. But I wouldn't play the flop that way if I *did* have a pocket pair, so my turn play was bad.

If he checks behind I bet the river no matter what, and I get a free shot at a flush. I like the check/raise better here.