$50nl HU Tricky spot with JJ facing aggression from passive player

The problem here is that i have no idea what villains range is.

Preflop villain has been very aggressive, 3betting light a lot, raising ~95% of buttons. On the flop, turn and river however, villain has been very passive, willing check/folding dry flop after they have 3 bet, or taking the line check/ check/ ckeck/call with top pair ace. So generally very passive and more of a calling station. (even check called a bet on the river with middle set on a dry board after betting 1/5th pot bets with it)

So what kind of range can we put villain on here

He had been folding to a lot of 3 bets fwiw, so i don't see him calling one with a 3 in his hand, except pock 3's maybe

pokerstars Game #19464732506: Hold'em No Limit ($0.25/$0.50) - 2008/08/08 - 17:58:37 (ET)
Table 'Union III' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: eskko ($56.20 in chips)
Seat 2: switch0723 ($58.65 in chips)
eskko: posts small blind $0.25
switch0723: posts big blind $0.50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to switch0723 [Js Jh]
eskko: raises $1.50 to $2
switch0723: raises $4 to $6
eskko: calls $4
*** FLOP *** [3h 3c 5c]
switch0723: bets $7.50
eskko: raises $7.50 to $15
switch0723: ???????

You raised his $2 to $6 and he flat called. My first instinct would be that he doesn't hold AA he may hold KK AK or possibly a lower pair. If he had AA he most likely pushes back. One would think that he'd do the same with KK. So, I'm guessing QQ to 88 is a possibility. Could be lower. Heaven help you if he had 33 or 55. With almost 25% of your stack in there are you going to fold? You are a better man than I then!

HU can be tricky. I'm not sure about your raise preflop--or amount of raise. With what you describe you may have gotten a different story post flop from him. Straight up HU is not my strength. I play HU better from eliminating people in a SnG.

tbdbitl said:

You raised his $2 to $6 and he flat called. My first instinct would be that he doesn't hold AA he may hold KK AK or possibly a lower pair. If he had AA he most likely pushes back. One would think that he'd do the same with KK. So, I'm guessing QQ to 88 is a possibility. Could be lower. Heaven help you if he had 33 or 55. With almost 25% of your stack in there are you going to fold? You are a better man than I then!

HU can be tricky. I'm not sure about your raise preflop--or amount of raise. With what you describe you may have gotten a different story post flop from him. Straight up HU is not my strength. I play HU better from eliminating people in a SnG.

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Meh, i don't see TT+ being in his range here, he 4bets those hands, im pretty confident about that.

As for having 25% of my stack in the pot, i don't think thats really relevant, you know don't throw good money after bad blah blah.....

So are you suggesting that i push over the top? or flat call?

Also, if you don't like my preflop raise, how much would you have 3bet to??

switch0723 said:

Meh, i don't see TT+ being in his range here, he 4bets those hands, im pretty confident about that.

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I missed this part so yeah I guess I would be as confused as you. I take it you folded. Or you'll enlighten us later with what he held.

I don't get his flat call.

I may have just raised him $2.00. But, like I said this isn't my strength.

dont really think u can put him on 10-10 + because as u said, he would most likely 4 bet you with those hands
66 to 99 probably raises that flop as it misses u like 99% of the time and it is a good spot to bluff if he only has unpaired high cards, maybe a flush draw trying to take the pot d0wn 1 time
i would most likely push this

easy shove .....what could he have??.....I put him on a flush draw or a smaller pair since he didn't 4 bet preflop....

I am thinking he is on a 5 or a small pp 6-9. That or he is just trying to outplay you since it is HU. I would say shove.

Well i did shove and villain instacalled with a,2 of clubs so was actually favourite, and he hit the 4 of clubs just to beat me in style