After there few hands i started to feel like Tuff fish. Life doesn't get any better than when you hit TPGK on monotone board of different suit than your hands and naturally you get action on all of them.

hand 1:
Preflop
Villian has 295$ in this hand and I have him covered. He is running at 40/5.5/0.5 after 50 hands. So kinda limited reads. Table is 5 handed and I raise to 16$ in first position.
Villain in BB is the only caller.

Flop
Pot: 34$
He checks I decide to CB to standard 27$. He calls quickly.

Turn
Pot: 88$
He checks quickly so I decided that he might be on a spade draw and I decide to protect my hand. I bet 65$ and he instaminiraises. I fold obviously but should I bet turn here? I mean could he really be making this move without a flush? This cant be a naked 2x? or some ridiculous 54x? am i turning my hand into a bluff by betting turn since i dont beat too many Axs while i have marginal holding at best on ridiculously bad flop

hand 2:

Preflop
I have 400$ in the hand and villain has me covered. He is running at 45/14/2.4 after 170 hands. Seems a bit loose but he is not too fishy.
UTG limps, I raise in CO to 16$ and villain calls in OTB . UTG called my raise as well.


Flop
Pot: 50$
Here we go again, this time I don't even have position. UTG checks I decide to check since my hand cant stand a raise and then villain bets 48$. Up to this point I didn't notice him betting this hard, but I haven't been paying too much attention to him. UTG folds and I decide just to call since a raise of 150$ here would be spewing since I would be raising for info at most situations, not value. WA/WB scenario

Turn
Pot: 146$
I decide to check in hopes to get a check from villain. Unfortunately he fires again a
strong 140$ bet. At this point calling is not an option, since I will have 200$ left on the river and will be forced to call most rivers. Its either push or fold. Villian is not too aggro so its questionable if he is capable fo doing this with a draw. He picked a strong line and he has either AT, AJ(unlikely) AQ, set or flopped flush. Hero is obviously drawing dead to all hands that are ahead of him besides AT. Please give comments on each street.

Basically I ran into few more hands like this today so I really want to set a standard line for myself since I have usually 10-15 sec to act at max. I can either lead flop always, get called or raised and basically not know for sure where i stand, I can CR if OOP and donate close to 1/2 of my stack just to find out if I'm beat. Or i can C/C flop, and fold to turn bets from non aggro opponents and bet turn if villain checked flop. What is the best line? Did i forget any?
tnx

When it's a mono flop and you have position...just check behind on the turn and you'll induce tonnes of bluffs AND keep the pot smaller...

I would both fire the turn in hand #1 and lead/stack off in hand #2.


40/5/X = flush draw like all the time. Sorry ur running bad.