After listening to Xaston on the Skypecast last night I decided to try out some flat calling of big hands in position. It's something I was kinda thinking about doing more of since it seems anyone half decent doesn't call 3-bets OOP much anymore. I don't have much of a read of villain as I've only been at the table a short while. He is 20/15 over a small sample.
Stacks:
UTG ($1197.20)
Hero ($565.60)
BTN ($141.20)
SB ($1531.75)
BB ($870.90)
Pre-flop: ($6, 5 players) Hero is CO [Kh]
UTG bets $16, Hero calls $16, 3 folds
Flop: [3d][Jh] ($38, 2 players)
UTG bets $28, Hero calls $28.
Turn: ($94, 2 players)
UTG bets $72, Hero ??,
I didn't like raising flop because I think I fold out pretty much everything but QQ/AJ and if I get it in there I am probably going to be up against sets/AA almost always. On a more wet board I would probably raise.
I don't know how often or if villain double barrels air, so I assume he has something on the turn here a good amount of the time. However, his something can easily be big spades, so I need to raise here right? What is your line?
Looking back, since we are deepish and villain is not a reg I should have opted to reraise pre. However, a similiar spot could easily come up against a reg quite often.