HelloAll

Thanks

So your opening a bit bigger because you want to play less hands because of rake. Therefore you need a tighter opening range as opponents will be playing tighter ranges against your bigger sizing?
I sometimes get confused into thinking we are making bigger bets therefore we need more bluffs therefore we should be opening wider, but actually because villains should be playing a tighter range against your bigger opening size you should be opening tighter. Is this right?

Its possible you got villain to fold AK here I think. I don't think villain will ever check better than AK. From his perspective you have can have all the sets and two pairs, the Q is a really bad card for villain as AQ is a big chunk of our range and he you wouldn't shove AJ here unless you are turning your hand into a bluff. That river card would be perfect to do it on. I think your river bet is a more trying to get him off a chop than value betting.

You can call in these positions preflop with alot of pp's to set mine because Villain's range will be so tight usually QQ+ AK and you can get a stack if you hit. I think you played it fine.

Sure but how often does that situation arise? I'm talking about playing against the majority of players in the majority of situations 100bbs deep you want to have the same 3 bet sizes.

3x IP to encourage calls
4x OOP to encourage folds (OOP sucks).
We want same sizes for our bluffs and value hands. :)
I would keep same sizing for all opponents. No reason not to.

I think this is a fold. If we give villain a value range of straights, sets, overpairs. I think even if you give him a ton of bluffs, AXcc and sc's we are at best making a break even call.
It depends on how wide villain is squeezing, if its wide or tight. Even if it is wide his value range has us crushed and we are break even if vs semi bluffs.

I would fold turn. Calling or raising seem minus ev.
If your behind you have few clean outs and the quality of those out are not good
because it will put 4 to a straight on board and it will be hard to get paid if we hit. If river is Js or 7s and villain bets we have to fold.
And if the river is a brick and he still bets a call would be minus ev.
Your OOP so you don't even have the opportunity to bluff shove river on a s if he checks.
I don't think you have alot of fold equity on the turn if any.

It looks like villain has atleast a an AK-Q type hand or two pair trying to get value. I don't really get the overbet because there isn't alot worse that can call. Villain probably only does this with twp pair or better. I'd try and see what he shows down in future to see if he bluffs like this though. I'd expect to see two pair AX alot here.

I think the likelihood your opponent is trying to bluff you on this board with a busted flush draw is very slim. Plus you raised UTG and bet that board so you probably have something that connects with it on the turn. Passive fish tend to only bet and bet big when they make their hand, otherwise they will just call with draws. When you call turn your range could be two pair including overpairs, trips, straights and full houses and I don't think you have to worry about him bluffing you. I would only call here with a hand that can be beat enough of his value hands. And given its an overbet I'm probably only calling with better trips fh's and straights. I'd probably fold 89. Don't think about ranges so much when tendencies are key i.e. does my opponent bluff like this, does he really expect me to fold etc. Ask as many why questions as possible.

Tough spot but when he bets turn when the top card pairs I think his bluffing frequency goes down alot

Villain can have a good few fds not many value hands 5x suited is only a handful of combos and 77. Good plan wp