Isolate loosie preflop, raise the paired flop w/nothing?

[zephed56]

Opponent seems to be a loose passive. Vpip is 40% after about 30 hands. I have seen him calling along on 1 or 2 hands, folding the turn or river (he didn't catch I guess).

I think he prefers calling, will probably only bet strong hands like top pair good kicker for value, and fold bottom pair type stuff against aggression.

That being said, I don't think 1 loose limper hits this flop that often. And if he does, it's more likely he's really weak. That's why I raised...

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Preflop: Hero is Button with J/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, K/images/graemlins/heart.gif.
<font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, MP2 calls, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, MP2 calls.

Flop: (5.50 SB) 5/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 2/images/graemlins/club.gif, 5/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">MP2 bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises ?</font></font>

[emil3000]

Flopraise is good and pretty standard. What you do if the turn blanks is a better question. I like a bet there as well.

[Nick C]

Possibly if you keep at it, you can push him off of his ace-high plus wheel draw.

I'm thinking what he probably has instead, though, is a pocket pair.

Probably I would have just folded, but given Villain's tendency to fold the turn or river, I can see the case for a raise, too. If he has, say, 77, he might fold later if an overcard hits.

So you may have bluff outs, in addition to your legitimate ones.