[man]

full ring game, 1-3 spread limit. villain is a LAG, and has been raising every other pot preflop. he tends to slow down a little bit postflop, but not by much. he's taken middle pair to a showdown in a three-way pot before.

I'm on the button with 22. one player limps, villain raises to 4 ($3 raise on top of $1 blinds) from UTG+2. one player calls, I call. blinds call.

flop: KKK (pot: $26)

check, check, check, villain bets $3, fold, I raise to $6, fold, fold, fold, villain calls. heads up to turn.

turn: KKK (8) (pot: $32)

villain bets, I call.

river: KKK (8) (T) (pot: $38)

villain bets, I call.

I called preflop [clearly] for set value. I felt confident that some of the blinds would come along to play, and that the EP limper would too.

my flop raise is what makes me cringe in retrospect, but I feel that the villain would have made both the preflop raise and flop bet with A-high.

is calling down my only line after the flop raise? does anyone find a fold here?

(every time you lose a hand at the 1-3 table at turning stone, God kills a kitten.)