Deepish stacks, top pair + flush draw. "Pretty standard stuff, really"

[SpaceAce]

Online no limit game. Villain has not gotten out of line that I've seen. He doesn't seem exceptionally strong or weak but he is at least reasonably tight pre-flop and is the second biggest stack at the table behind me. The rest of the players are pretty weak as far as I can tell, mostly of the "way too loose pre-flop, give up on the flop" variety.

Villain has about 200x the big blind, I have 300. We both have at least 1.5x what anyone else in the hand has.

Pre-flop: UTG limps, UTG+1 (villain) raises to 4x the big blind. Two players cold-call (a bit unusual), I call from the big blind with KdQd and the first limper calls.

The flop: a black Queen and two diamond rags.

Given that the limpers are likely to give up pretty easily and that the villain and I are pretty deep, what line do you like to take, here?

SpaceAce

[kagame]

i would definitely lead the flop for starters
i think most of the time a check raise would be expected from a hand of this strength, but you need information
(as this is what your post is about in my mind)

excessive action behind you involving the big stack makes this easy. a raise from a shorter stack is easy to play.

if they just call youre probably way or slightly ahead.

[aggie]

Bet 100 on the flop and go from there. What to do from there depends on who calls (or raises) and what there stack sizes are.

[partygirluk]

I'm leading, hoping for Villain to raise so I can come back over the top. I want to put him to a decision - it will be hard for him to call there with anything but QQ, and even then you are alive.

[SpaceAce]

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i would definitely lead the flop for starters
i think most of the time a check raise would be expected from a hand of this strength, but you need information
(as this is what your post is about in my mind)

excessive action behind you involving the big stack makes this easy. a raise from a shorter stack is easy to play.

if they just call youre probably way or slightly ahead.

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Thanks for the response. I also lean toward leading in this situation.

SpaceAce

[SpaceAce]

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I'm leading, hoping for Villain to raise so I can come back over the top. I want to put him to a decision - it will be hard for him to call there with anything but QQ, and even then you are alive.

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Exactly, I am hoping to get a reasonable raise out of the villain. I don't know this villain well enough to know if he is the kind to go broke with such a big stack if he only has AA but I don't think he is. I think he folds AA, KK and AQ if I come over the top and even if he calls, I am drawing very live, although my prospects are grim is he holds QQ.

SpaceAce