Line with AQ

I think it's fine, but a check/call might be better vs. this type of player -- you let him fold everything you beat.

I disagree that the flop hits his range more than yours, and with your read, if it had hit him he would have bet the flop.

Also, the raise pre seems really small, but if that's the table norm, I get it.

donking river makes zero sense

Can I point out im IP

Im IP he was the straddle.

But yeah I guess this kind of player can bet for value too

usually raises vary between 3x to 8x in these games

Are we "protecting our checking range" here on the flop? I usually just cbet this. We opened UTG, essentially, given the UTG straddle, we're supposed to hit A42r.

Bet call 50%. Raise turn. Or, if we're concerned about scaring off V---though bet big anyway; they will not believe you opened with only AT here---then at least bet pot or more on what should be a blank river.

Grunch:

PRE - Obviously raising AQs is totally standard.

If our read is that V is wild and will over-play semi-strong starting hands, I'd think he's defending his straddle super-wide when he just flat calls. If that's the case, I think we could get away with raising a bit larger than 8, perhaps 10.

FLOP - Why are you checking back this flop? Just c-bet. You could literally take almost any sizing and not be making a big mistake here. But against a wild and aggro V, I'd likely pot it, if not over-bet the flop, and pray he wants to over-value worse AX by raising.

As for the straddle's range and how it connects with the board - he could literally have any two cards. His range is thus going to be heavily weighted towards total air, or worse value, or some trashy draws.

His thick value hands, like flopped sets and 2P are going to want to shovel money into the pot as fast as possible. But those hands are so extremely unlikely.

So there's no reason to fear betting and getting raised on this ace-high yet otherwise disconnected board. Nor is there any reason to slow-play TP2K when he's likely to float somewhat wide.

TURN - Why are we just flat calling? Did you consider raising? I'd raise huge here, like $50 or even $60, after checking back the flop. We need to get value for our hand, right now. Pray he's betting worse AX or TX, and thinks we're getting OOL because we think he's OOL, and levels himself into 3B'ing.

RIVER - As played to this point, when V stabs turn, we call, and he just checks the river, it's very likely he has nothing, and can't call a bet of any size. If he's at all capable of spaz-raising an absurdly small bet, I'd bet absurdly small, like 10%-15% pot, and pray he finds a huge check-raise in him.

This is directed at OP, not at you, but quoting you because you mentioned protecting our check back range on the flop.

As a general rule at low-stakes, protecting our check-back range isn't all that valuable, because our opponents are largely incapable of noticing and adjusting properly. It becomes even less of a consideration if we're range-betting IP as the PFR, betting for value or as a bluff.

Whether hero has AQs or 76s, he could c-bet this board, especially when our read is that V is wild, but V just flat calls our raise pre, severely weakening his range going to the flop.

Flop We are literally cbetting 100% here, yet you check back? Your check back range is some slowplayed nuts, some weak Ax, some middle pair hands like 99-kk with sdv.
This board is very bad for his range but very good for your range.

not gonna comment on entire hand but OP, can you please explain why you think the board is good for straddle range even though they had to call the raise still?

We really need a sarcasm font for the Internet, despite the air quotes, lol. Agree with your post tho. If we need to consider balancing or GTO etc at a 1/1 table, we're definitely in the wrong game.

Still, 100 straddles and TP2K on this dry of a runout, I think we needed to get more than 20-25 straddles into the pot. We get x-r'd on flop, OK, reevaluate. But I think we could have sized up on the flop and turn (not sure how elastic V's river calling range is) and done a bit better for ourselves. Or V folds to any resistance, as I suspect will be the case here, and we got the maximum.

Yeah that's probably a good point he was defending very wide so could have went larger pre when he straddles.

I think the main reason I checked was he was calling so wide so wanted to let him barrel turn and river.

I guess I could have raised turn. I was more continuing as I thought on flop that he will just have air a lot and wanted to let him barrel river too

I was probably more thinking he can have A2 A4 35 24 which I wont have all of. maybe I was just over thinking it