Bad spot with AKo

I fold, we can't even beat two pair. Otherwise it's played fine, however I would fold the turn since I'm not seeing too much IO's there if another diamond did come out.

Bigger pf.

Check flop or bet 20. 50 way too big.

Fold river especially holding the Kd.

You can't fold the turn with TPTK and nut flush draw.

What do you think he has when he min-raises a monotone board, gets called, then bets hp ott? He can beat an ace, so we're calling hoping to hit a flush. I don't think he does this with AxQd.

Even if you give him credit for better than TPTK, you can't fold the nut flush draw.

Don't like the cbet on the flop for this size. I would play this hand in a check call line as this board will be extremely bad for our range and we need some hands that make for easy to check call on multiple streets. When we do decide to cbet on this board (low freq if at all) we want to use much smaller sizings on most mono boards esp ones this connected.
As played I would be extremely concerned facing minraise on the flop, alarm bells would be going off. You can see the issue with using such a big sizing on the flop as now we're in a world of pain and just calling to try to hit one of our 9 outs (or more likely 7 since opponent very likely has a flush in this line). As played river is a clear fold esp since we block opponents most likely bluff which will be something like KdQx KdJx etc.

This is good advice.

We can play this flop as a pure check, but if we were to bet, it should be small size because it is a monotone board.

Definitely folding river as played unless V is a spewey agro player.

Not sure if I 100% agree. V bet about 1/2 pot. You're not getting the right odds to directly draw to the flush, especially since flushes are a big part of his range. If V has the flush, you have only 7 outs. You would have to assume the ace and king are good a decent percentage of the time to make the call. If Hero makes his flush, it's going to be 4 diamonds and it will kill any action unless V has a Q high or J high flush. Hard to get more value on the river.

That said, it's not a terrible call.

As played, fold the river. Top Top is never good here. V is putting in 375 blinds. He has a flush nearly 100% of the time.

So long as you folded to his shove you played it fine. People will debate sizing PF and on the flop, but I think it's OK.

The minraise on the flop tells me you're behind, but you're getting a decent price to continue with top pair and the nut flush - I would say he either has a set or two pair (trying to protect against 4th diamond), or a medium strength flush trying to get value in.

Either way, the hand ran it's course and it's now time to fold. Maybe you could have saved yourself a few bucks with a smaller cbet but it's debatable.

Let's say hypothetically you get there on the river with another diamond, I think you have to bet pot or more, and hope he can't fold. This way you get yourself the implied odds to call turn and make up for the fact that it's likely a -EV call drawing just to the nut flush draw, but you can ensure you get paid 1 out of 5 times or whatever when you hit.

Check or bet smaller on flop. Fold turn. Easy fold on river as played.

Don't fold turn for half pot.

With the A♦ out there on the flop, the number of flush combos you have as the pfr is reduced greatly. True, villain does not have the nuts (unless 53dd) but they know you probably don't either.

As such the flop 2/3 pot bet isn't as much of a threat and invites both value seeking and bluffs. With stacks this deep we aren't happy about a growing pot. Different story than if you had $200 stacks.

As played, turn is fine and I'd fold river.

I don't mind the big flop bet. This is a limp-caller and you want to get value from an Ace before a four-flush appears, and also to build the pot for the same reason on the rare occasions you out-flush them. As played, flop and turn are fine, now fold river.

FLOP - just check, or bet really small, like 15%-20% pot, when OOP as the PFR on this monotone board.

As played - call the min-raise, but be leery. Min-raises are usually pretty nutted. He doesn't really have bluffs here, after limp-calling pre.

TURN - Check-calling isn't terrible, given the price you're getting to try to spike another diamond on the river, or take a chance he'll check back on a brick.

RIVER - Rather than just checking and hoping V checks back, I might take stupid-small sizing here, like $50, with the Kd in our hand, blocking him from having the nuts. He'll almost never raise, either for value or as a bluff.

As played - with the Kd in our hand, it's close, but after you raise pre, called his flop raise, and called his turn bet, it's much less likely he's jamming as a bluff here. I think we have to fold.