25nl, bottom set on fugly flop

Villain is 21/17/13% 3bet, seems solid and causing me a few problems. Cbet 4/8 so far and suspect has me down as passive. Villain had also recently flat my 4bet in position and folded to a 1/2 pot cbet on a QJXtt flop.

I think sizing is too small on this particular flop and presumably the turn is an easy c/f despite action so far?


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Hero (BB) ($25)
UTG ($38.96)
Button ($8.61)
SB ($44.04)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 8, 8
UTG bets $0.87, 2 folds, Hero calls $0.62

Flop: ($1.84) 9, 8, 10 (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG bets $1.25, Hero raises to $4.50, UTG calls $3.25

Turn: ($10.84) J (2 players)
Hero bets $5.50, UTG calls $5.50

River: ($21.84) K (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG bets $14.50, Hero folds

Total pot: $21.84 | Rake: $0.98

Raise size should be bigger I agree. Turn isn't necessarily an automatic c/f imo. I'd probably check/evaluate.

What do you think of a smaller turn bet as an alternative, i.e pricing it so that we are giving ourselves odds to boat-up vs the straight/flush part of his range?

Check/decide rather bet imo, a bet doesn't work as value or bluff. He can make mistakes when he bets that we can exploit.

Originally Posted by The Bean Counter

I think sizing is too small on this particular flop and presumably the turn is an easy c/f despite action so far?

^ exactly