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I dunno if I like leading so much here.
You say he's spewy/aggro, so by leading you're probably going to eliminate alot of the crap in his c-betting range if he's continuing, however given his aggression he'll probably raise draws+overpairs+overcards, so you're probably looking at a fairly balanced range that I'm guessing (not too sure though) that it could be +EV to raise back. I don't know if it makes much of a difference, but since you only have 5.30 left when you raise I like shoving it in, although that's a fairly minute detail.
I don't like leading here because:
1. if he's aggro enough we can probably get a couple streets of value by letting him barrell into us when we check/call
2. He's UTG so his opening range is of course likely to be at its tightest, therefore by leading we may elminate alot of the weaker unmade hands in his range and only be getting played back at with draws/overpairs.
However, I think there may be some advantages to leading as well:
1. you can give him the chance to play back at you lightly - for example, if you lead, he may raise 100% of his range, thus you would be getting the money in faster while your hand is ahead of his range. I'm not sure what sort of reads you have on him when it comes to raising donk bets, but depending on how he reacts to them, leading may be the best choice. If this was the type of player who will raise donk bets with their entire c-betting range, then I think donking would be the right move.
2. by leading we take the initiative and protect our hand from draws/overcards. It sucks if we decide to check/call here and then the turn brings a A/K/Q/diamond since we'd be sort of clueless as to where we are at and will probably have to check/fold since we won't be able to call another bet on the river.
Given this analysis I think the way you played the hand was fine, and we could probably assume both leading or c/c'ing would be generally correct. However, I think one would be favoured over the other given any additional information you have on his postflop play.
1 more thing: by check/calling instead of leading, we keep the pot smaller, because it's harder to villain to get us all in when we're not giving him a chance to raise a bet to bloat the pot.
I'm not really sure about my analysis here. If it's wrong I can't wait to hear someones input since these spots can be tricky and I'd like some feedback too on how to handle them.
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