Against a reg or a reasonably good player, I think checking the flop is good in the 3rd hand. However, I honeslty, think that this guy is bad enough to call me with a Q. The problem with betting is when he raises as a bluff and we fold the best hand.
Anyways, this donk of the third hand is pretty unusual. He is not as passive post flop as he may appear. In a previous orbit the same thing happened: be limps, I isolate, he calls. He donks the flop and I fold (because I missed).
In this hand, his value range is so tight (considering that he would not play A8-AT like this and that AJ+ are probably out of his range) that we do not need to account for that many bluff combos to make this play profitable (according to my read). A few missed FDs and suited hands and I have more equity. My hand was good in the end, actually and he was not even drawing to something (as I assumed at the time).
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