Re: What should I do with KK here?
Let's suppose the villain always has a hand good enough to call a push. Then pushing is better than folding if you win enough against the villain's range. Pushing risks $170 to gain $170+$40+$33 = $243, ignoring the rake, so pushing is better than folding if you win at least 41% of the time. This doesn't mean you have to be ahead 41% of the time. If you usually have about 15% equity when behind (much less against a straight, slightly less against a set, more against two pair) and 65% equity when ahead, then you need to be ahead (41-15)/(65-15) = 52% of the time. I think you are ahead a bit more than this against a very loose villain who usually raises instead of calling postflop, so I think pushing is better than folding.
I think pushing is better than calling, since you are out of position and have an information disadvantage. If you call such a big raise, you have narrowed your range mainly to good pairs, probably an overpair, and while the villain doesn't know which one, that would rarely matter. Just calling would let the villain play almost perfectly against you.
So, I recommend pushing.
By the way, when you raise outside the blinds, it may be natural to raise about 4 BB + 1 for each limper. That's a rule of thumb used by many people. However, this says nothing about the natural size of a raise from the blinds, when you are out of position against limpers who rarely have strong hands, but often have speculative hands. I normally make a much larger raise from the blinds when I raise.
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