Live 1/2: AK Line check

[friedace]

Hey guys,

Live 1/2 game. $300 Max buy. 10 handed. UTG+1 is playing with the rooms money and raising to 15 every hand preflop, then better all streets - very laggy. He is down to his last $37 bucks after losing a pot a couple hands before this where he reraised an EP raiser with JJ and called EP rereraise, then got it all in on the flop. SB seems to be a semi-decent player; I've seen him check behind on the turn with TPTK for pot control.

Stacks:
UTG+1 ~40
Hero ~220
SB ~200

Hero dealt AK on the button

UTG+1 straddles for 5, folds to Hero, Hero raises to 15, SB calls, UTG+1 calls.

Pot 48

Flop: Kh Jh Jc

UTG+1 quickly shoves all-in for $25. I ponder, then call. SB raises to $50.

--> Right now, the pot is ~148. I have $180 left and SB has about $160.

Hero raises all-in to 180$. SB calls.

What do you guys think of this? My initial point of just calling the $25 and not raising on the flop was for pot control incase SB has a J. Somewhat surprisingly, I also at the same time wanted to draw him in with a weaker king and sweeten up what, at the time, I thought was a small pot. Now that I look back, I realize that with my call, the pot would have been $98, so calling would be giving the flush really good odds to draw. I think just raising here would be better. That being said, if I raise, should I fold to a push? As mentioned above, his range is quite large and he has a flush draw most of the time, so I'd have to call right?

As played, I pushed on the flop because I thought that if an A, 10, or heart come off on 4th, I won't be able to get away from the pot which would be around $165 at that point, and I'd only have $180 left. I was also thinking about hand ranges and that even though the SB min raise to $50 on the flop is suspicious, he has way more combos of a flush draw or maybe even KQ, than combos for having one of the last 2 jacks in his hand (Thanks Galfond!!!! hehe). Is this thinking correct? If someone could post their interpretation of hand ranges in this scenario, it would be greatly appreciated.

friedace

[kidpokeher]

Paired boards suck and SB is raising instead of calling. One of them's got you beat.

[friedace]

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Paired boards suck and SB is raising instead of calling. One of them's got you beat.

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Yeah, I was going with reasoning that if a pair flops, it's less likely that a person connected. I should also add that the SB has been playing pretty loose too and readily calls 15 pf from any position, just like UTG+1. Also, I was really not worried about UTG+1 because he could easily have any two cards in that position. So, in sum, UTG+1 range is infinity, and SB is pretty wide to (as I described in my op).

Thanks for the rep.