c-bet the small stack HU on draw heavy board?

[CCCP]

A situation I think we see often, how do you play this one?


Villian is a loose small stack (25BB or so) and limps in (any position).

You are in the SB with AQo, and raise it up to 5x, and Villian calls.

Flop is draw heavy. maybe 4c5c9h
Villian is loose, so could have just about anything here: two overcards, SC,offsuited connectors, Axs, Kxs, Qxs.

If you c-bet 1/2 pot, you know villian will probably stick around, even with QJ/Q8 type hands. If I check, I expect villian may push.

Do I c/f? Push to force him to a decision now? Make the c-bet anyway and hope he lets it go?

[Gospy]

This is a really good question. I am curious to see how this is discussed. But, what I usually do is depending on how passive the villain is, I will throw out a bet and fold to a shove unless the bet commits us to the pot. I think that the decision is probably different depending on exact stack sizes and reads though.

In your example, I'd expect the villain to shove if he has hands like J9, but fold if he missed. Maybe I'm wrong though, but that's what I'm basing my argument on.

[CCCP]

bump. Nobody has any ideas here?

[Lego05]

Ok so there's like 11BB's in pot and villian has like 20BB's in his stack.

I'd bet about 7BB's, fold to a shove and shutdown if called unless I hit an A or Q or his bets are just tiny like 1 or 2BB's. It's better when you're in position cause you check behind on turn and maybe occasionally pick off his ridiculous missed flush draw bluff with A high. I've gotten to the point where sometimes I'll call a half pot bet on the river in this situation with A high cause I think I'm good. That is very rarely though and I don't recommend it.

[mookboi]

Depends on villain & his fold to Cbet % and overall post flop aggro factor, how often he goes to SD, etc.

Vrs. Unknown, this is a tough spot. I usually just fire CBet and if board is really dry, can convince myself into calling shove. On drawy board I just check/fold.

[maciczka]

just try to classify players, dont cbet into calling stations, elsewhere, when heads-up - cbet 99%. on very drawy boards cbet less often.