Live 1-2 with a donkey in the middle.

[illuminati]

The game is now 7 handed after a donkey or two left. We have been playing for a couple of hours at a reasonably large casino in the UK. The main villain in the hand is a young Chinese dude who plays live for a living (I see him at a lot of tournaments at various casinos, he doesn’t have a job or anything) and a total drooler i.e. calling off ¼ of his stack pf with JTs etc. The decent dude plays well enough for a live player but can become restless/bored after prolonged play, and plays in a somewhat straightforward manner.

My stack: $300.
Villain: Covers.
Drooler: ~180.

Drooler limps is EP, another caller, I raise to 14 in the CO with T9d.

Villain glances at me and calls in the BB, as does the drooler, other limper folds.

3 to the flop. Pot = ~$46.

Flop: 78Qr.
Checked to me, I bet $32, both call.

Turn: Some brick, check-check and I choose to check. (The turn also brings a spade flush draw).

Pot = ~$142

River Js, completing the backdoor spade draw.

Decent Chinese lad bets $75, idiot calls, easy value shove or call?? Fwiw I am not worried about the drooler calling, he can easily have a crappy Q or a J here.