K9s Heads up vs competent chip leader

That's a board which is very good for him and he's entitled to bet that large. You're smoked a reasonable amount of the time, he can bluff big at this board a bit as well. What I'm not sure is how often you should be calling with a random Ax here. In any event I'm not sure there's much point in raising...the only hands you beat which will call are going to be a few of the stronger Aces. A call looks strong as well but I'd just go with that and see what happens, if he checks back turn you can happily go for value on the river.

I'm folding or 3-betting K9s from the SB against a splashy BTN, especially when you're less than 250bb effective.

This is not a raise but a bet. So I'm guessing what you would call a re-raise is actually just a raise. It is bet -> raise (2bet) -> re-raise (3bet). Also, I think chipleaders only exist in tournaments.

Yes, I know I'm being annoying, but I do think knowing your terms will actually help you to be taken more seriously.

I would check/call here. I'm not in the habit of playing this deep though, and I never really feel comfortable when I am this deep against someone, so I'm often inclined to take the more passive approach, fwiw.

I snap fold this hand pre. As played, I guess you can call one time, but I'm playing very cautiously.

Don't show bluffs!!!

As a general rule, I wouldn't show a bluff, unless I was determined to play tight after that, at least against that player. I might do it if the game was playing tight, to get people to loosen up, but not at a splashy table with most people straddling.

PRE - Why not raise with K9s? I would, especially if V has been splashy. Make it $160 or even $200.

FLOP - Even though we have 2P, the board favors V's range, and it's rainbow, so I think I'd just check-call, with plans to check-evaluate turn, and possibly lead river if the turn checks through.

In theory, he has all the 2P and set combos here, but if he's splashy, and possibly "out to get us" because we showed a bluff, he might barrel off with all his AX, and maybe even some KX combos, or maybe even some air, because the board is so good for his range.

His c-bet size is huge, like he just wants to take the pot down now. If he's bluffing, he's not calling a raise, and if he has the goods, all we're doing with a raise is torching.

I'd just flat call, and look to play some poker on later streets.

Can't fold now.

For the future, when you're doing your OP's, you don't put a space after the comma when you're typing numbers. It's $2,300, not $2, 300. Not trying to be pedantic, but that threw me for a second. I thought you only started $300 effective.

Also - c'mon, man, give us the pot size on every street so we don't have to maths.

So, the pot is $402 going to the turn, and V bets $150 again, same size he bet on the flop? That's odd, and usually a sign of weakness, but could be he's milking us with thick value. He's got 3 combos of AA and 3 of AK, and a bunch of other $hlt for bluffs and worse value.

I sort of want to raise this small bet, but it's hard to think what worse hands call. I'm not sure if AQ/AJ are calling. Maybe he calls with worse KX, but it's hard to think he'd bet so small with KX when the BDFD appears, and we could be in here with some Broadway draw combos.

I wonder if he's on some sort of draw, and might call a smallish raise, like $550-$600, which would leave about a PSB behind.

Yeah, I think I like that. Raise to $550-$600, targeting his KX, his good draws, and maybe some non-believing AX. Pray he's on a draw that comes in on the river, or puts us on a draw that doesn't come in, because we're jamming the river either way.

We lose value when he's bluffing and planning to barrel the river, but my hunch would be if we flat here, he shuts it down and checks back the river. I'd prefer to take the betting lead now, so we can jam river without it being so insanely face up.