What is the question here?

How to maximize value against villain´s range in this spot? Line? Bet sizing?

Raising the flop is never a bad idea here with draws on, don't see them folding any Ax to a raise and give how deep you're the only way you'll get their stack is by raising the flop.

You could also of raised the turn bigger than a click it back, $6~ would have been nice.

River made it bigger also.

Just seems you didn't want them to fold and bet small, always bet big as you can get away with when you got a monster.

We have one hand on villain so we don't slowplay a monster here. What if they check the turn, we're going to lose out so we get our value now imo.

Basic thinking I use is to have less than a pot size left by the river so I split my stack up into three streets. After the flop I recalculate for the other two streets so that I have less than a pot size left on the river and can make an all in. Having too many chips left makes it harder for villain to call if we need to make an overbet to get the money in.
If we have say, 3/4 pot left it makes villain feel more 'committed' as it were, at least in my experience.

The following is an example calculation for leaving less than a pot size in our stack by the river.

Effective stack is ours at 23.09
Flop:
Pot is 1.85
Villain bets 1.00 and I raise to 3.00
villain call the 2.00

Turn:
Pot is 1.85 + 3.00 + 3.00 = 7.85

Villain will often go for pot control now and play check/call with Ax a lot. Good, then call this

Villain checks (say), hero bets 5.50

Villain calls 5.50

River:
Pot is 7.85 + 11.00 = 18.85

Hero invested so far: 9.25

Therefore we have: pot - starting stack: 23.09 - 9.25 = 13.84 chips left

Pot of 18.85 > our stack of 13.84.

We now have less than a pot size left and can shove the river.

That's a bit quick so I may not be perfect (that'll be the day!) but that's roughly how I do it. It's also much easier after a bit of practice!



Sometimes it depends on whether we want to get stacks in over three streets or maybe one or two as to the bet sizes.

And guess what, sometimes we raise the flop and they fold!

I hope that made some sort of sense and I haven't confused things further. More experienced players will know more and be able to go into more depth.

Have fun

Not sure I would have even made this over call of the CO 3b. UT is short and I would be too concerned that he would just jam and you have to fold. That's just me though. COvUT 3b is typically very strong as well. So just not sure we are hitting our set enough for this to make money long term.

As played I raise the flop for sure. You hit exactly what you want, so now its time to get as much money as possible to make up for all the times you make that call and have to x/f the flop. If you raise flop, then, as Mal points out, you have stacks in by the river.

There are 2 little math things you can do in your head to figure out how to get stacks in by the river. Building on what Mal says. If you are on the flop: (effective stack - pot size before you bet)/10 = the bet size you need to make on flop to have ~pot size bet or less by river. If you are on the turn: (effective stack - pot size before you bet)/3 = turn bet size to have ~pot size bet or less on the river.

They aren't exact but get you pretty close

I didn't know that one - or I forgot it - so, thanks @fawltyfelix

I agree about preflop given we don't know if the shorty might ship it or not. It would be a fold preflop for me usually.

I'm not sure I like cold calling pre flop with our hand, especially when we don't close the action with a fish behind who looks like he enjoys moving chips around.

Post flop, when he calls our click it back on the turn, he likely has an ace or a draw, I wouldn't use the size you used for the river, I think I would bomb it to get called by his big Ax combo's, which likely aren't folding too often, even though they probably should facing this line.