NL400: Live Hand vs Semi-Loose Passive Player At Dry Board. What Would You Do?

Question

This is a live hand in a London Casino. The place was a little busier than the norm. The regs seemed to be drinking more than usual (Tough week perhaps?!). The atmosphere was more playful, less serious and I was happy to go with that flow.

Opponent appears to be a poor semi-loose passive player. I don't know too much about her. Seems like she'd sat down after having a successful spin up on the roulette tables, although she was certainly no degen. That's questionable as she was playing house games! (: She's playing overall around ~25% VPIP/15% PFR/1.0 AF over the last 1-2 hours, so maybe ~100 hands. She's not distracted, somewhat attentive. I get the feeling this is a comfortable scenario for my opponent.

Looking back there are some things I would've done differently during the hand, but that's just me. What do you think?

Thanks.

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$4 NL (Full Ring) - Holdem - 7 players

Hero (SB): $1780
BB: ~$1500
UTG: ~$800
UTG+1: ~$800
MP: ~$550
CO: ~$850
BTN: ~$850

Pre Flop: Hero is SB with K♥ J♥
UTG raises to $18, 4 folds, Hero calls $16, 1 fold

Flop: ($40, 2 players) K⋄ 8♠ 6♣
Hero checks, UTG bets $46, Hero calls $46

Turn: ($132, 2 players) 6♥
Hero checks, UTG checks

River: ($132, 2 players) 8⋄
Hero bets $90, UTG calls $90

Answer 1

I'd fold this hand PF. You are playing heads-up OOP with a hand that does not fare well against her range, and is unlikely to win any decent pots with the bare TP.

You other actions are fine by me:

The call on the flop:

Folding here to the standard CBet would make no sense - what did you want to flop? And why wouldn't she bet a King dry flop with her entire range?

You don't know if you are ahead or behind, but raising to find that out is too expensive when you can probably find that out by calling and checking and seeing what she does on the turn. Small hand small pot.

The check on the turn

If you are ahead here, it's unlikely that she will call anything with a losing hand - so it's better to make a value bet on the river, when she may make a crying call with a pocket pair to snatch the 'obvious' bluff.

You don't fear much giving a free card here, because if she is behind, she probably has only 2 outs if she has a pocket pair, or 3 outs if she has an Ace; Maybe 5 outs if she has something like the 89s, but that's less likely.

The bet on the river

She has checked the turn and the river, and will suspect a bet from you may be a bluff - this is probably a good place for a thin value bet to extract value from a pocket pair. I'd probably fold if she raised here, but it would depend on the opponent.