I'm not folding QQ on 922 flop for a bet one raise. Unless you have a solid read that they are very nitty and are only doing this with a 2, I'm calling the raise. It makes little sense for anyone to raise a 2 on this flop, they would most likely be calling.

If I call there'd be about £140 in the pot leaving me about £150 behind. I suppose on a non spade turn if he half pots it, I just have to decide whether to go along with my QQ or not - All in or fold at this point?

And yes he was really nitty and had only raised previously when he had it. But could easily have had the FD at this point. My point being that he has no air hands and I don't think he's overplaying TPTK or TT.

Pre: If you don't pop this up, it's as if you're setmining. Which I think we can all agree is ridiculous. Your read is that V1 is practically playing his cards face up, and if he doesn't have any light 4bets in his range, take advantage of that. He'll let you know if it's AA/KK or not. Everyone else, dead money, don't let them hit a wonky 2p.

V2: People defend straddles with all kinds of crap. I have no idea why, but absolute garbage they'd never play, if they straddled they defend. Usually they think, "I'm closing the action/pot odds/yolo." OTF, If he really is "super-tight", he'll just overcall with middle PP, non-NFD, often even NFD. Supertight don't get excited about 300BB 3-street semibluffs they way we online degens do. Yes, you are severely underrepped, but still....

Online a 2 checks back b/c we can count on more aggression from OR, and in order to gii it's only 100BB. Here, if he has A2, or even 32, he's hoping OR has AA and won't let it go. Otherwise he flats here, and a blank turn checks around, river will go bet, call, and he will cry a little inside for all the missed value. The only way to get 500BB in the middle is to start early.

Either your read is wrong and he's not super-tight, or your read is fine and you can let it go. I lean towards the latter.

DISCLAIMER: I'm not nearly good enough at either live or online play to give anyone advice, but I do play enough of both to know that they are almost completely different games. Just cuz someone takes what would be an awesome bluff line that we would expect to see online, we can't level ourselves like that at a casino. Completely different players. We're not up against some 24-year old from Belarus who streams League of Legends on twitch while 12-tabling NL25. The guy in this hand has a retirement fund and life insurance.

DISCLAIMER 2: While I want to keep myself aware of possible recency bias, here's a hand from my session at live 1/2 last night. This is what I wrote in my poker diary:

"88 CO 1 limper, I raise to 10. BB ABC Indian guy age 30 or so, makes it 30. Only has about 120 back. MAWG spewtard calls, I overcall. Flop 442, BB shoves 120 into 85. He looked nervous, I wanted to call, had to talk myself out of it. Tank-fold. He showed AA. I hadn't seen him make a move all night. I only called cuz MAWG had 250 or so. I was setmining, next time that's an easy fold. "

Online no one would dream of overshoving such a dry flop, so it's easy to think it's possibly a scared-bully move, and basically it becomes a maths problem. Live, you have some guys who are actively trying to lose their stack, and you can snap them off, and then you have the nits, and you can trust them to tell you where you're at.

1. Know your opponents.
2. Play solid, patient TAG.
3. Money.

Yeah feels more like AK to me. People do weird things live..

I know, right? I'm so conditioned by online lines that even though he showed me AA, I'm still only half-convinced I made a good laydown.