Ok getting back into the live cash games.  After going out to Vegas for the WSOP and meeting with all of the pros at the TPE meetup, I realized I had to start focusing more of my effort on live cash games.  I had dreams of becoming exclusively live tournament pro, but after talking with many professionals who haven't had a real job in a decade, they set me straight: the life of a live tournament grinder is extremely difficult.  Long flights, travel expenses, never seeing your family.  That doesn't fit into my plans to get married and have a balanced life.  They universally said, “Focus most of your energy on live cash, and take your shot at the tournaments.  Cash games are your milk, where you know you can sit down at the table and make $50 an hour.  It's true you may win 20k at a $200 tournament, but that happens very rarely.”

They are right.  After looking over my MTT results over the last 6 years, I've made anywhere from 2.5k – 10k per year.  But if you take out my 2 best cashes in any of those years, I am a losing player.  Variance in the mtts is unreal!  Thank you Tim, Joe, and Andrew!  Cheers!

Ok on to the hand.  I was at my local casino in a 2/3 NL game $300 cap.  I had a tight image, was not playing many hands at all.  The Villian had been very loose aggressive, stealing blinds, defending his blinds, and I would estimate he was playing 40% of his hands.  Villian and I both had about $250.  I pick up KQ in MP, and raise to $11 (my standard open from this position).  Folds to the SB who calls.  BB folds.  HU to the flop.

Pot – $25

A K 3

Villian checks, I bet $22.  Villian calls.

Trying to range him before the flop was almost imposible, because I had seen him defend with as little as 85s.  But from the SB I think he would be a bit tighter, and now that the flop has come and he check-called my cbet I would put him on something like this:

Ax (I think he would check call a weak ace), Kx, QJ, JT, and pairs 88 and below.  (I think he would have 3bet me pf w/ 99+)

Pot – $64 (minus the $5 rake)

Turn:  8

Villian checks, I check behind.

At this point I'm putting him on the same range, anything from a small pp to a weak ace that just wants to get to showdown.

River:  5

Villian checks,  Hero ???

I'm not sure if I can bet for value here?  I was afraid if I bet he would check-raise me off my hand (I saw him do this before to another player), and I thought he would fold almost everything except an ace or he might call w/ a weaker King.

Thanks for the replies!

~Steve