Tough spot against a LAG
Here is a hand i played couple days ago online on a Croatian poker site.It is 6-max table with 2/4 blinds.My opponnent is a LAG reg who has been dominating the table for the whole session raising a large chunk of the time both with his good hands and also with some marginal hands such as suited connectors and some suited gappers.I have been waiting for some playable hand to get involved with him and here is the hand where i think my river decission to call the river wasnt good in the long run but against such a agro opponent i tought it has some +EV
Villain(stack 458,40)
opens from HJ for 14
Hero(stack 812,29)
calls from CO with
: 
everyone else folds
Flop:


Villain bets 28
Hero calls 28
Turn:
Villain bets 60
Hero raises to 150
Note:Facing the bet of 2/3 pot i wasnt feeling very comfortable with top pair and second kicker since i have seen this guy bets the turn same way with some strong hands and i have also seen him do that with some good draws.Since i have the queen in my hand i put him on a flush draw(with a pair maybe) or a possibly straight draw but my main idea was that against such a loose and agro player i wasnt really gonna throw away my top pair.
Villain calls!
Pot size 390
River:
Villain shoves for 266,40
Hero calls 266,40
Villain shows
and we ended chopping the pot
After the hand Villain was ranting and said to me :How can you call that?!
That is such a bad call.I think i played the hand ok and my tought on the river was that given the pot odds 2,46/1 i have to be right about 30% of the time and aginst this type of player i tought i can make that call.What do you think?I am still not sure it is the right play
Villain(stack 458,40)
opens from HJ for 14
Hero(stack 812,29)
calls from CO with


everyone else folds
Flop:



Villain bets 28
Hero calls 28
Turn:

Villain bets 60
Hero raises to 150
Note:Facing the bet of 2/3 pot i wasnt feeling very comfortable with top pair and second kicker since i have seen this guy bets the turn same way with some strong hands and i have also seen him do that with some good draws.Since i have the queen in my hand i put him on a flush draw(with a pair maybe) or a possibly straight draw but my main idea was that against such a loose and agro player i wasnt really gonna throw away my top pair.
Villain calls!
Pot size 390
River:

Villain shoves for 266,40
Hero calls 266,40
Villain shows


After the hand Villain was ranting and said to me :How can you call that?!
That is such a bad call.I think i played the hand ok and my tought on the river was that given the pot odds 2,46/1 i have to be right about 30% of the time and aginst this type of player i tought i can make that call.What do you think?I am still not sure it is the right play
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You state that weren't feeling very comfortable on the turn but you elect to raise? That's counterintuitive imo. Given the player I think we're happy calling down here but it's wayyyy too thin to raise the turn on this board.
this was my first thought too fwiw.
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When he shoves the river after you raise the turn, you are usually losing with a call there.