No Limit Holdem Tournament • 2 Players

I'll preface this by saying that you're much too short stacked (effective stacks) to worry about top pair being drawn out on or being dominated, etc. unless you have incredibly specific reads on your opponent.

The major thing that I notice is that you say he is checking down quite a bit in these limped pots.  He's also raising a tight (presumably strong?) range of hands preflop and limping the rest.  This means he either misses this flop a lot, or flops a draw/weak pair.  That means he's rarely betting when you check, given your reads.

All of this, to me, suggests you should lead this flop for value.  Get value from the weaker pairs and draws while you still can, build a pot against a player that is not betting himself, he won't often do it for you.

Save the check raising for players that often bet when you check, to gain value from their fold equity, build a bigger pot from their weaker hands and to generally frustrate them.

I can't think of a player I've played in the last year that I would check call this flop against, other than to catch a high frequency of bluffs from them on latter streets.  Those bluffy types are much more common than a guy that you're check calling K9 against at these stacks to control the size of the pot.  A guy that is that tight and has a flop bet range that weighted towards strong hands is probably somebody you would check fold against, or check call and check fold the turn against.  That's so uncommon it's probably not worth thinking about too hard.  The main thing in this hand is to focus on what your opponent does, and how you can best exploit that.  He doesn't bet a lot, he'll probably give you some value with weaker hands, lead the flop.