[Steven]

I rather put him as having 2 pairs or Jack pair. As you have said, he has stuck couple hundreds and raised a lot, we should assume he will be playing most of his hands and bluff a lot.
While HJ limps in PF, I would put him as a middle range hand(Ace low, high low cards, possibly suited connectors).
Let’s start with the flop, he check-raise you, what he can rep is a straight draw(which usually unlikely to reraise but he may be tilt), or any pair. The turn’s check is really good sign to know that you are leading and I would recommend you to bet him to avoid his straight draw(with >half pot size bet). While you check back, he might think that you are having weaker hands and the river give him the chance to rep the straight draw. He might also hit the river with two pairs with J9s J7s or even raising you half pot with a pair(only with his image).

[Steven]

Such a late reply, haha, I am just writing to train and learn from hand discussion only 🙂
I personally love to play with 9T, JT as such hand is powerful in some scenarios that beat top pair with straights. Therefore, I personally prefer a raise (probably 40, sort of blocking BB to have free flop).
Moving to the turn, pretty standard to check, as button raises, if you are an aggressive player, you may reraise him to deny his equity on any flush draw, also narrowing his range as Ace high or something like that. While in this spot, I like your check call to hide the hand strength.
The turn is not a bad one, since there are not much hand that could beat you in this spot and pretty likely not OTR, your value bet size is very good.
The river is also fair, it gets rid of any flush draw but straight draw, the only hand you lose are JT, 66, 89 and 45, while winning any Ace high or flush draws, it’s alright to value bet and call the reraise.

• This reply was modified 7 years ago by Steven.

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