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Flopping middle set on a somewhat tricky board

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Flopping middle set on a somewhat tricky board

Blinds: $0.25/$0.50 (6 Players) BN: $80.99
SB: $51.07
BB: $0.00
UTG: $43.97 (Hero)
MP: $64.44
CO: $220.68
As you'll see below, I'm not actually UTG: I'm BB.

SB is an interesting player as a villain: I've got more than 200 hands on them and their stats suggest that they're on the tighter side of TAGgy (24/18, 3% 3bet) but during this session I noted a couple of things that put them significantly outside of optimal or textbook-TAG play, imo: I saw them 4betting what was probably too wide a range preflop and I also decided they were showing too little attention to bet sizing (potting too often, basically).
Preflop ($0.75) Hero is UTG with T T 7 8
3 folds, SB raises to $1.50, Hero calls $1.00
Villain's SB RFI is 25% in a small sample (8). I thought about 3betting, but given how active villain had been with 4bets and how this isn't that great of a combo... I just called.
Flop ($3.00) T J 5
SB checks, Hero bets $1.42, SB calls $1.42
Another street where I was tempted to raise. However, I decided that if I strengthened villain's range that I really wasn't going to be in very good shape as often as I'd like, so I just called.
Turn ($5.84) T J 5 4
SB checks, Hero bets $2.76, SB raises to $13.80, Hero calls $11.04
When villain checks here, I take the 4s to be a bit of a blank for them. And even though it's a blank for them, I really only pot the turn on actual blank cards that don't create new draws (or at least don't create as many new draws as this one: spade draw is new and there are new straight draws too). Either way, I decide to bet because I'm looking pretty good all-around: made second nuts, nut GS (with non-nut SD to J; perhaps worth something), and a middling flush draw.

When villain raises... I think in retrospect I should maybe just GII here. I think multiple tables and a short time bank on this particular table made me a little conservative and hasty to just call.

I may be fabricating this after the fact, but I feel like I wanted to be able to let villain bet the river for me or keep my range more ambiguous should they check the river to me.

Because I feel like this is a pretty unlikely JJ line, so I'm not super likely to be value-cutting myself, right? (I haven't checked the math on how much equity a combo draw could have against me here, though. Seems likely I'm at least ahead of all non-JJ, if not way ahead. But then am I getting too many folds on the turn by 3betting compared to getting another bet on the river? Hard to say.)
River ($33.44) T J 5 4 8
SB bets $31.59
Well, villain bets river (putting me all in). Trouble is, my hand is looking very non-nutty all of a sudden. I lose to a decent number of straights, but I also have the 7 to block some of them somewhat.

Hey all,

I didn't mean to post HHs so infrequently after my last one, so I'm glad to have what I think is an interesting one to share.

Frankly, I think I should have taken more time to think through the turn (hurried as I may have been), as I really don't think I had a great plan for different kinds of rivers. Even in retrospect, I don't know that I'm sure what I do on various spades and straightening cards. (Board pair I don't think I'm ever folding.)

I'm eager to see what you think street-by-street, as I think there could be arguments for more than one play on each street. Cheers.

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