Don't ever do any of these things. Sorry I know you are well respected
@DrStrange and I'm sure you are lovely to have at any home game but you play wayyy to tight to be profitable in any games that I've ever seen. I would not be giving out advice to fold JJ pre and certainly not to fold it on a Txx flop (or turn to that small turn sizing).
Similarly, and please don't take this the wrong way, it is only meant as critical feedback in order for you to improve, but the way that you have relayed this hand history lets me know that you probably don't have as solid an understanding of the game as you think you have. This is totally fine, we all have a lot to work on when it comes to poker (myself very much included), but knowing your own level of understanding is key to the overall learning process.
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@DrStrange points out, there is a lot of information that is vital to the hand that you leave out here, and moving forward I would encourage you to make sure to include it in any hand histories because without things like stack depth and whether or not the UTG player limp/raised or straddled or raised small UTG, without that kind of information it is hard to really weigh in.
As played... and has relayed in the description above... assuming we are fairly deep stacked, this would be my quick thoughts on the hand:
1. Preflop: ompletely standard. Good raise with JJ (if UTG had limped then I personally prefer a slightly larger raise with JJ, at least $12 but probably closer to $15), and we are *never* folding JJ in position, especially to a player you have labeled as "aggressive" and who has been seen "sucking out" a lot. Just never fold please lol.
2. Flop: This is where stack sizing really matters. There are stack depths (shallower) where we can raise flops here because we just aren't folding and we don't mind getting the AK/AQs of the world to fold. But assuming we are deeper, this is always just a call. Never fold and really we shouldn't be raising very often. We keep our opponents range wide (keeping his bluffs in) and we don't bloat the pot vs the occasional overpairs. So call is totally standard here. Again folding is a huge mistake.
3. Turn: Now stack sizes really come into play because we have a decent amount of money in the middle and when villain bets $65 (which actually feels pretty weak to me, given that there is now $170 in the middle and he should be wanting to go bigger with his overpairs vs hands like AT/KTJTs and of course hands like the one you have JJ, QQ, maybe even 99 that has decent equity in position if he does have the overpair. So my read is that the $65 is weak, and depending on stack sizes (again so important here!), we could easily shove turn and be fine with getting coolered vs the big pairs (hey it happens!). Still, assuming we are deep here, I like a just call on the turn overall. I think that is generally still considered the standard play (we would want to do the same with our strongest hands right? Say we had TT or 76s or 66 or 98s - we want to just call here also right? Leave villains bluffs in and underrep our own hands. We would love for villain to have a hand like AK in that case or even AA/KK/QQ right? We are still in position on the river to get more money in.
4. River: This is now a gross spot because unlike the turn we are no longer beating very many hands. Sure the villain could have been bluffing three streets but given the limp/raise preflop, this does seem like a sigh fold to me most of the time. If the player if truly aggressive enough, I don't think a call is terrible, it because we are getting good odds, but yeah we are barely beating anything so a fold is totally fine.
We don't want to be results oriented right so in this case it does seem like villain had some kind of big ace that got there on the river and knowing that we can beat ourselves up for not doing things differently but we want to stay away from that. Keep focusing on playing every street well with the information that we have available, and listen, at the end of the day poker is about making decisions when we are uncertain about the outcome. That's both part of the fun and part of the difficulty.
Get those stack depths down and understand how that might impact each of your decision points moving forward. Good luck to you!
