1/2, 8 handed, late night, UK, a table with mostly regs.

Effective size £250

UTG raises to £5,
Hero (HJ), 25yo White-Asian, plays relatively tight calls with KTdd
SB, 20yo Asian, reg, no particular read, seems solid* raises to £16
UTG folds, Hero calls after a brief consideration

* But there was one strange occasion where he played a medium 2-gapper hand OOP 3-way, which surprised me

Flop (Pot ~£30) comes 78T rainbow

SB bets £18, Hero calls

Turn (Pot ~£66) comes K, pairing a black suit

SB checks, Hero bets £40, SB calls

River (Pot ~£146) comes J, no flush

SB checks, Hero??

1/2, 8 handed, late night, UK, a table with mostly regs.

Effective size £250

UTG raises to £5,
Hero (HJ), 25yo White-Asian, plays relatively tight calls with KTdd
SB, 20yo Asian, reg, no particular read. Seems solid* raises to £16
UTG folds, Hero calls after a brief consideration

* But there was one strange occasion where he played a medium 2-gapper hand OOP 3-way, which surprised me

Flop (Pot ~£30) comes 78T rainbow

SB bets £18, Hero calls

Turn (Pot ~£66) comes K, pairing colour

SB checks, Hero bets £40, SB calls

River (Pot ~£146) comes J, no flush

SB checks, Hero??

My initial thinking is that there are not many hands that we beat will be willing to call a bet on river (All one pair, PP, maybe two pairs as well). I feel like a bet of any size from our side would only bring in trouble.

I think you can bet 70 on the river and get value from AK, KQ and AA.

Hand 1: Bet 80 OTR, let him worry about what to call with. He would probably lead if he rivered a strong hand.

Hand 2: Bet 80 OTR, let him worry about what to call with. He would probably lead if he rivered a strong hand.

Thank you for confirming my thoughts that I missed some values here. Suppose a bet was to be made, I would assume that this would become a trivial bet/fold situation?

That would've been a pretty tough call for V to make. More the point here is that once he checks on both run and river, you're almost certainly ahead so may as well bet. Let him make a mistake.

Thank you for your answers - It certainly do seem very fishy of me to be concerned about the limited number of dangerous combos.

Yeah, once V checks turn it's hard to put him on a hand on the turn that beats your two pair, and once he checks river it's hard to put him on 9x. I guess he could have KJ and play this way, be afraid of the straight but still call a bet and beat you. But, more likely he has AK, KQ, or a pocket pair and can call a bet.

Not convinced calling 3bets with kt is long term profitable, but in position it's not terrible....
Easy slam dunk value bet on the river ad played, I'd bet probably 95ish...

Bet/fold 70 on the river.