1/2- 300 max. Been a pretty nitty SAT morning table populated mostly with older players. I've been wanting to table change for the past hour or so, but we've been shorthanded until recently so I couldn't get a table change.

Hero (SB) , 370 - Mid 30s WG. Has been the most aggressive player at table, but not LAGgy. Just a nitty table. I'm the only one that has any 3! frequency whatsoever. Have shown mostly quality hands at showdown, but have been run down a couple times. Overall image should be pretty clean though.

V1 (UTG) , ~380 - Has only been at the table a couple orbits. Chipped up a bit, and has opened several hands already. Quickly becoming the most active player at the table. Seems like a somewhat competent player. Late 30s, early 40s WG.

V2 (CO), ~500 - Has been at the table the entire time hero has been there. Early 30s WG, wearing a construction company T-shirt. Seems like he's just there to play some weekend Poker. Sticky with draws without getting proper odds, and can be a bit sticky with any piece of the board. He at least has some aggression in him, but not a good player even by LOL 1-2 standards.

OTTH: V1 opens UTG to $8, 2 callers, V2 calls, BTN calls, and hero looks down at AJ . A lot of times I'll just fold this from the SB in a multi-way raised pot, but these small $7-$8 opens have proven to be weaker hands almost always at this table. I've also been trying to widen my 3!/squeeze range, and I thought this hand was a good candidate. Plus being a nittier table with older players, the table has been over-folding to aggression. Because of this I think even AJoff is ahead of most players' ranges here, but I obviously don't want to call and play it OOP multiway without the initiative.

Hero squeezes to $42 (thoughts on sizing?). In a vacuum I think $50-$55 is a better sizing, but given weak ranges for the table and their propensity to over-fold, I thought I could get away with going a hair smaller. V1 calls, V2 calls, everyone else folds.

Flop 3 ways - $145 (after rake). J43

So I get about the best flop I could hope for here. Hero bets $75. I decided to bet smaller here because I think it's a pretty dry flop, and I think the sizing leaves the door open for a B/F in certain instances. An OP/set isn't folding no matter my sizing, and other than that a flush draw is about the only way Vs could connect with flop (I do NOT hold a club). I also thought that V2 might get sticky with a middle PP to smaller bet. V1 tanks then asks me how much I have behind, then makes the call. V2 folds. After asking what I had behind, then flatting, I think V1 is heavily weighted towards flush draws here, and I don't block any club combos.

Turn, HU - $295: J

So I have a bit under a PSB left with ~$250. Jam seems pretty standard here, but what really can I get called by now? Drawing to a flush (possibly with 1-2 overs) looks much less appealing now the board has paired and just one card to come. I'm curious if anyone would take a line other than jam here? I thought about fancy-play-syndrome and betting ~$100 and then check non-club rivers and give V a chance to bluff a missed FD, but ultimately I thought better of it and jammed. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Yeah i play this mostly the same, dont mind flatting pre either but vs this table i def 3betting a lot. Dont think we need to jam. Just bet another 75.

If V1 is aggressive I might check here. Sort of looks like I have AK and am giving up. If villain is decent and knows I am too, it complicates things because overpairs are going to get used as bluffcatchers here, so putting jacks in there as well might give us too big a check range. I think generally at LLSNL though people expect to see stuff like AA just jam here, in spite of the fact that nothing can call.

Shove turn.

Let's make our hand look like a bluff.

probably not squeezing against utg, $50 pre would be better

check if you're trying to protect yourself

jam if you think hes calling it off with qq/tt/99

I like smaller bet here. Keeps fd in the hand but makes him pay something. If you jam he just has to fold unless he has AA specifically. Also might be seen as weakness and lead him into a bluff. Going 100 seems good.

Thanks guys. Yeah I definitely felt like I missed value by jamming turn (V tanked for about 30sec then folded to my jam), but turning trips kind of left me as a deer in the headlights. I had a plan for the rest of the hand after my flop bet was called, as I planned to jam all non K/Q/club turns.

Turning trips obviously isn't going to happen very often, so I really didn't have a solid plan for how I'd play the turn in the event that it actually happened. Plus it's one thing to tank when you're facing action, but tanking when I'm first to act for some reason made me feel like I was giving off a tell. Not that I actually was, that's just what was going through my head at the time. After deliberating on whether I wanted to bet small on turn and then give him a chance to bluff river, it felt like I was taking a long time to act so I basically thought "LOLZ, me has trips and less than a PSB left....I'm all in".

If he's going to bluff missed flush draw on the river, couldn't he bet turn like that? Maybe I check too much and want to check/raise more though.

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