The Villain from the last hand I posted sent me this hand where he faces an interesting river spot.

2/5 Live 500 eff

Hero RFI to 15$ UTG 1
Hero’s range:55+, A8s+, A5s-A4s, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, T9s, 98s, 87s, 76s, AJo+, KQo

SB calls

SB is a rec player who is capable of bluffing and is unlikely to go for thin value. Not very much hand history with SB. Late 40s Asian Male.

Flop: T73ssc (35$)

Sb x
Hero bets 25$
SB calls

Turn Td(85$)
Sb x
Hero x

River 6s(85$)
Sb leads for 80$
Hero?

Questions:

What do we put in our calling range on this river?

If you were in SBs spot what bluffs would you have?

If hero decided to bet 3/4Pot on the turn and SB calls and then donks pot OTR what does our calling range look like?

Thanks for all feedback!

Tell him to fold pre with AJo, KQo, 76s, 55. Also 3x is really low UTG+1 in live poker if so much of your range is big card one pair hands.

Call with Tx+ if you have a K-Js to block combos of flushes. If you have the As, you block his easiest/likely bluff combos so you will want to get away. Without blockers this is a value bet with a flush or better.

As SB, I would have bluffs with the As, especially with the 8 or 9 to block straights or a 7 to block boats, although I probably would have folded by now with A8/A9. The ideal bluff would be As7x.

If you had bet flop and turn and villain donks river, his bluffs will only be with the As and river bluffs are rare, especially when you take a b/b line. That would be a clear fold with anything worse than top flush. Even then, TT and 77 are plausible boats and 98ss is in play. Having the A high flush might even be worse, since it blocks his bluff combos.

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Given that I check the turn with a ten or fh 0% of the time, I guess I'm calling with a straight or flush to beat a ten.

I would not be bluffing much as SB because almost anything I called the flop with got there. That makes it a good bluff spot, sure. But what am I arriving here with? 99. So then I'm trying to bluff someone off an overpair? Might be more profitable to let them stab.

So I guess I'd bluff whenever I had nothing, but that wouldn't be very often.

I wouldn't be in SB's spot since I usually don't call out of the SB. I would also have zero bluffs after I call this flop oop and this board runs out.

To determine a calling range, I'd need to know more about SB. I definitely have all the nut flush combos in my range by the river (never bet turn with them). I'm at least considering call with 8s8x, 9s9x, QsQx, KsKx, AsAx.

Preflop range is too loose, but I doubt he's going to listen to some guys on 2+2 saying some of his opens are terrible/-EV.

OTF we really shouldnt be betting that many hands in the first place. I would not c-bet 88-99 here with a spade, that goes into checking range.

OTT probably should be betting JJ+ w/o spade for 2/3 pot, obv Tx as well and boats/flushes.

OTR I dont arrive there with that many combos anyway, but if I was looking to bluff-catch it's at minimum JJ+ with a spade. Although on this exact runout I could probably fold everything and be ok with it. he has so much value, 98 got there, all flushes got there, Tx got there. So I don't really see him bluffing much on this river unless he's spazzing with 44/55/SDV turned into bluff.