5/5, $600 effective

The villain, a TAG solid player, is on the BU.

Hero is LoJack with AJo.

Folds to hero, who raises to $20. BU calls.

Flop ($50): J♣️ 7♦️ 2♠️

Hero bets $30, BU calls.

Turn ($110): 3♥️

Hero - ???

I have a few questions here:

1) How should I play on the turn and river against a standard solid/tight player?
2) Would anything change if I iso-raise preflop against the limper and he cold-calls from the BU?

Pre and flop seem fine, as far as your actions and bet sizing go. I'd continue to barrel turn on the 3h, probably for ~2/3 pot.

1) depends on the board and our hand. Our pair of jacks benefits from some protection, but we could also maybe check back to induce a bluff on the river. When we bet turn here, I'm expecting V to mostly fold, unless we got lucky and he has a worse JX. If we check, we need to be careful on the river if he bets a K or Q.

2) in theory, yes. He should be calling with a stronger range than he would need if action just folded to you. HU on the flop, we can c-bet more. But sandwiched between two opponents, I'd be more likely to start out with a check.

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we are OOP, so we can't check back here

Yup. I messed that up. I meant check, not check back. We can check turn to induce V to bluff.

The benefit to checking turn is that it lets V bluff or possibly check back and make a worse pair on the river that will call, especially when our bet-check-bet line looks bluffy. He might look us up with a pair of 7's or even just ace-high.

If he has AKo/AQ and the river comes an A, or AT and the river comes an A or T, it'll be hard for him to fold. The A is such an over-bluffed river card, and the T doesn't improve many hands that bet flop but checked back turn, unless we drawing with 98, which seems unlikely.

The downside is that if he does bluff turn, and we call, we'll have to decide whether we want to donk lead river, which looks strong or fishy, depending on V's read, or continue to play our hand like a bluff catcher by check-calling. If we check, he'll be checking back at least some of the time.

Our hand doesn't seem strong enough to get three streets of value. Whether we barrel or check turn depends on the situation, our reads, etc.

If we pegged V as a TAG, he's probably not calling our flop c-bet without some sort of hand, so I don't mind barrelling, especially if our table image is LAG. I wouldn't expect him to bluff the turn or even bet a weaker hand for value when the board is so dry and disconnected. If we barrel turn, we can potentially get three streets of value on a favorable run-out, so my preference here would be to barrel.

If V was prone to bluffing when checked to, I'd rather check river than turn, especially if he only bluffs once and will check back or fold to future aggression. If V is playing very tight, I'd prefer checking turn and betting river.

How I play the turn is going to be very read dependent.

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