Nowhere near money yet.
Blinds: 400/800 (no ante)
Stack: 42K
Position: HJ
Hand: KT

Action folds to hero, who bets 1.8K. Action folds to SB (20K) and BB (50K) who both call.

SB is loose passive reg. BB is very good cash game reg who doesn't play that many tournaments. Hero image is probably solid, slightly TAG.

Flop (5.4K): KJ9

Action checks around.

Turn (5.4K): 2

SB checks, BB bets 5K, Hero calls 5K, SB folds.

River (15.4K): 7

BB bets 15K, Hero ???

1. Not sure I love flop check but I do want to have some top pairs in my checking range.

2. Is river a pretty standard call, even to the big sizing? All the flush draws bricked and we do block QT/T8 specifically. I have shown ability to check top-pair on flop and pick off bluffs previously, which I'm sure this player is aware of.

1. Not sure I love flop check but I do want to have some top pairs in my checking range.

I would cbet that flop , you can check on some boards but not on this one , as alot of draws there

2. Is river a pretty standard call, even to the big sizing? All the flush draws bricked and we do block QT/T8 specifically. I have shown ability to check top-pair on flop and pick off bluffs previously, which I'm sure this player is aware of.

Well liver is most licky a standard call , and you have a blocker , on his BB range he can have some Q10x T8x also Jtx but still an easy call on river.

Call. Your hand is way under repped after that awful flop check. You bet flop to narrow his range. That turn is awesome for us to keep barreling, I’d even consider bet/call on turn.

Rationale for the flop check is this (and it could be wrong):

We likely don't want to bet as often here multi-way, but probably want to bet more.

This is a board that actually connects with SB call/BB defend ranges pretty well. BB can have all of the K9o/J9o/QTo for sure, this particular SB probably calls with those hands too at some frequency, while we don't have those hands as often. BB for sure has buttloads of diamond draws and this player certainly capable of c/r flop/bet huge turn and putting us in really gross spots.

So this isn't a spot where I want to go 1/3 pot with my whole range or anything like that. Thus if I'm going bigger on flop, I really want to have some top pair hands that I'm cool with betting turn if it checks a second time and/or calling turn and probably river with, because I don't want my checks to entirely be marginal hands - especially if BB in particular goes bet turn/bet river. The SB here will play pretty honest and I'm not as concerned about him, he's much less likely to go bet turn/bet river with air or draws or even worse Kx.

Now I may put a couple of monster hands in my checking range to trap, but I'm almost always betting my TPTK and better, so that only leaves KQ and KT as I'm not often opening worse Kx from the HJ. For that reason, checking back KT here, especially when it has some additional backdoor equity, seemed pretty reasonable. I wouldn't always advocate checking back, but I think doing it sometimes can't be that bad.