Merge - $0.10 NL - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 100 BB (VPIP: 15.01, PFR: 0.87, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 810)
UTG: 75.7 BB (VPIP: 65.43, PFR: 30.86, 3Bet Preflop: 9.09, Hands: 81)
UTG+1: 175.4 BB (VPIP: 49.80, PFR: 3.15, 3Bet Preflop: 1.74, Hands: 259)
MP: 41.4 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: -, Hands: 2)
MP+1: 112.4 BB (VPIP: 34.36, PFR: 3.76, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 618)
Hero (CO): 258.6 BB
BTN: 116.4 BB (VPIP: 70.00, PFR: 15.00, 3Bet Preflop: 18.18, Hands: 20)
SB: 15.5 BB (VPIP: 71.43, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 7)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 5 6

UTG raises to 3.5 BB, UTG+1 calls 3.5 BB, fold, MP+1 calls 3.5 BB, Hero calls 3.5 BB, fold, fold, fold

Flop: (15.5 BB, 4 players) A J 4
UTG checks, UTG+1 checks, MP+1 checks, Hero bets 15.5 BB, fold, UTG+1 calls 15.5 BB, fold

Turn: (46.5 BB, 2 players) 3
UTG+1 checks, Hero bets 25.1 BB, UTG+1 raises to 50.2 BB, fold


In the moment, I felt he could have a J, or 99 1010 88, something like that. When I hit the open ender on the turn, it felt like a good spot to continue, but maybe I should have just given up.

This is just unnecessary in general, not just at those stakes imo. You bet into 3 players and the flop smashes their ranges !
Also, in terms of range balancing, you shouldn't hit this flop too often, so your big bet doesn't makes any sense at all. You rep 44 and maybe AJs, JJ and thats all. If you build a bluffing range, it will have very little equity. It makes you vulnerable against their check-calling range, which is huge (weak aces, gutshots, and some slowplayed monsters).

As played, I don't think you have fold equity on this brick. I Check and hope for a miracle.

check flop, fish like to trap and look at his freaking pfr lol. As played check turn, you bet pot and he called, he has an extremely strong range, like AJ+, he is never folding just check and try to hit your straight.

General reg-ish player, if he calls that flop, he doesn't have a just a Jack. Who calls 2nd pair and then stacks off with Jack? I rarely see this on NL2 anymore (I play 10nl FR myself), I don't see people calling 2nd pair for PSB or even for almost any bet at all.

He basically has any set, AJ, AK-wants-to-stack-off, AQ-wants-to-stack-off and basically just calls you so you may bet again and then to stack off on that street.

IMO if you are gonna bluff it's not really good to full pot. In general I'd go with smaller sizing with my value hands if I were you so a smaller bluff fits in with that. Plus it's a dry board so would you really be mashing pot with a good hand? More likely you'd be looking to get action and not make stuff like middle pair fold. Smaller bluffs need to work less % of the time to be profitable too.

Generally full pot bets get a lot of folds so when one gets called it's more likely a case of "see you at the river, kid".

as said UTG, UTG+1 big aces are defo in both there ranges that flop bet is a spew.
What hands do you pot flop and then half pot turn with? Doesnt make much sense, you just check and hope for a free river

Also, how do you fold to the min raise??? We're getting 4:1 on a call, which is not the correct price but we can pretty much get his entire stack if we hit our 8 outs. Assuming they're all clean (they are most of the time) but it's ~25bb to win 100bb immediate odds, plus he has about 100bb behind, giving us ~8:1 in implied odds.