[KingOtter]

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(grunching) I have the same inclinations as you (see my post on middle pair kings), but I try to follow Ed Miller's advice on page 122 of SSH:

"Play these hands under one of two circumstances:
1. No one has shown much strength, so you might have the best hand
2. The pot is large, and you are drawing to a probable winner"

With the villian flop best, criteria 1 was violated. For criteria 2, you only had a backdoor straight and the pot was small, so that is violated as well.

I would have given up on the flop. However, if you did call, the turn bet is certainly incorrect.

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Careful about context here, though.

The beginning of that chapter says 'For each example assume you are in a multi-way pot' (p.114) with a footnote that specifically says Heads-up and short-handed are different.

This is not a multiway pot. Heads-up, with a blind in the hand there is no reason to assume he has a Jack immediately, and depending on his aggression factor may be trying to push a possible over-call hand off.

When he calls the turn, you know that's not the case. He made some part of it on the flop, and since he bet out I'd bet it was the J.

But you'll see a 9, or even a 5 call this down just in case they think you have AK, or AQ.

KO