JTs check-raise on low board

I see opponents playing like this quite a lot at NL2&5 - bet folding inconspicuous boards. Personally I can't think of a single hand in my UTG opening range that I bet fold here (I'm not folding my A high combos for example, especially given the bet sizing.) I am by no means a pro but I wouldn't expect your flop raise to have a particularly high success rate against semi-compotent opponents. I think I would flat and evaluate the Turn - as you say, we can improve with possible back doors and I think that the vast majority of opponents at NL5 play really obviously on the turn and x/f without improvement with their non-pair UTG range. If using a HUD then I would simply fold to agro opponents with high Cbet Turn % as we don't have suitable equity.

I would not call an UTG open-raise with JTs without any read that he is a fish

Hey guys,

Imo the preflop call is pretty standard, especially with the slightly deeper stacks.

Flop play is ok on this specific texture. Calling is also fine, both options are available here. The board doesn't hit preflop ranges that hard, but can still be considered a wet texture because there are many overcards that can fall. So both calling and raising are fine.

We should be cautious since opener is UTG but if we are perceived to be raising sets or overpairs here then bluffing is fine. If we would call most of these hands it might make sense to call our bluffs also and continue on good turns (or potentially any turn if villain checks).