Fold made straight on river?

Hand according to plan until river. Then I'm WTF? Villain is 18/16/7.5 over 140 hands. He has 23% steal attempts, so he's sort of aware of position. Can we find a fold here?

Merge - $0.04 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: $5.62
UTG: $5.19
MP: $3.25
Hero (CO): $4.18
BTN: $4.10
SB: $4.02

SB posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.04

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.06) Hero has J:diamond: 9:spade:

UTG raises to $0.14, fold, Hero calls $0.14, fold, fold, fold

Flop: ($0.34, 2 players) 8:heart: T:diamond: Q:club:
UTG bets $0.25, Hero calls $0.25

Turn: ($0.84, 2 players) J:heart:
UTG checks, Hero bets $0.63, UTG calls $0.63

River: ($2.10, 2 players) A:club:
UTG bets $4.17 and is all-in, Hero ??

Looks like an easy fold.

Even though you said the hand went to plan before the river I don't like the plan.

I don't get why we would call an UTG open with J9o unless he's a super fish, just fold pre.

Raise flop for value as it hits his range well (AA-TT/88/AQ/KQ/QJs/KJ/JTs).

Now that we're here fold river as he has a king always. No way he's bluffing/freaking out enough to call.

FOLD..... I would bet more on turn.

fold pre, as played raise flop and then decide whether to call or 4b

river is snap fold vs pretty much anyone

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Originally Posted by daven

fold pre

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It depends on how easily we can take pots away from him.

Given the turn action, I would lol fold this too.

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Originally Posted by Fnord

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Originally Posted by daven

fold pre

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It depends on how easily we can take pots away from him.

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I feel like he plays his cards face up and is extremely easy to float/bluff, especially on wet boards where he tends to check/call or check/fold without a made hand.

Yeah, just don't be like me on a bad day and go crazy with the BN/CO flats.

Don't forget that he's going to tend to have better pre-flop equity, make more nut hands and unless he's a total robot, he's going to adjust if you make it too obvious what you're doing.

still think pre is a fold, even after hearing justification.

don't see why you don't think he can have a K his range is packed with them

and what bikes and playtowin said

Bet flop, check/call turn is ABSURDLY consistent with KJ/KQ/KK and this would be a somewhat reasonable (if cute) line with AK.

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Originally Posted by bikes

don't see why you don't think he can have a K his range is packed with them

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I folded.

I fold pre vs this villains utg range. Don't we pretty much have to flop a straight like always to make calling pre profitable?

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Originally Posted by d0zer

still think pre is a fold, even after hearing justification.

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Yeah, replied before reading the rest of the thread. Still fold.

Thanks, guys, I appreciate all the help.

Question: what's a good calling range in this spot? We have position, and btw BTN was tight enough I didn't expect him to come along. I would 3bet AK, KK+, flat QQ, JJ, TT, AJ+, KQ. What other combos can be flatted here?

Can we call with sc's? Or medium pp's? Anything else?