Hey Walnuts87

Everything up to the river is obviously standard and fine. On the river we will be facing a value range of AA, AK, QQ, KK, all with reduced frequencies of course. The HJ might potentially be able to bet this large with JTs, however I doubt the straights do a lot of checking on the turn, so we can assume he has so few of those they become irrelevant. We basically want to pick out hands out of our checking region that best block the AKQ and unblock his JJ,TT and maybe 99 region which he will be using as bluffs. We will have some AK and a bunch of AQ which make the most obvious calls. I am guessing we mostly just end up check-raising flop and leading river with our KQ combos, so we can ignore those for now. Out of our remaining hands (which will be mostly Ax) I believe the way this will work is the lower our kicker, the higher EV our call becomes (again because JT9 will block his bluffs), so I think the A4s will make one of our best bluff catchers. We might be able to finds folds with some AJ and AT depending on how wide we defend our underpairs both preflop and on the flop.

Cheers.

Thanks for the detailed response. I ended up, after a long tank, mucking. I added in KQ to his value range and felt the amount of value he had was just a little too much. Looking back on it, I get your point completely, we had a very nice bluff catcher. I guess it was just a close spot (imo) that could have gone either way. Is a fold terrible or just not optimal?