turn play with strong draw

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turn play with strong draw

BN: $1325.48
SB: $512.50
BB: $623.43
UTG: $1241.65 (Hero)
HJ: $614.17
CO: $1485.54
Preflop ($7.50) (6 Players)
Hero was dealt J K
Hero raises to $17.50, HJ folds, CO folds, BN calls $17.50, SB folds, BB folds
Flop ($42.50) 9 3 7 (2 Players)
Hero bets $26.38, BN calls $26.38
Turn ($95.26) 9 3 7 8 (2 Players)
Hero checks, BN bets $65, Hero raises to $209.59, BN raises to $480

Hey guys, would like to get some feedback on this hand. Villain is playing 22/17/5 over about 1500 hands which is def. on the tighter side even for zoom games. I don't have any paritcular reads given that it is zoom and you don'T watch most of the hands, but he appeared to be playing somewhat snug.

Note that I open to pot from UTG, so bu's calling range pre should be a bit tighter, most pairs up to QQ, sometimes AA/KK, AKo, AQo, some, but probably not even all suited broadways. (I personally would not call the low pairs is his spot, but I see a bunch of guys, even tighter ones, still flatting 22 vs my UTG pot open). Given this flop range, it actually seems sketchy to me to even cbet, because he may not fold any of the hands mentioned, other then KQs/KJs/QJs/QTs, maybe AQo or pairs 66 and lower. On the other hand our hand has very nice backdoors, so it cant be to bad. + if he really calls the flop this wide, he will be in a lot of trouble on turns.

On the turn is where I think it gets more interesting. It seems like the 8 connects a decent amount with both our ranges, so I am not sure if we should continue to barrel the majority of our valuerange and thus barrel this hand, or rather check most of it, x/r JT and some sets as well as some strong draws like this and some weaker ones, and x/c the rest of our range. Should we just barrel to get him of AK/AQ? Courious to what you guys think.

With KcJc I decided to go for a x/r, thinking that it would look pretty strong and expecting him to bet turn with a lot of hands. Once he 3bets, I am not too sure how to react. On the one hand, if we do not jam this hand then we will hardly ever have semi bluffs in our jamming range, but on the other hand I am not sure if we should have a jaming range at all, given that he should be extremely strong to 3bet turn here, and we have little incentive to jam a hand as strong as 88 or 65s, so that we may be better off calling our continue range?

Exploitatively I thought it unlikely that he was bluffing in the moment, but given that it is a very rare spot I am not too sure at all. Would you expect villain to give credit to my turn raise, or think that he could easily put me on a some kind of weakish bluff?

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