Hi,

Generally speaking, I think that the nut flush is not even a part of his range here. If the flush had hit on the turn it would be a small possibility but no decent opponent is going to barrel that here. That leaves us with a few possibilities that should mostly be dependent on your play history. By the implications of your considerations, you might be betting or raising a flush? If this is the case then that does expand his range to air but I still v much doubt a bet with any flush from our opponent, if he was going to make such a play sensibly, he always does so on the turn anyway. 99 with the nfd is also a possibility but again, unlikely to even raise on the flop, and with the t out there then 99 is a tiny part of his range unless combined with an 8, far more likely he is playing either 89 xx 8txx or 89xx, given the turn check, I think that 89xx is v likely but but check rr tt or t8 with pos is not an unusual play at all, though most opponents have sucked out to spiked overpairs enough to generally feel compelled to bet even tt on the turn. Even 86xx, 8txx or dare I say it 99xx. All accounted I think that this should be a very difficult fold but therefore a very good one.
If you think your opponent pays attention to your play, assume that he has a decent read on you here, bear in mind that blockers do not operate in this situation, does he think that he will fold you off of the hand you have, enough of the time to make it profitable, or do you have enough history and play enough for him to not mind being caught out by the weaker end of you range because he will expect looser calls later on?
In a vacume, you give your opponent a huge amount of credit, or very little at all to expect a shove with anything but a fh house here, if we assume that he has one 90% of the time, and that only two of the combos (split so *0.5 is 1) split the pot (again he is unlikely to raise these) you have his bluff % vs your the whopping 20/1 houses that beat you.

Fold.

I would fold. Looks a lot like either J99 /997 that binked the river or as u mentioned yourself a slowplayed bigger boat. But not a good spot for him to bluff since ur range is uncapped and very strong, even with the small betsizing.

its not a line people bluff with but given your description this is the type of guy I call down here. Fwiw your hand is a better over limp than an iso, and I lean toward jamming flop since there are so many draws. Maybe I would flat that flop raise with 8T (maybe TT but not sure) or a weak 8 that has an fd as well. Tough hand tho...don't fault your fold.

that makes me rethink stuff a little, ty for pointing that out. Still think i jam trips w the A kicker vs described villain.

Hi ibra - Looks to me like J99x play here. Possibly J and 9 of hearts which would make sense with flop raise. I cant see a jam here with worse than a bigger boat. Not sure i bet river after not betting turn. What calls your river bet ... Ace Flush? Lone 8 ? Check call here limits your risk and still entices poor hands to bluff at you.

looking back at this hand, I do a lot of things differently now. I cbet small, like 1/3 and I lean toward a small rr on flop given description of villain. As played man I don't think you have to call, but I still do. He is kinda crazy, your bet looks weak, and I expect him to keep going with boats on the turn to get value. Idk its still really close tho. Only reason I think about calling is cuz he is a nut and you bet small. But you do have enough stronger hands to let this one go.

This is a hand that can do very well in a flop checking range, particularly since you very rarely are going to want to bet 3 streets for value with it. This is primarily due to two reasons: (1) how the board runs out and (2) how villain's range will continually narrow and strengthen as you bet. I'd imagine that you over c-bet when out of position, and have overly weak checking ranges. I can't say that for sure of course, but it'd be something that I'd pay attention to if I was at the table with you and saw you play this hand.

As played, river is a bet/fold.

check flop? noooooo. wtf, then what do you bet? bet turn, why check turn? river is a fold unless you have history.