Defending with J2s

I'd say you played it perfectly. But if you go just one notch looser in calling preflop, or attacking and following through all the way postflop, then you'll cross the thin red line.

Well played!

Hi!

Preflop is marginal but ok.
Flop I dont like to c/r,especially vs competent player. Problem is that your c/c range is quite weak then and means that he can easily just double or even triple barrel and win the pot as your range will mostly include overs,gutshots,Ahigh. If you include some pairs then you make that range slightly stronger and harder to play against. Another thing is that on this board you can expect b/c F,raise Turn from him quite often and since there are many availible draws your decition wont be an easy one.

My c/r here would be:
-value part: 5x+ (5x,7x,66+,22) - 28,5%
-bluffs: lower FDs(up to Qx),OESDs(34s,46,68),gutshots(63,89,84,96) - 7%

c/c:
Ax,Kx,2x,some Qx(QJ,QT,Q9,Q8) and like JT,J9 -31%

c/f:
rest which is basically trash -cca 15%

that is just quick attemp at balanced strat :)certainly not perfect. Percents are meant as how many hands out of all possible

Thanks for the help.

@Dawnfall26 thanks for the numbers, I'll try to think of my HU hands more in that way, but am just begining with that. Your math is not accounting for 18.5% of the hands.

With regards to a raise from villain on the turn, I think I can let go when he does raise, can't I? It will save me a sb to c/calling down. Also he will fold quite a bit of hands(Kx Qx JT etc. ) on my turn bet.

Dawnfall is right. I forgot about balance all together. But according to the PS charts, you are ahead on the flop (56%, less if he is looser, but still ahead) and on the turn you have 53% if he floats 100%. On the river you'd might have (as played) a bet-fold since some A high might call that wouldn't bet if you check. (A bet would be horrible in position because you are no longer a favorite.)

I still say the play isn't bad (degraded from perfect though), but again, Dawnfall is right because you'd be exploitable in the long run and wouldn't get paid for your value hands and get blown off the best hand too often versus good opponents.

On the other hand, if you play 100% exploitatively yourself and enjoy doing so, the play might be the play with the highest EV depending on where in the leveling war you are at , at the moment, with your opponent.