Playing a good draw in position

Game type: 400 NL
Your image: Loose and aggressive
Misc notes: You just won a pretty big pot against this player without a showdown a couple orbits ago
Your hand: J♠T♠

Preflop: You open for $10 from the CO with J♠T♠ and the SB re-raises to $30. BB folds and you call. Flop gives you middle pair and a draw:

3♠K♠J♥

The SB bets the pot.

What to do?

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John B.

Too many cards the SB could have for me to push. Would depend on his table image.

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Mary

Calling is out, I would be pot committed. I would consider going all-in over, but there are too many good hands the small blind could have raised with here. Also, Ax spades, Q 10, the 30 bet could have been trying to pull it down then and now his draw is better than mine. I am surrendering the 40 bucks.

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Kyle

This player could easily be making a play at this with no pair a hand like AQ or a pair of 10s. This feels like a continuation bet just hoping to take it down. He wants to get even since you took down a big pot uncontested earlier. Since you called his pre flop raise and hit a flop that was exactly what you were looking for, i say push here. If you’re behind you have a lot of outs. Make him decide to play his AK for all his chips. If he has AA, he’s definitely calling and you are flipping a coin for the pot. KK is the only hand i fear. I’m not sure he’d lead out so agressively with that hand though. He most likely has AK and there is a decent shot he’s folding. If he calls so be it you could be winning a huge pot.

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Frank

I’d push. I’d only be scared of a set, or AQs, as they would kill a lot of my outs.

By pushing, not only would I be an 11 to 9 favorite, but the fold equity would make it even more worth it.

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ripp

call, see cheap cards. you have lots of outs, but if he has the king your in bad shape. and if you just call here you can still get out of the hand.

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