interesting hand. i dont get it

Im fairly sure hes for value.

yeah i was confused because his hand seems too strong to turn into a bluff and i don't think flop check caps your range. but shoving for value he still needs to think you'll make a herocall some significant % of the time, just don't get why that is. history i guess?

well flop check does cap my range, maybe not 100% but def way less likely to have 9T or a set anymore, no recent history but like I said Im very unlikely to have him beat and another thing is that he himself is def capped after flop check back so he cant rep the nuts, so I can hero.

T9 is more likely to bet flop but so is overpairs/8x/probably 7x/etc. right?

i guess my assumption was that if you can have enough good 1pair hands to potentially herocall river (i assume you're generally not herocalling with worse than 8x or maybe good 7x since he can turn pairs into bluffs), he has to expect you to have a flop c/r range that includes those 1pair hands some of the time. and if you can c/r those, then you could c/r stuff like T9 or a set as well.

i don't understand how he views your range on river. like, checking flop might make nut hands less likely for you, but wouldn't it do the same for many of the hands he could hope to get value from? idk, where am i off here?

I dont think Im that balanced there but even if I will go for C/R with 9T or a set for some reason, there is still a lot more combos of overpairs and 8x than that.

aight thanks for explaining