So it’s a little later than promised, but I’m a man of my word…so here’s a Riceman hand to dissect please…

I can’t seem still to get the HH insert to work, maybe it won’t accept HH’s from HoldemResources…I don’t know, so forgive the copy and paste:

27-180 man $15 Turbo, Final Table, 4 left of 60 odd players…$277 to the winner, tbh I can’t recall the exact payouts of 2nd, 3rd, 4th. Standard stuff.

PokerStars Hand #175446837734: Tournament #2036602222, $13.77+$1.23 USD Hold’em No Limit – Level XIV (800/1600) – 2017/09/10 9:13:41 WET [2017/09/10 4:13:41 ET]
Table ‘2036602222 5’ 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 2:HERO(43854 in chips)
Seat 3: 362017 (12664 in chips)
Seat 6: Simon (21928 in chips)
Seat 9: CarmeloSwish (29554 in chips)
HERO: posts the ante 150
362017: posts the ante 150
Simon: posts the ante 150
CarmeloSwish: posts the ante 150
CarmeloSwish: posts small blind 800
HERO: posts big blind 1600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to HERO [4s Jh]
362017: folds
Simon: folds
CarmeloSwish: calls 800
HERO: checks
*** FLOP *** [4c 8d 4d]
CarmeloSwish: checks
HERO: bets 1600
CarmeloSwish: calls 1600
*** TURN *** [4c 8d 4d] [3c]
CarmeloSwish: checks
HERO: bets 3200
CarmeloSwish: calls 3200
*** RIVER *** [4c 8d 4d 3c] [9c]
CarmeloSwish: checks
HERO: bets 4800
CarmeloSwish: raises 9932 to 14732
HERO: calls 9932

Obviously, I nearly had a happy ending in my pants when I checked back the SB’s limp and 4c 8d 4d hit with my Jh 4s holding. I didn’t think V had very much of anything so I decided to bet out small, hoping he had an 8 or a diamond draw, but expecting him to fold. I squealed with delight when he called my flop bet…(oh the freedoms of playing online!). I now put him firmly on a probable 8, possible diamond draw, very almost super-unlikely pocket pair…I’d imagine he’d have raised most of them BvB from SB. Regarding how he perceives my range…air/bluff…wary I might have an 8…super-unlikely I hold a 4.

So the 3c is largely an irrelevance WRT his range, I think. He obviously has some interest because he called my flop bet; so I bet out again smallish, to get value from his 8 or charge his draw. When he calls I am literally having spasms of ecstasy in my chair, although this might be the meds. The river “bricks off” to my thinking with 9c…whatever interest he had in the hand revolved around the 8 or the flush draw. He checks, I bet again…expecting a tentative call with an 8, or also a possible shove with a missed diamond draw vs a board which I am unlikely to have much of. I’d have snap called.

But what he does next stops me in my tracks…he 3bets non all-in. Now it looks as though he’s trying to induce me to put him all-in. I start to get a fever…what the hell is he doing this with? A sinking feeling in my stomach. What does he have that I beat? A missed diamond draw would have shoved or folded. A full house? Doesn’t make sense as he’d have raised 88 pre. There’s a super-outside chance he has clubs and rivered a club flush. The only hand which he might be raising here is a 9, but that doesn’t make sense because I was aggressive throughout the hand and a 9 is mediocre here at best.

I call, expecting to lose, but not truly comprehending how it’s possible.

Thoughts please?