Small Stakes NLH 1-2 $300 Cap - What did villain have?

Question

This is a newly formed $300 max $1-$2 No-Limit 10 man live game. I am in the small blind with:

8♥ 7♥

It goes fold, fold, limp, limp, raise to $12(villain), call, call, I call, $11, fold, and first to limpers fold.

So there are 5 players with $62 in pot.

Flop comes:

A♥ 2♥ 9♥

I check to the preflop raiser with the intent to checkraise get clarity on the strength of my flush hoping to get all folds. He bets $50 (this is a larger size bet for this table), everyone folds to me. I checkraised to get a true feeling of where I am in this pot, I min raise to $100. I started the hand with $350 and villain had roughly $280. The villain hesitated and calls only. The turn cards is:

A♥ 2♥ 9♥ A♠

I jam the pot all-in; the villain has $160+ left. He thinks for about a half of minute and calls. I table my made flush, and he holds his cards, the river came with what I thought was the worst possible cards for what I had put the villain on. It was the:

A♥ 2♥ 9♥ A♠ A♣

The whole table including myself groan. I say verbally under my breath, "That was a bad card." The villain stares then says, "You are good." and mucks his hand.

I took me a bit but I did finally put him on one type of hand.

What do you think he had?

Answer 1

I suspect he had KH-QX or KH-JX or KH-TX.

I don't think it makes much sense for him to raise preflop with 3H 4H or 5H 6H. And, he would play KH-8X or less raising preflop.

And, since he didn't win the had, he didn't pair the board nor have a pocket pair.

Answer 2

I agree with you, I think a high heart is most likely. Kh-x maybe even Qh-x, depending on how maniacal he is he could have something like 3h4h, 3h5h, or 4h5h, as well, although these are not the type of hands people normally raise with.

Answer 3

My first thought is, he misread his hand.

There is no hand which V can correctly call your turn push that doesn't win on the river.

if V had lower flush (3-6h), to me this is a standard flop jam over your reraise. Theres really no good way to play a bluff (low suited connector) that has connected so well with the flop.

For KhXx, QhXx, there aren't that many combinations i would open (KQo, KJo, QJo), and looking at a turn push, i have no equity to call, as i may not even have 9 outs (sets + made boats, plus higher flush for QhXx).

My impression is Villain had high pocket with a heart, figured he had 9 outs plus 2 if he made his set, and forgot about the third Ace giving him the boat.