Re: Pocket TT
No one that you want to fold is folding for 1 bet on the turn after that flop action. The most likely holdings for your opponents are a weak jack (never folding), a flush draw (which you are now behind), a straight draw (which may have just come in and which is never folding), or a lower pocket pair (drawing to 2 outs).
You're behind here a lot, so you can't bet for value. Since no one that you want to fold is going to fold, you can't bet to protect your hand. So you should check and see the river. This has the happy side-effect of dodging a check/raise (to which you would have to fold!) from a draw that just got there.
Once you "show weakness" by checking, some weaker hands might bet for you, or a stronger hand might bet. Either way, it costs you the same 1 BB to call the river as it would to bet the turn, plus you get to see a showdown, plus you win an extra bet from a lower PP that would have folded the turn but has now bet out because you are "weak".
Does that help?
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