Dumbest river bet ever?

[BorisTheSpider]

Villain is standard TAG or thereabouts.

Dumb river bet? Check and let him hang himself?

Poker Stars, $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

Hero (BTN): $32.03 (128.1 bb)
SB: $25.25 (101 bb)
BB: $29.40 (117.6 bb)
UTG: $40.08 (160.3 bb)
MP: $68.92 (275.7 bb)
CO: $6.10 (24.4 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BTN with 5 5
UTG folds, MP raises to $0.75, CO folds, Hero calls $0.75, 2 folds

Flop: ($1.85) J 7 5 (2 players)
MP bets $1.25, Hero raises to $3.50, MP calls $2.25

Turn: ($8.85) 2 (2 players)
MP checks, Hero bets $3.50, MP calls $3.50

River: ($15.85) 7 (2 players)
MP checks, Hero bets $10.50

[griffey24]

Am I missing something? You're IP...

Seems good to me, could potentially go a bit bigger, but I don't hate it if he's liable to perceive it as weak and bluff jam or value own himself and jam.

[BorisTheSpider]

LOL must be tired - yeah, I'm IP. If OOP, do you like checking to let him own himself? I feel like I often bet too much when I have a lock and could better let people bluff at it.

As it is (IP) I guess what you said about letting him perceive it as weak makes sense - I feel like I could potentially go a lot smaller here - if I made it like $6 he can jam for pot and might feel he has fold equity, or he raises a flush for value then feels commited if I rejam.

[abelardx]

Bet the turn bigger and jam river. Has he seen you bluff?

[BorisTheSpider]

Bet the turn bigger and jam river. Has he seen you bluff?

I bet the turn small because if he raises I don't want to have to fold without seeing if the river fills me up. I'll think about whether bigger is good. I didn't want to not bet at all, because otherwise the river pot is too small to get a lot of the money in if I do fill up.

Not sure about jamming river - I'd rather give him a chance to jam the nut flush, or just call with a smaller flush.

[griffey24]

I agree to betting the turn bigger, even 5-6ish.

Again, you're betting small in a spot where it sounds like you are planning on folding to a raise? But your sizing is so small you might induce a bluff raise, which obviously isn't great.

[BorisTheSpider]

I agree to betting the turn bigger, even 5-6ish.

Again, you're betting small in a spot where it sounds like you are planning on folding to a raise? But your sizing is so small you might induce a bluff raise, which obviously isn't great.

Not planning on folding turn to a "reasonable" raise, hence betting small so it's tough for him to raise big enough to blow me off the hand.

I've got to start thinking more about where I might induce bluff raises, since it keeps coming up when I post hands. I guess here is a spot where I can certainly see a bluff raise being induced (because I might do it myself) but I do feel like it basically never happens on rivers at 25NL.

EDIT: Just looked at the flop action again - don't you feel a bluff raise on the turn is unlikely since I look so much like a flush?

Still, will start betting this spot bigger.