Quote Originally Posted by griffey24
But once you check river, its suddenly very unlikely that you have KT/QJ or Q9 cause you'd definitely bet these card on the river hoping that they don't check through. So all of these hands probably comfortably think they are ahead now.
I think an opponent capable of that level of logic wouldn't just call two streets with a good but highly vulnerable hand. I have a hard time putting together all the actions in this hand into a picture of a player who could be 1. decent, and 2. ahead of me. And like I said before, if he's terrible, it just makes me lean more toward calling. He'll have a head-scratcher sometimes and a bluff the rest of the time.

Anyway, for good or ill, I made the call. (Not insta - I might have thought about it for five seconds.) I was leaning toward thinking he was turning JT or T9 into a bluff - but actually he showed down Ad 8d. If nothing else, I got to make some great notes on him.