boat on the river

[ed cooper]

shove river or check raise?
he was weak so his range is very wide, even a low ace i suspect.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 6.5 Tournament, 50/100 Blinds (8 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

UTG+1 (t1535)
MP1 (t3695)
MP2 (t1165)
CO (t1385)
Button (t1485)
SB (t1510)
Hero (BB) (t1395)
UTG (t1330)

Hero's M: 9.30

Preflop: Hero is BB with ,
2 folds, MP1 calls t100, 4 folds, Hero checks

Flop: (t250) , , (2 players)
Hero bets t150, MP1 calls t150

Turn: (t550) (2 players)
Hero bets t330, MP1 calls t330

River: (t1210) (2 players)

[RockyMoose]

I'm a big fan of shoving the nuts on the river. (Well, the near-nuts.)

Harrington goes through the math in one of his books (might be the cash games book), and basically he comes to the conclusion that checking the river with a monster is overrated, and shoving is +EV.

[SMRZ]

I like to add the to full timer usage to the shove.

I make the long pause to indicate concern and confusion about why he just called those last 2 streets.

Then they see me making a desperation shove at the last second.

Don't know if it works, but I like to do it.

[taipan168]

Bet more on the flop and turn, then your flop shove becomes a 1/2 pot bet or something like that. The other reason to bet more is that bottom two pair is a vulnerable hand (since if the board pairs you're basically toast) so you want to play this pretty fast.

Personally I would almost never check in this spot, why give opp an opportunity to check behind when he might call a bet? I see players do this all the time to me with the nuts (assuming I had Jx in this case) and shake my head at the value they lose.

[stardustakos]

I agree with taipan to betting more with bottom two pair. More often than not the board will be paired on turn or river and your bottom two pair is busted.

I also agree that checking the river is not optimal, I tried it many times in the past and 95% of the times opponent checked back. I think on the long run we make more money value betting at least.

[TLR]

The only reason to check is if you put his most likely hand as a flush draw and you have a good reason to believe that he will bluff if you check, without those reads I will bet the river