2/4: buy the river

[Alexos]

random pairs, delayed floats etc imo. I actually checked back with Q9cc in this hand with a plan to bet the river. When he bet I thougt I'll just go for the mindfuck. Felt like my play was maginal or even bad as he might not buy KJ.

Your perceived check-back range will be pretty weak though on turn, repping like 8x or midpair, and on most rivers that range won't really be strong enough to rep a value bet. That's why I prefer to bet it, then you can barrel a ton of rivers too.

Your play is mindfuck indeed, it's one of those unbalanced spots that (i think) get you a lot of folds even though you rep so little.

[pocketfours]

Your perceived check-back range will be pretty weak though on turn, repping like 8x or midpair, and on most rivers that range won't really be strong enough to rep a value bet. That's why I prefer to bet it, then you can barrel a ton of rivers too.

Don't see any compelling reason to bet turn with Jx as villain clearly doesn't have diamonds or T9. Is it common to c/c turn with TT/99/8x, seems pretty bad to me. Besides a river bluff can be significantly smaller to be in line with a weak and thin bet, it's not very common to be checkraised imo. By betting the turn you might be exploited by a wide c/r range, although it's not a very common strategy admittedly.