Quote Originally Posted by Cobra_1878 View Post
OTT the plan was to try and get to a cheap showdown by c/c reasonably sized bets. He then bets out stupidly small, I don't think I could just call as he could just bet the river pretty big assuming I was weaker than what I am. So I decided to raise...

Thoughts?
You're raising because you're worried about giving a villain who's postflop an idea to bluff you big on the river? A bluff you should be happy to call on non-paired-diamond rivers? You're thinking about the wrong things, and you're thinking about those things wrong. When you have a strong hand against weak players the dominating thought should be "value". Bet flop and turn large so we can stack a jack or at least get value from a single diamond.