It's a 5 handed table on pokerroom.com, horrible players. Do you bet this river or just check behind. I am "hatemenow35", I have A Q

Texas Hold'em $1-$2 (real money), #1,243,788,260
Table Grand Forks, 7 Sep 2005 1:06 PM ET
Seat 2: hatemenow35 ($36.20 in chips)
Seat 5: Majical ($56.50 in chips)
Seat 6: mogens m ($51.05 in chips)
Seat 9: jetsonmom ($127 in chips)
Seat 10: nitoja5 ($15 in chips)
ANTES/BLINDS
mogens m posts blind ($0.50), jetsonmom posts blind ($1).

PRE-FLOP
nitoja5 calls $1, hatemenow35 bets $2, Majical folds, mogens m calls $1.50, jetsonmom calls $1, nitoja5 calls $1.

FLOP A 8 5
mogens m checks, jetsonmom checks, nitoja5 checks, hatemenow35 bets $1, mogens m calls $1, jetsonmom calls $1, nitoja5 calls $1.

TURN 9
mogens m checks, jetsonmom checks, nitoja5 checks, hatemenow35 bets $2, mogens m calls $2, jetsonmom folds, nitoja5 calls $2.

RIVER 5
mogens m checks, nitoja5 checks, hatemenow35 bets $2, mogens m calls $2, nitoja5 calls $2.

Good play. Gotta value bet that river.

looks fine

Seems like a pretty standard bet/call situation to me.

I think that's solid.

A spade/club draw with a 5 would be calling down...and probably bet/raise here. Other than that, you are extracting value much more often than you are beat. - especially since no one bet the river. Nothing sucks more than getting raised here; but I call it.

if I may add...

When you are known to value bet rivers, it sometimes sets you up for bluff raise on the river. Then when you bet/fold...more bluff raises. Or when you call it, then the next time instead of raising the turn, they c/r the river. Anyway, that's what makes the river so tough, for me, at least. Wanting to extract value, but HATING the decision when raised.

Ever have one of those nights when the whole table seems sick of your raising Pre-flop (maybe you've had a good run and are pfr=18%); and they will call with junk...cool!,...but then catch and wait until the river to raise. It's a good play against someone who's going to value bet all the time with TP, I guess. Makes me mad.

qft

You'd have to be insane to not bet this river.

I haven't played limit for about 10 months and just getting back into it, so I was just checking.