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Preflop: Hero is BB with [5d], [Ah].
5 folds, Hero calls.

Flop: (4.40 SB) [Kc], [Ac], [9s] (2 players)
Hero bets, CO calls.

Turn: (3.20 BB) [Qd] (2 players)
Hero bets, CO calls.

River: (5.20 BB) [8c] (2 players)
Hero checks, CO checks.

Final Pot: 5.20 BB

Not sure what to display for reads, but he has a 13VPIP through 251 hands. Are you guys betting this river?

If you plan to call, you should go ahead and bet.

I think you would probably need to know his AF. If it's high, i check/call. If it's low, i bet/fold. Not sure if that stat is reliable after 250 hands...

I'm betting this river all day long.

And twice on Sundays.

Except on Mondays

You guys actually like to donk bet out of the blinds in this spot? I mean if the guy's on a steal, he is going to fold. If he has an Ace with a better kicker, your playing right into his hands. You also allow players with PP's to fold their hands without even putting in a continuation bet. Betting the flop is a good way to win the minimum with the best hand and lose the maximum when you have the worst.

If he has a stronger ace, he will probably just call our raise and then raise us when we bet the turn.

If he has nothing, our bet looks suspicious, and he'll probably call anyway or raise with a weaker hand.

Personally, I don't think it's a good habit to get into. What do you do when he raises the turn? Give it up? You allow yourself to get outplayed if your willing to fold. If you call down, your losing way more bets than you need to be. Personally I think a fold is out of the question, why are you defending your blind if your going to fold when you flop top pair? Your hand is pretty good headup when you flop the best pair possible even if you have a garbage kicker.

To me it's an easy call down situation, I wouldn't get aggressive because your either way ahead or way behind. I want to win the maximum when he has a weaker pair and I want to lose the minimum when he has me beat in this situation, but this hand is getting shown down unless the board gets really ugly for my hand.

[quote]To me it's an easy call down situation, I wouldn't get aggressive because your either way ahead or way behind.[/quote]

I don't think this is a wa/wb. We are likely ahead, and our opponent likely connected with this flop.

I don't mind the donk, because a lot of opponents will naturally just raise here with any piece of this flop since they raised pf.

It's not the way I'd play the hand, but it's not nearly as bad as you're making it out to be.

I'll sometimes do this just to vary my play a bit. You're not always checking to the PF raiser HU are you?[/quote]

We never said anything about the flop bet. He asked about the river. Given the way he played it, I'm betting the river. It's not difficult to understand.

Your not checking to the pre-flop raiser every time, but you should be checking when cards on the flop that a raiser would try to at least represent hit.

I think it's a bad habit to be getting into doing this personally as better players will pick up on it fairly easily. Your also losing out on bets that the CO would put in as a bluff attempt if you bet and allow them to fold when they brick.

If you do it whenever you hit a strong hand, yes.