I've run into something that I think I do each time I give limit another try, and that is that I think I may be paying off too much.

Hands like this, for example, have been bothering me. How do we approach this river?

No read on villain.

Absolute Poker
Limit Holdem Ring game
Limit: $1/$2
7 players
Converter

Pre-flop: (7 players) Hero is BB with 8 8
3 folds, CO raises, 2 folds, Hero calls.

Flop: 2 5 2 (4.5SB, 2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets, Hero raises, CO calls.

Turn: 7 (4.25BB, 2 players)
Hero bets, CO calls.

River: 4 (6.25BB, 2 players)
Hero...

with the way the villian has played this hand i wouldnt assume he hit the flush...id be more worried about him having an overpair

this hand is super read dependent.

without a read i check/call.

given preflop and his call down, he has missed overs a lot or an occasional flush now

If he has a passive played over pair he's not folding to a bet here
Hopefully he checks those behind here.

I c/c to catch overs bluffing
C/F with strong read of passiveness

If you bet, it's a fairly easy fold to a raise.
Because you should only be betting against players who are loose/passive here (the kind that call more with AQ than bet)
And given his pf raise, I'd tend to think he can bluff at the river sometimes. I almost never lead here