River play, thin value bet or no?

[goat_beard]

Question just regards river play. Should I be betting for value against smaller PPs or should I check behind here? Not really sure where I am in the hand I think I could easily be ahead here though. If we bet the river how much?

Poker Stars - No Limit Hold'em Cash Game - $0.25/$0.50 Blinds - 5 Players - (LegoPoker HH Converter (http://www.legopoker.com/hh))

SB: $89.05
BB: $18.75
UTG: $41.25
CO: $53.95
Hero (BTN): $49.25

Reads: <font color="blue">New to table, villian is 39/18 over 70 hands. Should I check behind this river or value bet for hands of 55,66,88,99?</font>

Preflop: Hero is dealt J/images/graemlins/club.gif T/images/graemlins/diamond.gif (5 Players)
2 folds, <font color="red">Hero raises to $2.00</font>, <font color="red">SB raises to $4.00</font>, BB folds, Hero calls $2.00

Flop: ($8.50) T/images/graemlins/heart.gif 3/images/graemlins/heart.gif 4/images/graemlins/spade.gif (2 Players)
SB checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($8.50) 2/images/graemlins/diamond.gif (2 Players)
SB checks, <font color="red">Hero bets $6.00</font>, SB calls $6.00

River: ($20.50) 7/images/graemlins/spade.gif (2 Players)
SB checks, <font color="red">Hero ?</font>

[PietM]

Hm, with what hand would villain call a river bet here? There aren't that many smaller pocket pairs that you beat. Villain could have a beter T here too, or a weak two pair hand.

I don't think you can really stand a raise here, and your hand has showdown value. I'd just check behind on the river.

I would bet on this flop though! Two hearts and a straightdraw out there.... Let's try to take the pot down right there.

[Sense1ess]

bet...the...flop

[mattnxtc]

I probably get a bit defensive and check this a lot. We dont have a strong hand and I am not sure what the villian could have that we can reasonably beat.