Re: The infamous river bluff
You seem to have a pretty good read on this guy - how does he play his draws? It's a pretty draw-heavy flop and I would guess that a guy like this would CR you here with a flush or straight draw, but I dunno.
As is, how do you know that he isn't calling down with some piece of the board? It seems like players that like to go aggro with nothing will usually do it on the cheap streets. If he's got something like 78 and wants to just call down, your turn check-through may be enough to get him to value-bet the river, and I think he's going to have a hard time not calling for one more when the board is so non-threatening. If he's a thinking player, he'll realize that you wouldn't check through the turn on such a juicy board if you had a real hand, and that your PF raise makes you very unlikely to have picked up anything on the river.
So I'm guess I'm saying that maybe this isn't the right spot. I think this move would be better if he had c/red the flop and bet the turn and river (consistent with your read that he has nothing).
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