Re: Should I take a cheap river card or keep betting my draw?
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On the river, after being checked to, with me having represented a big hand all the way, and him representing a draw that just missed at least 50% of the time, I'm always putting in the third barrel.
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We shouldn't bluff with a bluff-catcher. We have the nut no pair. We already beat most of his missed draws, so we're not gaining much equity from trying to bluff out those holdings. Since he's already called 2 decent sized bets earlier, it's doubtful he's going to fold the legitimate hands that beat us. In short, we never get called by a hand that we beat and only rarely fold out a hand that beats us. This isn't a profitable combination for putting money in on the river. Of course, thanks to OP posting his results (OP: Please don't do this, or if you do don't do it in your original post!), we see it probably would have worked here, but the great majority of the time a river bet has 0 or negative equity.
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