[marrek]

****disclaimer* I am not a HSNL player****

Doesn't the meat of this hand occur on the turn, specifically when you call his pot size bet? Everything up to and including his turn bet is pretty standard between you 2, no?

And from your description, he expects you to fold on the turn a good percentage of the time.

So, when you call his turn bet, doesn't that say you have a pretty big hand? You'd probably raise 2 pair, or a huge draw somewhere in the hand ( from your description again). Any mediocre hand has to protect itself on the turn in what is turning out to be a big pot on a draw-heavy board. You've pushed top pair/2pair type hands in the past, and you're not drawing in this spot.

So, he knows you have a hand, and overbets the river! I think he's full and is representing a bluff. He could have over-bet the turn (with a 6)expecting you to fold most of the time, but gets more $ in when you do call. Now that he has the best hand, he over-bets again, selling the bluff, and getting even more $$ in.

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