AA OOP River pair the board now what?

[ontiltsoon]

Villain is 80/12/1.8 about 80 hands.

Pacific Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.25/$0.5
10 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
Hero: $52
UTG+1: $42.15
UTG+2: $5.75
MP1: $14
MP2: $40.1
MP3: $74.63
CO: $62.85
Button: $53.6
SB: $50.15
BB: $7.5

Pre-flop: (10 players) Hero is UTG with A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
<font color="#cc0000">Hero raises to $2</font>, 4 folds, MP3 calls, 4 folds.

Flop: 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] ($4.75, 2 players)
<font color="#cc0000">Hero bets $4</font>, MP3 calls.

Turn: 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] ($12.75, 2 players)
<font color="#cc0000">Hero bets $8</font>, MP3 calls.

River: K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] ($28.75, 2 players)
Hero:
- Value bets about 18$-20$?
- Block Bets about 10$-14$ and folds to a raise?
- Checks with the intention of calling any bet?

Whats you play?

[Keys Myaths]

Bet/fold should be fine here.

[Javanewt]

This is probably backward thinking, but if we are going to fold to a raise, anyway, and risk at least $10 (although if I were to bet, it would be more), why not just check and call a bet under $20 and fold to a push? What does villain think we have? What do you think villain has? If we check, do you think villain would push without a K or better?

I'm actually interested in what people think about this. Can we check here and call a reasonable bet?

[capodu]

I would check and evaluate his bet, there are three things he could have been going for on the flop, the straigh, the flush, or hit top pair. The only thing that didnt hit was the flush so I would really just check and fold to a big bet or call a small one. Since this is 50NL a 1/3 to 2/5 pot bet might just be as good since a lot of players will go to the river and fold or they play very straight foward which would indicate a flush draw.