your line please

[furfur]

$1000+50 live. 200 entrants. 100 Remain. Blinds 100-200. Hero with 10K and villain with 9K. New to table. Button open limps. Hero completes in SB w/ k,2 and BB checks. Flop K,9,6r. checked around. Turn Q. Hero bets 400. BB calls and button folds. River J. Your move?

[thebawler]

c/f

[zizazziza]

i lead flop, c/f river

[furfur]

So my reasoning was as follows. I don't like to bet out on that flop b/c i'm out of position and i want to keep the pot small. Villain would likely have bet out a better king on flop. He likely would have reraised any raggedy two pair on turn but his call indicates that he hit some of the board. The river puts obviouss straight on board. According to above reasoning, I figured he had a queen and would probably pay me off since I checked flop and most people would have bet it with a king. Even if he rivered 2 pair, he likely wouldn't raise me given the scary board. So I bet 1K. Too thin a value bet?

[zizazziza]

I would rather c/c then have to b/f here. You are not getting called by any hands that are worse than you here.

[furfur]

what hand that we beat is he betting here? he has position. very likely he'll happily check behind a lot of hands that we beat that he may call a modest bet with

[hagbard celine]

IMO b/f > c/f

I'm always surprised what sort of garbage middle pairs people think are good because the flop was checked

[Mench]

fold pre, bet flop, check/fold river