4-8 Live: 44 flops set against PFR

[Russ M.]

A-9-4r means rainbow board, no draws.

UTG was horrible and I felt he was probably drawing dead but he never folded so I let him stay in. After his turn 3-bet I was very worried about AA and was just planning on calling any river bet, but then he checked. I felt a value bet was in order and I bet. He raised. I called and he showed AA.

After this, of all things, the DEALER started berating me about betting the river since I didn't cap the turn, so then I got into this semi-debate over value betting the river when SB checked. I thought at the time that my hand was waaaaaaaaaaaay too strong to check behind fearing AA. I didn't think this player had any other two cards that could have beaten me except AA and if he's checking the river, I'm going to value bet and if he has AA, he's going to raise and win.