if you put yourself in opponents shoes and its checked to you in position on this river and you have AQ with same flop/turn action, checking behind?
Yeah for sure. I would expect to win 99% of the time but there's no value at all in betting.
If there's not value at all in betting then why are we? Is it not better to check behind as we are never getting called and making a note on oppo?
I did wonder if that's what you meant by your question. If your perception of poker is that there is a line in the sand on each board where some hands are worth betting and some aren't, for either player, then you really need to go back to the drawing board. It's a totally different situation for each player here, the question of what to do with AQ on this board facing a c/r, barrel, check really ought to be in a different thread.
For our part, we're betting because he has a decent amount of weak 1 pairs in his range. Depending on whether he knows we know this he might feel that this is the greater part of his range and he will be getting bluffed so will call with these, as Alex said we could end up finding hero calls from JJ/AT here. That's the idea anyway..
Missed this, but thanks.
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