I'm always checking here. If hero bets and villain has nothing V is always folding. But if hero checks it will always give V a chance to bluff. Then hero fist pumps and ships river.

What you should be asking yourself is:

If I indeed only had AJxx, and villain had the same hand, what would I do here on the river to force him off his hand? What would he do do force me off of my hand?
If I indeed only had AJxx, and villain had an under full, could any action I take here force him to fold? What action would he take here to get value from me?

Now, against a drunk lagtard, my answers would be:
1.) I would check/raise. He would bet/fold.
2.) Betting pot would make him find a call, whereas c/r may get his stack.

Think about who you're playing against, and find your own answers accordingly.

I'm in the check/raise camp against all but weak tight opponents.

Floppineverything

Because I ran into this situation playing 2/4 PLO over the weekend, I'm totally contradicting my earlier post where I said I'm checking every time.

I flopped top set (999) and turned quads. Betting the whole way. It was 6-max and I was heads up and in position. So the flop action went villain checks, I pot flop (it had 2 spades), villain calls. Turns action went check, 1/2 pot bet, villain calls. River was a third spade and I felt villain either had a flush or full house.

After he checked again, I ended up putting out a really weak blocking bet just short of 1/3 of the pot. Villain min raised me and I potted. He tanked and eventually folded but I got a little extra out of him.

I firmly believe that unless villain is super aggro and is known to try and push people off hands then making a weak blocking bet is the way to go, especially if you're first to act. The reason being is 3 things can happen when you bet like this and 2 of them are good (you get called, you get raised, or villain folds). If you just check, you'll never know if villain would have called or raised what appears to be just a weak bet.

Obviously this situation is very dependent on if villain is a LAG, TAG, or loose passive.

AC

^ this situation isn't even close to the same.

Evan...why isn't it close? I think the whole idea is how to get the most value out of a monster hand like quads when u get to the river.

In position vs out, the nuts didn't change on the river in one and did in the other, etc.

Also I'm pretty sure in the hand you mentioned, if you bet big on the river you would have gotten the same amount if not more out of him.

Was the hand vs Peter or scott?

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