1/1 London, relatively deep game usually playing with a £3 straddle. V is an older white gentleman, not played with him long - is about to transfer a table and has just coolered someone to win a large pot. Hero has tight image, starts hand with around £310. V covers.
Limped to hero in CO who has JThh. I make it £8, V calls in BB.
Flop K53hhh. V checks, hero bets £10.
I thought about checking here but I think by betting I look weaker and can possibly get paid on later streets if V is a non-believer. Also checking here gives a free card to Qhx/Ahx/ etc - but realistically wouldn't they call flop anyway?
Moving on, V calls flop.
Turn 3d. V checks, I check behind.
I am checking behind again here to try and show weakness, perhaps to induce a bluff from V on river. Feel like I made a mistake with this though...
River 6c. V now decides to lead for £40, hero snaps.
There was nothing here in V's range that given the way he had played I could really fold to, or so I thought at the time. Of course there is the bigger Ax flush, but with two blockers to that I wasn't massively concerned with it, especially with his flop/turn checks. I doubt he sticks around with a random 3, especially with his call OOP pre flop. Having thought about it since though - what does he do this with on the river that we beat?
Definitely call river. Not sure raising accomplishes much, but if you did indeed bet turn to induce a river bluff because you think he's bluffing, you should raise river. Fine if he folds -- never show.
