BTN: Older guy but not your typical tight OMC. Plays a tight range but willing to take stabs postflop.

I raise to 10 EP w/ TT, CO, BTN, BB call

Flop (40) Q86

I check, checks around.

Turn (40) 6

I bet 20, CO folds, BTN calls, BB folds.

I'm ranging V on made flushes, and Ax,Kx one spade hands. Unlikely Qx, and somewhat unlikely 6x based on tight preflop range and not raising turn.

River (80) 4

Given that the most likely range of hands I am up against are made flushes and Asx/Ksx hands, would it be better to blockerbet/fold river or check/decide river.

If I decide to check, calling vs folding comes down to how often V is willing to bluff river which I think is somewhat unlikely, so I expect to get a lot of check behinds. But, at the same time my line here looks weak going c/b/c and folding to a river bet doesn't feel great.

And if I decide to bet/fold I'm not really trying to get value, but trying to minimize the amount I'll have to put in the pot on the river, which isn't necessarily a great option either.

So what should the approach be here.

Your suits are off. There are no flushes possible.

Fixed.

I think it's better to throw in a blocker on the river planning to fold to a raise rather than just guess if V stabs after you check.

OP: perhaps you can tell us about effective stack/sizes because the preflop action has set up a bad scenario for your TT oop against the world in a raised pot.

About 200 effective with V.

If you believe your range for him, a blocker bet makes no sense.

Are you planning on calling a river bet?

If this is the kind of guy that takes stabs I'm checking to induce and decide once I see his sizing. If he goes for like 3/4 pot then you can fold, but if he bets like 30-40 I'm snapping.

You hold no blockers to villains value betting range and should therefore fold.

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Just check. He's never folding better. If he bets, it's almost always better than TT, but it's a check/decide.

I mean, what's he "stabbing" with that he called on the turn that doesn't beat TT? A smaller pp?

I think it's closer to a x/f than a x/c, depends on sizing

Not sure why you bet the turn. Seems to accomplish nothing

For value and equity denial.

I'm good with the hand as played through the turn.

If this guy can make a play on the river, then how can we be confident he won't see through a blocker bet and bluff raise?

Blocker bets rarely have merit and it doesn't here. Every single time you get called it will be by a better hand so there is literally no value in it. At least by check/calling (even it is a larger amount than you would bet), we keep his bluffs in. I'm also not opposed to check/folding.

Making a blocking bet here is just an excuse for not wanting to have to make a difficult decision. Depends on V's sizing but... C/C = C/F >> B

Basically my thought process as played in the hand. I checked river and ended up calling a $50 dollar river bet. Got showed a mid flush.

I think with ranges so defined on the river and not having enough evidence to weight villain towards bluffing this spot, this should have been a fold.