Reads: he checked back AKXhh flop as PFR with K9o and then called 2 barrels on blank turns.

In retrospective, I should have probably lead the flop since he doesnt cbet his medium strength hands.

But as played, do we shove this river, c/c or c/f?

C/f , he almost always has as least some showdownvalue when he calls the turn and he will probably not turn his pairs into a bluf in if you check so just check and hope he checks behind, betting is too thin imo when a lot of his possible holdings just made a straight and he will most likely not call a bet with worse hands anyway

I like small bet, fold to raise...against a passive station

i mean, why not?

he folds pair type hands to a shove?

I think I c/f. I wanna b/f but the stack sizes are just so gross. c/c is obv worst

Shoving accomplishes 2 things:

1) He can call with worse 2p hands.
2) He won't be able to bluff you.

I'm wondering if reason 2 makes sense. If he decides to bluff you a decent amount of the time, you'd probably have to fold (since we don't have a read he's bluff happy). So betting ourselves, and thus eliminating the option of getting bluffed, can that be a good thing? Normally I'd say if you think he can bluff, you should just c/c, but I don't think we can c/c in this spot without reads that he can bluff here. But not knowing that he can bluff here also goes against betting ourselves so we can't get bluffed, because if he never bluffs than betting to protect against bluffs is stupid.

I really don't know what to think about the above, so I thought I would just write about it and see what others have to say about it. It sounds silly to me, but maybe there's some merit to it.

reason 2 is actually a reason to check

It depends how good (or crazy) the opponent is really. It's a great spot to bluff once it gets checked to you since almost no one checks a made straight oop on the river in this spot.

i dont know. the average player at $15s most likely wont fold worse 2 pair and fold his 1 pair hands. do you think thats a reasonable assumption?