Villain is 19/8 over 40 hands. so nothing too special to report. Prolly another silly calling station.

Poker Stars $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em - 5 players
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SB: $25.00
BB: $16.75
UTG: $28.95
CO: $25.00
Hero (BTN): $48.60

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is BTN with J A
1 fold, CO raises to $1, Hero calls $1, 2 folds

Flop: ($2.35) Q 8 T (2 players)
CO bets $1.50, Hero calls $1.50

Turn: ($5.35) 9 (2 players)
CO checks, Hero bets $4, CO calls $4

River: ($13.35) 9 (2 players)
CO checks, [color=red]Hero bets $5?

I assume river is a solid bet/fold. Villain has $14 left if he calls my bet of $5. Could I bet bigger here? If I bet too much bigger then it becomes a bet/call.

PS I could bet bigger on turn to protect against draws etc. but I feel like betting $5 on turn just tells him I have a J and dont want him to get there. Who knows.

bet like 10

Hero played it fine.

Flatting Pre Is not a good option. I toying between a 3-bet bluff or a fold. AJo does not fair too well against this guys opening range and can get you into a lot of bother Post.

As played If you flat that flop you cannot be considering a bet/fold at any point once you hit your gutshot and should be playing for stacks here..

Flopped sets do not check the turn and if he has 99 its a cooler.

+1
dont bet 5 into a 13$ pot ever. Time of "valuebets" if long gone... The hand that calls 5$ on this board will call 10 everytime...

I think $5 is fine, you could argue $6 ish too, but its a 4 straight paired board, it's a tough call with Qx and he's probably folding Tx. But I think the flop call is bad, all you have is a GS and a over card he will rarely cbet air on this flop, and your sometimes dominated. He is very tight preflop so his going to show up with stronger hands than AJ often so the preflop call is also a bit too loose

Reallly? We're IP and hes opening from the CO...

i might check down this river for showdown value, if you think he has middle pair alot by all means fire 10$