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Good post and good point.

If anything, I tend to have the opposite tendency. I would've called the river here only to be shown two pair and think "should've been an obvious fold." When I'm running bad, I tend to think that my biggest problem is I tend to call down too much.

But then I always go back to theory: you only need to win about 1 in 8 of these to be correct. Then I think about long term results: in 13 years of poker, I've never swung down more than 200 bets. If my game was truly leaky somewhere, I would see much deeper swings (as well as lower winrates). Then I go back to calling down.

And I reread Jennifer's Harmon's chapter in SuperSystem II and Chip Reese's chapter in Supersystem I, and they both emphasize the importance of calling on the river HU. And I know from my experience that I find people who are willing and ready to fold the river to be much easier to play against.