Re: 10-20 online river bet - easy or dumb?
If your KK is the best hand and you bet, you win 1 bet from each caller. On average that will probably be somewhere between 1 and 2 bets. If you check, neither of them will bluff and you'll win nothing.
If your KK is beaten by someone and you bet, you'll get raised. Then you lose 2 bets assuming you call the raise. If you check you lose 1 bet when you call.
So, if you have the best hand, you gain between 1 and 2 bets by betting, but if you don't, you lose 1 bet.
Considering that the chances that you have the best hand appear to be well over 40%, you should make the easy bet.
This is clear cut because you are first to act. If you had the button the risk/reward would be far different.
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