Re: against river check raise
Straightforward bet/call. I don't think much explanation is needed as to why checking behind here really sucks.
The only question is whether you can fold to a check-raise here. There are three main reasons I went with "Hell No!":
1. Villain may be taking a shot in a heads-up pot. It is much more likely to be a play in this scenario than if it had started, say, 4 handed and only was heads-up at the river.
2. Villain might be getting tricky with a legit hand you're beating. Taking this line with a hand like KQ would be noteworthy but not necessarily impossible or even bad...
3. Folding here totally sucks for metagame reasons. In a heads-up pot, sometimes you needed to grin and bear it and pay off a little more than you might in multiway pots. Otherwise, not only will this opponent but every opponent at the table (who is watching) will begin to think that they can take shots at you.
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