[andyfox]

Good arguments. When I first read Sklansky (I think) write about this, I was skeptical. After all, you're getting X:1 and why call the turn if you're not going to call the river? But there are so, so many players who'll bet the turn in an attempt to buy the pot and then check it down behind on the river when called on the turn, and so comparably few who will, as you point out, fire again on the river with something you can beat.

"I see otherwise good players pay off in situations like these all the time. Maybe they think their reads aren't good enough to make that fold...but reads like that can significantly add to one's hourly rate"

-I think this describes me: "otherwise good" [i.e., not great] and thinking my "reads aren't good enough." Obviously, we've had similar discussions here many times before, the old fur coat vs. fruit plate colloquy. But I definitely need work on this aspect of my game.