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Sometimes you need to determine what a bet accomplishes for you. Hand reading will tell you this guy has a hand worth betting if checked to, almost guaranteed.

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I'm not sure I follow. If you think that checking to him will cause him to bet a worse hand shouldn't you then check raise?

Maybe I am over simplifying . . . but If I ever have over 50% pot equity heads up . . . I will value bet or check raise (assuming there is a strong chance villian will bet). The question then becomes: Do we have over 50% pot equity?

He could easily be playing AKo, AQo, KQ [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], KJ [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], QJ [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]