Hand vs Sklansky

[skp]

Nice river bet given his turn call but I am not so sure that the turn donkbet is required.

Given that this is one of your first hands with him and you guys share no history, about the only hand that David may check the turn with is AA (which of course would work out right for you given your holding). But the point is that there is no fear of you giving out a free card by checking as the money is going in anyway.

Betting the turn has its problems:

1. He might fold an Ace high hand and you don't want that.

2. He might raise with a hand worse than yours. But that's not so bad if (as I suspect) you were planning on calling a raise. Come to think of it, perhaps that's the driving force behind your bet.

3. He has a better hand like TT and raises for value (I think he probably just calls your turn bet with AA or KK).

But overall, I want to play this hand for just 2 big bets after the flop and the way to do that is to checkcall turn and bet river.

There are no metagame considerations here because:

a. You have had no hands with him yet;

b. In about another 20 minutes, David would have figured out that this was not such a great game and would have hit the road. I say that not in a manner condescending to David. I am sure he can more than hold his own against you guys (or anyone on these boards), But he is by all accounts also a man who practices good game selection and hitting the road here is the money play.

By contrast, you young internet studs like poker challenges too much and lock horns frequently with tough opponents...I say that admiringly.