How do you play this turn?

[sean c]

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All my opponents are rated fish after a small sample. The table was very loose and players were calling down with all sorts of holdings. Raising the turn with bottom pair etc.

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Do you really need to ask us how to play this turn? Seriously? Or did you just throw this "read" in to justify your call?

Preflop: don't raise ATo out of the BB, unless it folded to SB and he completed.

Flop: a c/r would protect your hand better, here, but you have no idea where a bet will come from if one comes at all, so you should probably just bet it out and hope that one of the Products of the Shallow End of the Gene Pool raises his 95o thinking he's got a double-gutter. otoh, giving a free card, here, probably wouldn't be the worst thing on Earth, so I think it's a coin flip, and in those cases I usually opt for the line that keeps control of the hand. Bet is g00t.

Turn: nobody played back at you on the flop, of course you're going to bet. When it's raised, MP1 has either matched his queen, or he's made his straight, or he's trying to find his own ass and accidentally bumped his mouse into the raise button when he had to bring his extra hand into play. The point being, you're probably behind, now, but you've got 5 outs to improve to a likely winner, and you're getting 10:1...oh, and betting out and folding to a raise is generally bad for the ol' table image. Call is g00t.

River: hey, you caught one of your outs! Way to play! Too bad you can't be happy about it, as it brings a whole new load of possible holdings into play that beat you, plus you're still behind to a number of holdings that might have raised you on the turn (AQ, for instance). The one thing I doubt is that MP1 raised the turn to try and get a free showdown, so I'm going to crawl out on my limb here and suggest that you should either be check/calling or check/raising the river, probably the former. I doubt a worse hand is going to call your bet, but a better hand will raise you (yeah, yeah, fish love to call, blah, blah), so betting only puts you in a position to win the least and lose the most.

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Hi Boz great post. I would bet the river against four monkeys. I wouldn't be happy about it but checking is a pretty big risk IMO. If i wasn't confident enough that my improved hand wasn't ahead enough to bet here i probably would have folded the turn.