Losing the little pots...($22)

I do this occasionally and it may be a major leak of mine. No one has shown strentgh on the flop and my hand improves(although isn't that strong anyway) on the turn. If I pot this river(or anything less), how often could I get him to fold?

The board is very threatening so a bet should only be called by good hands. Villain has got his chips by catching a set and stacking someone, and then stacking another guy when his KJo turned a straight into slowplayed Aces. However, he has been in on about 75% of flops, raised or not....anyway, on to the insanity.


#Game No : 3206339718
***** Hand History for Game 3206339718 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $20 Buy-in + $2 Entry Fee Trny:18305600 Level:2 Blinds(15/30) - Thursday, December 15, 17:30:35 EDT 2005
Table Table 67703 (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 7
Seat 1: Jack_Herrer ( $680 )
Seat 4: bobbyallen1 ( $750 )
Seat 5: Ecapspace ( $1530 )
<font color="blue"> Seat 6: PSASDSTSSS ( $2230 ) </font>
<font color="red"> Seat 7: castanza_g ( $745 ) </font>
Seat 9: Scarypooper5 ( $650 )
Seat 10: Tekamthi ( $1415 )
Trny:18305600 Level:2
Blinds(15/30)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to castanza_g [ 9 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 8 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ]
Scarypooper5 folds.
Tekamthi folds.
Jack_Herrer folds.
bobbyallen1 folds.
Ecapspace calls [30].
<font color="blue"> PSASDSTSSS calls [15]. </font>
<font color="red"> castanza_g checks </font>
** Dealing Flop ** [ Q [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 5 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] ]
<font color="blue"> PSASDSTSSS checks. </font>
<font color="red"> castanza_g checks. </font>
Ecapspace checks.
** Dealing Turn ** [ 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] ]
<font color="blue"> PSASDSTSSS checks. </font>
<font color="red"> castanza_g bets [50]. </font>
Ecapspace folds.
<font color="blue"> PSASDSTSSS calls [50].</font>
** Dealing River ** [ Q [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] ]
<font color="blue">PSASDSTSSS checks. </font>
<font color="red">castanza_g checks. </font>

[BadMongo]

I'm not sure what you're hoping to accomplish by betting the turn. You will only be called by someone who has you beat, so the play has basically the same value as a bluff. Since in this case (unlike a bluff) you have some showdown value, why not just check it down?

well, I was hoping to take the pot by betting the turn. I didn't want to check it down because someone else now has a chance to steal the pot.

At the time I thought their was a signifigant chance no one would call. Is this wrong?

[tigerite]

I don't like it. If it was an offsuit 8, say 8 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] then I like it more.