Betting small pairs for value: when do you slow down?

[KingOtter]

I think I'd rather check/call the river here than bet and have to fold to a raise.

KO

[lautzutao]

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I think I'd rather check/call the river here than bet and have to fold to a raise.

KO

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Give OP's read, I don't think we have to worry about being raised, unless he hit a FH on the river[img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I like betting here. Against a true calling station I think we're better here more than ~16% of the time, and we're getting 5:1 on our bet. Like some of the other posters here, Ace high, bottom pair, or even Queen high are not out of the realm of possibility. And he's almost always gonna call, so we really don't need to worry about not collecting our final bet.

And all joking aside I think even a calling station would recognize that his K would be pretty far ahead if he had one and would raise with it on the turn.

So I think a river bet is solid.