Playing the nuts against passive opponents

[PoBoy321]

I was the guy in the original thread, and I think that you've got a point about passive players being far more willing to simply call off their entire stacks than raise at any point with the near nuts. There have been a couple of threads about playing monster hands, and the advice is almost unequivocally "Bet, bet, bet because they won't do it for you," and I think that in most cases that's absolutely true.

I think in your case, however, the villain hasn't shown any strength at any point in the hand, so your value bet on the end was justified.