Couldn't put him on anything better than me...

[MagicFlea]

...so I 3-bet the river. Also, should I have raised this preflop? (Wow, just noticed reading the hand history that CO was posting... definitely should have raised, right?)

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Preflop: Hero is BB with 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. CO posts a blind of $7.
<font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, CO (poster) checks, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, SB completes, Hero checks.

Flop: (3.40 SB) 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, CO calls, SB folds.

Turn: (2.70 BB) T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, CO calls.

River: (4.70 BB) A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">CO raises</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero 3-bets</font>...

[Harv72b]

Yeah, with the poster + SB only limping, I'd have raised preflop, too. When the river comes, I have to think that if it made CO a better hand than yours, you would have heard about it before.

[toby]

I'd put him on a worse two pair, A4 or A2. 3-bet here looks solid, unless you have notes on him slowplaying big hands like a set (22, 44, 88).

[Shillx]

I'd 3-bet, get capped and then get shown 53o for a straight. The guy posted in the CO so he litterally could have any 2 cards. A8 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] looks like a monster here against an LP poster who checked and the SB who completed. You have to raise this hand preflop.

Brad

[MagicFlea]

ooh, didn't even think about the straight. In the hand I hadn't noticed that he was posting. Anyway, in this case, you would have been capped, called, and been shown A10, the one hand you were absolutely sure he didn't have [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Diggslick]

Okay, I'm just a newb here trying learn from other's hand postings. I'd also 3-bet the river under the premise that far more often I will be shown a worse two pair/ (bluff the ace as a scare card,Hero hasn't shown a TON of strength here.) then I will be shown a better hand.(though 3,5 seems plausable here)How's my logic? It almost seems too simple here, am I missing something deeper?
Also, wouldn't the set be played awfully slow? What would be gained by waiting till the river to raise over the turn?