A hand a friend and I discussed

[PokerBob]

I am the worst player ever, so a friend of mine has looked at a few of my hands. We disagreed a bit about this one. Button here is pretty TAGgy (22/18/2). BB is a monkey (46/16). Comments on all streets appreciated.

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Preflop: Hero is MP with J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Button 3-bets</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, BB calls, Hero calls.

Flop: (9.33 SB) 3[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
BB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises</font>, BB calls, <font color="#CC3333">Hero 3-bets</font>, Button calls, BB calls.

Turn: (9.16 BB) 3[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
BB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, Button calls, BB calls.

River: (12.16 BB) 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
BB checks, Hero checks, Button checks.

Final Pot: 12.16 BB

[MrWookie47]

I think you bet this river. Button may not call you with his K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]A, but BB will call with whatever he has.

[PokerBob]

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I think you bet this river. Button may not call you with his K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]A, but BB will call with whatever he has.

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are you folding to a raise?

[Chairman Wood]

From who?

[PokerBob]

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From who?

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button.

[Wynton]

I bet river, and call a raise. But I don't think you're getting raised.

[Chairman Wood]

I really think the likely hood of you getting raised is pretty close to nil also.

[jba]

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I bet river, and call a raise. But I don't think you're getting raised.

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[Nottom]

This is a pretty easy river bet IMO. If the button has you beat and is good he will bet when you check most of the time anyway so you don't save much with a check. Raising at this point for him is terrible for pretty much anyhand, so I wouldn't worry about that either.

The important thing to recognize is that even if your value against the button is quite small or slightly negative (which I don't think is true) the presence of the BB adds a ton of value to your bet which makes checking that much worse.

[Chairman Wood]

Bet the river.