What to do on the river...

[cgwahl]

when you have been betting on the flop and turn (semi-bluff) and you don't make your hand on the river (or you do, but have reason to believe that the other guy made a better one)? Usually this would be when you would be the first guy to bet each time..

Is the best thing to do is just check and hope he checks as well or if he does bet just fold? With occasional betting again in hope the guy folds.


Sorry if this sounds like a dumb question...I suppose the best strategy would be just to get out on the turn by checking and then folding if they bet. But there have been many times when I thought or believed that the other guy would fold (or believed the odds were with me on getting the card(s) I needed on the river) by betting and then of course, he didn't. Then when the river came I didn't get my card/hand.

I am mostly unsure what to do on the end, just check then fold, check then raise or just check and hope you win?

[Demana]

While this could be considered a beginners question, you'll get a lot more *action* posting it in the Poker Theory forum.

[cgwahl]

Will do. Thanks.

[ricochet420]

This is a question I struggle with daily. If I have the stack and really believe the only way I can win is to bet, I will. I know most people will say that is perfect tilt, doing something when you believe it will result in negative, but that is what I usually do. Besides sometimes getting caught in a bluff/semibluff is good for table image when you have the monster.