Bet on the river?

[cleinen]

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t15 (10 handed) converter

MP3 (t585)
Hero (t755)
Button (t745)
SB (t725)
BB (t1205)
UTG (t555)
UTG+1 (t1525)
UTG+2 (t745)
MP1 (t435)
MP2 (t725)

Preflop: Hero is CO with T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, UTG+2 calls t15, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, MP2 calls t15, MP3 calls t15, Hero calls t15, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, SB completes, BB checks.

Flop: (t87.50) A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(6 players)</font>
SB checks, BB checks, UTG+2 checks, MP2 checks, MP3 checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t30</font>, SB folds, BB folds, UTG+2 calls t30, MP2 calls t30, MP3 calls t30.

Turn: (t207.50) K[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(4 players)</font>
UTG+2 checks, MP2 checks, <font color="#CC3333">MP3 bets t90</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t180</font>, UTG+2 folds, MP2 calls t180, MP3 calls t90.

River: (t747.50) Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
MP2 checks, MP3 checks, Hero checks.

Final Pot: t747.50

now that i look at it more i should fold to the turn bet

[elonkra]

If I chose to call preflop here, which I might very well not (whether that's right or wrong, I don't know), I certainly wouldn't be betting the flop with bottom pair and six checking limpers. There's no way your hand is good at this point in the game, and you're asking to get raised by two pair or top pair when you have an opportunity of seeing a free card that might make trips or the nuts for you. And, as you conceded, when you made the bad postflop decision you most certainly should have folded on the turn.

[raptor517]

i fold preflop, dont bet the flop, and fold on the turn [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] holla

[cleinen]

my logic on the flop bet was to see if i would get reraised and then know where i was in the hand and then fold. The result was a 3 way split no one had a spade. Thats why i was thinking a bet on the river might be in order and take down the pot. thanks for the input.

corey