should i be betting on the end here instead of checking?

[Poop4Munny]

Party Poker 0.5/1 Hold'em (9 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is BB with 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">6 folds</font>, Button calls, SB completes, Hero checks.

Flop: (3 SB) 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, Button folds, SB calls.

Turn: (2.50 BB) T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, SB calls.

River: (4.50 BB) K[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
SB checks, Hero checks.

Final Pot: 4.50 BB

[tewall]

You should bet on the end if you think it's a little better than 50/50 that if you get called you will have a better hand than the caller. Do you think that's the case in this situation?

[milesdyson]

you're posting a lot of hands...


this one is fine.

[GoHoosiers]

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you're posting a lot of hands...

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OP: Five hands already within an hour. I've posted two hands in a month. Relax - you're pushing other posts off the front pages.


Rich

[nomadtla]

this pot is not big enough to fight for it with bottom pair no kicker. You're not gonna buy someone off an Ace here. The bet on the flop is marginal at best the turn bet is spewing. Maybe I'm weak/tight but I don't bet bottom pair duece kicker.

[Fantam]

Bottom pair is not that great a hand, and I would not have bet it on the flop.

But you managed to fold out the button. And then when a T fell on the turn, SB checked. That suggested that he didnt have either an A or a T as he checked to you on both the flop and turn.

And when he checked on the river after the third [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] fell, that suggested that he didnt have the flush.

Trouble is that SB probably wouldnt have called a river bet with a weaker hand than your bottom pair. So your best play was probably to just check behind him.