Hello everyone, here we are playing with a friend. Should I have bet bigger on the river? Or was the error bigger on the flop with the small size we made?

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Originally Posted by gustav197poker

Hello everyone, here we are playing with a friend. Should I have bet bigger on the river? Or was the error bigger on the flop with the small size we made?

Here the hand: https://www.cardschat.com/replayer/3qTfYIl

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I think you need to look at each street and think in terms of ranges.

What is your range for 3 betting preflop?

What is your range for small betting flop?
Would the top of your range AA AcKc etc check turn after making a bet that keeps your villains range wide?

Hope this helps

That is such thin value on the river that I think the sizing is OK.

Unless the 3 bet will generate a fold pre or on the flop I dont like in this spot. No way of knowing whether it would or not from my shoes but you would know that playing against the villain heads up assuming this was not at the beginning of the session.

The flop sizing is okay to me since that sizing can still be repping 10x and with the 3 bet pre you could be playing a monster that you dont want villain to fold against. However, I think your mistake is actually on the turn. When you check the turn and the board becomes double suited, villain should know there is no way you could have anything that strong since if you did you would want to protect it a bit, get value from it, and charge the potential draws that villain could have. Villain could put together now that you have air or have some small pocket pair at best and will much more inclined now to call down on the river. As played going to the river (this would actually could make you lose more in this hand then you did unless they check behind) I would go with check call as the play and hope villain bluffs at this pot thinking that we are not that strong. Villain could bluff with the scare card river here and generally probably would check behind with their 44-88 (less the 55). By checking you might save some money against small pocket pairs and gain more from villains air since villain probably folds their garbage to your small river bet.