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While you need to balance most aspects of your poker game,

While you need to balance most aspects of your poker game, most players will rarely see you make a river bet because most hands are over well before the river. Because of this, balancing your bet sizes isn’t that important against weaker players. Against good, regular players, who over time will play many rivers with me, I tend to bet around 3/5 pot on every river, assuming we are not close to getting all-in, regardless of my hand, including my value bets and bluffs, unless I am very confident in my read about their hand strength, which usually isn’t the case because good regulars are tough to read.

Over Betting the River

Over Betting the River Against players that cannot read hands well, if you make the nuts on the river and suspect they have a strong but second-best hand, you should strongly consider betting more than the size of the pot on the river, as they will rarely fold. Suppose you raise A-6 to 3BBs out of your 300BB stack from middle position and your opponent, a loose but straightforward player, calls in the small blind. The flop comes J-5-2. You bet 5BBs into the 7BB pot and your opponent calls. The turn is the Q. You bet 10BBs and your opponent check-raises to 24BBs. You think he has a strong hand but are unsure if he will call a re-raise. The only problem with calling is that a club on the river may scare your opponent into giving up with a weak flush. You decide to just call, hoping a club or a card pairing the board doesn’t come. The river is the 10. Your opponent bets 35BBs into the 65BB pot. At this point, a pot-sized raise would be to 170BBs, which is your 35BB call plus 135BBs that are in the pot. You only have 268BBs in your stack, so a push would be to around 1.6 times the pot. You are fairly certain your opponent has a flush and most likely will call any bet with it. In this situation, going all-in is the only play.