Originally Posted by
donny111
you make a good point joefine in that i had plenty of chips left to play with. however you also fail to think about value. one of the best things that good players do is get value out of their hands. if your always going to check with a str8, 2 pair, or a low flush, because ITS POSSIBLE that your beat; then you are going to miss out on a lot of value bets that your hands should be getting. if the villain in this hand would have had say AJ and hes like many other online players who flop top pair with a good kicker and never fold, then i would have been an idiot to have it go check check on the river and let him get out for cheap while not get any value out of top 2 pair.