Originally Posted by Praetorianoctem

If you put the player on one of the hands that beats you then why call at all...if you don't give him respect for one of the hands that can beat you..then why no raise, a raise gives youo the opportunity to take it down right there, and or increase your winning s at show down. based on your statment at the beginning of the thread I see no logic in the call down. in your spot I would have been raising it up but then thats me and im a rookie so take it for what it is worth, which is probably nothing. lol

Originally Posted by iopq

on your first point, he put him on a range that he beat the majority of, so he thinks he's ahead more than 50%

and if he has one of the hands you have beat you don't want to take the pot down right there, you want to get more bets
if he has one of the hands that you don't have beat you don't want to put in more bets into the pot

all of those hands bet the river and won't fold to a raise
but the hands that beat him 3-bet the river, while the hands that don't are probably content to call

so you have to be good two thirds of the time on the river in order to make a profit with a river raise
it's only a good raise if he would 3-bet with AQ on the river too