Does a worse hand call this river?

Can I get more value on the river? He was playing a standard Tag game and hadn't seen him do anything out of line yet.

** Game ID 856700155 starting - 2006-07-11 11:48:38
** Fire Open [Hold 'em] (0.05|0.10 No Limit - Cash Game) Real Money

- InTooLong sitting in seat 1 with $4.60
- bobbybellona sitting in seat 2 with $9.85
- superboom sitting in seat 3 with $9.65
- EL_COHIBA sitting in seat 4 with $8.55 [Dealer]
- xramlrac sitting in seat 5 with $10.75
- greenOak sitting in seat 6 with $10.05
- joel80 sitting in seat 7 with $4.90
- Ticco12 sitting in seat 8 with $9.90
- Nhimm sitting in seat 9 with $3.65
- scherschliff sitting in seat 10 with $7.00

xramlrac posted the small blind - $0.05
greenOak posted the big blind - $0.10

** Dealing card to greenOak: Queen of Spades, Queen of Diamonds
joel80 folded
Ticco12 folded
Nhimm folded
scherschliff called - $0.10
InTooLong folded
bobbybellona folded
superboom folded
EL_COHIBA called - $0.10
xramlrac called - $0.10
greenOak bet - $0.50
scherschliff folded
EL_COHIBA called - $0.50
xramlrac called - $0.50

** Dealing the flop: Jack of Spades, 5 of Clubs, 7 of Diamonds
xramlrac bet - $1.30
greenOak called - $1.30
EL_COHIBA folded

** Dealing the turn: 6 of Diamonds
xramlrac checked
greenOak bet - $2.50
xramlrac called - $2.50

** Dealing the river: 6 of Hearts
xramlrac checked
greenOak?

oh yes. bet it.

occasionally you'll run into a check-raise with a better hand but the way the action went on all streets, not too likely.

Shove. There's what, ~$10 in pot? You have ~$5 behind. He's checked to you on the turn and river. What do you need, a gold-plated invitation?

put it all in, him calling=you getting paid

id have shoved the turn on that site.

Sorry, left for a baseball tournament and haven't posted in a while. I can't find that hand history immeadiately but i can remember this hand and i believe i bet the river for $3 or so and he called with AJ.

You say push the turn, but i do not understand exactly why you would do that. Please elaborate

betting 3 on river is ok, pushing is probably better though, he will have a J here a lot and at 10nl will stack easily if you just give him the chance.

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You say push the turn, but i do not understand exactly why you would do that. Please elaborate

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This site is where i started playing cash games oh so long ago, and i still revisit becasue its just too good to miss.

One of the great things about the site is that players at small stakes games here wont just make bad calls (calling station calls) they will make horrible calls for their stack. Thus if you can put him on a pair by the turn then push because he may like that pair enough to get all in, and at this site they do. Id go as far to say if you'd puhed the turn here AJ would have insta-called because the playrs at these stakes on the site inevotably ting tptk is the absolute nuts, despite having called preflop with highly dominated hands.

If you really want to test this, move to the 6max games and really overplay your hands like AA/KK and sets.

Over the last few sessions I've done a lot more pushing than value betting and it has really shown in my profits. I was pushing in spots I'd never push before and they would often call with hands as weak as TPNK.