Considering a river bluff, no limit tournament

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Game type: $100 rebuy 6 max, Full Tilt Poker
Stage of tourney: Rebuy period closed
Your image: Tricky
Opponent’s image: TAGish
Your hand: 7♠7♣

The setup: You’re in the third hour of this rebuy tournament on Full Tilt Poker when the following hand comes up.

You get 77 on the CO. A taggy player UTG raises to about 3x and you call. Flop:

9♠Q♥A♠

Your opponent checks and you bet a bit over 1k. He calls. The turn is the 4♦. Your opponent checks again and you check back. The river is the 8♣.

Your opponent checks a third time.

What’s your play?

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BlueMustard

I check here, mainly because if he has complete air (missed flush draw), you’re winning anyways because he can’t call your bet.

It is also entirely possible that villain has top pair weak(ish) kicker, and went into shut-down mode because he is OOP.

If he has something like QK, he’s pretty much gotta call your river bluff because of the turn check. I fire a bullet on the turn instead of the river here.

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samo

I voted check. Hero has a pair to showdown and the v called a flop bet with 3 overs to your 77. If v had an Ace, would have lead the flop imo with danger cards out there. I’m thinking they have KQ, 10s, and draws. Hero can only beat missed draws which v will not call anyway. If they are slow-playing a set, you’ll lose a good chunk of your stack with a bluff.

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Jeff

Check it

I like Samo’s range of V and am on board there

As for us, we’ve got decent showdown value and revealing our holding doesn’t diminish our image, if anything it illustrates we’re not going to get spewey.

Let’s take the free card and save our River bluffs for a better situation.

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Bert

easy check, if he called the flop he certainly wont fold to a river bet unless its a mad shove or something but that would be crazy

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AmankLaffag

yeh right.. great post, Thank You

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