I don’t get the concern here. We know V is stupid loose, you block a lot of the stuff that beats you, and most people are gonna check-raise before the river on a board like this if they have a monster anyway. If he check-raises the river, you just fold. It’s not going to be a bluff, so it doesn’t cost you more than your bet – fear of a check-raise is really not a good reason to check back. I bet it happens less than 10% of the time and even when it does happen is a bluff less than 10% of the time.

Your range is pretty strong, but I still think you can bet 15K – 20K.

chaos said
Andrew, I get that but, what worse hand do you think will call here?

Any Queen?

The thing is sometimes I’d rather know he’s calling twice with a Qx or with a backdraw SD or even with a combo like TK or similar than to bet and get him to fold, or does that not make sense at all?

Well, you’re kinda rigging the deck here. Of course you’d rather see his cards than bet and get a fold. The question is whether you’d rather see them than bet and have a chance of getting called.

OK, so you check and he shows T9. What did you gain from that? What you have learned? How will you use that information to make money later?

Or he shows Q4. OK, so now we know he’s really loose, and presumably we’ll take advantage of that by doing more value betting, right? Except we already have the read that he’s loose, so let’s just jump to the part where we do the value betting.