My NL game is generally built around playing relatively small pot, post flop poker without holding some pretty powerful hands which gets the job done very nicely at the lower limits. I really hate calling off stacks in big overbet situations like the following. Who folds to the river bet here and who sucks it up and calls. I check behind many times on the turn to keep pot sizes small when faced with resistance and I was willing to take a chance on a non club river here and perhaps induce a bluff if I was ahead or limit the damage if I was beaten but unfortunately the small river bet didn't materialize.

Villain 17/5.6/2.4 71 hands.

POKERSTARS GAME HOLD'EM NO LIMIT ($0.10/$0.25) - 2007/03/11 - 14:24:04 (ET)
Table 'Musa' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: Blut3ngel ($24.75 in chips)
Seat 3: Captain M6 ($1.40 in chips)
Seat 4: Mich22 ($14.20 in chips)
Seat 5: dizzy552005 ($37.80 in chips)
Seat 6: drmaligno ($29.95 in chips)
Seat 7: fool#13 ($24.65 in chips)
Seat 8: Zejj ($27.55 in chips)
Seat 9: Bippo Costa ($28.95 in chips)
Blut3ngel: posts small blind $0.10
Captain M6: posts big blind $0.25
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to fool#13
Mich22: folds
dizzy552005: calls $0.25
drmaligno: raises $1 to $1.25
fool#13: calls $1.25
Zejj: folds
Bippo Costa: folds
Blut3ngel: folds
Captain M6: folds
dizzy552005: calls $1
*** FLOP ***
Captain M6 leaves the table
dizzy552005: checks
drmaligno: checks
bombertime joins the table at seat #3
fool#13: bets $1.75
dizzy552005: folds
drmaligno: calls $1.75
*** TURN ***
drmaligno: checks
fool#13: checks
*** RIVER ***
drmaligno: bets $26.95 and is all-in
Fool ??????????????

Turbo-Muck

I fold. In my experience at 25NL, overbets (esp. river overbets) generally = the nuts trying to look like a bluff. I would guess QQ or maybe AQ here. You have a tight, relatively aggressive opponent who doesnt CB the flop here, which is kinda fishy to me. This whole hand looks like a monster to me, but I hope I am wrong for your sake. I'm very curious about what other folks have to say.

So the opponent went raise 5x, chk/call a weak bet, chk, push. That's a monster almost all the time. Strong preflop then slowplay 2 streets then push = flopped monster.

Yeah I donked this one up on the river. I very rarely get myself screwed like this particularly when I am in the flow of things but for whatever reason I just lost my senses here and called and he showed one of the two hands that was quite obvious that he would have there.

Fold. The only hands in his range that you beat and makes sense on that board is AJ mostly and AT a small %age. You'll see AQ and QQ a lot, A9 and 99 possible here as well.

Anybody else bet the turn here or just me?

Easy fold. I would bet turn very often.