"#3 pencils and quadrille pads."
- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the grid lines were not so dominant.
"Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray."
- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.
I need a read here. There are no straights out there except 67, and it's pretty rare to see two straight checks with that hand. Otherwise you're only worried about 2 pairs and sets, and again I think it's very unlikely anybody checks twice with those. So I think you're probably ahead. But whether he'll pay you off is another question entirely.
Without a read, I probably bet half pot. My assumption is that I'm ahead most of the time, and he'll call often enough that it will make up for the few times I'm behind. But it's a pretty thin bet.
And then I pay more attention so next time I have a read. Especially at 6 max.