advice is warmly welcomed


First I got this hand here:

he is a winning player after ~45 hands playing 75/2.4/1.12

he had 40 dollars, i chill with 25

It took me a while to do the call on the river.


Poker Stars
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.10/$0.25
9 players


Pre-flop: (9 players) Hero is SB with
2 folds, MP1 calls, 3 folds, Button calls, Hero calls, BB checks.

Flop: ($1, 4 players)
Hero bets $0.75, BB folds, MP1 calls, Button folds.

Turn: ($2.5, 2 players)
Hero checks, MP1 bets $1, Hero calls.

River: ($4.5, 2 players)
Hero checks, MP1 bets $1, Hero calls.

Results: in white
Final pot: $6.5
Hero showed Jc Ac
MP1 showed Kh Jh


After this hand I got that one here:



Poker Stars
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.10/$0.25
9 players


Pre-flop: (9 players) Hero is CO with
UTG calls, 4 folds, Hero calls, Button folds, SB calls, BB checks.

Flop: ($1, 4 players)
SB checks, BB checks, UTG checks, Hero bets $0.95, 2 folds, UTG calls.

Turn: ($2.9, 2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $2.8, UTG calls.

River: ($8.5, 2 players)
UTG bets $1 .... what's my action?

what would you say is more probably:
that someone acts in a special way (as he was weak when he did it) and gets busted and does it again the next time, or that it is exactly the other way around? that he will use my knowledge about his weakness when he does this 1 dollar bet to put me in a trap?

What would you say?

Prolly giving him too much credit here...maybe he does the reversal, but you didn't bluff last time, why would he expect you to this time?

yes i think i give him too much credit.
But well, he could expect me to do it this time, because I learned 1 dollar on river means high card. Anyways, I guess this is too complicated for him

I thought that he held J10o of course well, that's regular for me once I hold something which is above average, as normally I lose most of my money with those.

I called and villain showed


I don't think he would have called a lot more, but perhaps a few dollars.
I thought this was one of those "i bet something which screams of weakness" things.

Is there some way to differ between a blocking bet and such a kind of a trap?
Weak players normally.... (trap/block bet)?