Why did you check the turn and bet the river??(I'm not criticize I'm just askin if there was a reason?)

minimize pot when behind
not concerned with donkey calling with middle pair and hitting his 5 outer there
i have Ah so i dont put him on flush draw often

this is why i say continue to bet on turn.

You thought he has you beat on the flop?? then why you bet the river??
If you were not sure where you are at after the flop why you checked the turn??
funny is that I learned all this from you guys!

i check the turn in case he has a bigger hand than me to keep the pot small. i feel comfortable with my hand, but i dont want to play a huge pot with it because ill probably lose in that situation.

plus if he has some lower pocket pair, he might come out and bet the river when he would have folded the turn to a bet, so i get some extra value out of that.

im not afraid of him drawing out cause i dont put him on flush draw since i have Ah

since he checked river i assume my hand is still best cause i dont think 2 pair+ would check twice, so i bet the river to extract some value from Ax or maybe QJ KJ etc

this is a post by matt flynn on 2+2 that describes this

pot control is one of the fundamentals of big bet poker, right there with stack size adjustments, putting players to tough decisions, avoiding tough decisions and so forth. in the first approximation, it can be summed as: when you are committed, build a big pot. when you are not committed, keep the pot small. a classic example is when you hold AK and raise preflop - say to 5x the bb after a limper (aka, "the pot"). you get two callers. pot is 16x. flop comes AJ5 twotone. check to you, you bet 15x. positional player folds. small blind calls. pot is 46x. turn is an offsuit 9. your opponent is a pretty tight blind player. what do you do? pot control says you check the turn to keep the pot small because you are not committed to the hand. in other words, you believe that if you play a big pot, you will lose more than you will win. you can see the additional advantages of checking of possibly inducing a bluff on the river, or inducing a call on the river by showing weakness on the turn. a disadvantage is you give a free card. pot control is but one fundamental. suppose you have 1000x left, but your opponent only has 40x. well then stack size issues take precedence b/c the small stack size means you are automatically committed (assume no magic tells and no ultracrappy play on SB's part that allows you to play otherwise). stack size takes precedence and you must shove in (or close to it) to force the draw to fold or make a bad call. suppose you have 1000x and opponent has 400x. now you got some room to play. you might check, but you know he may have a flush draw, and that he will not attack lightly. you may well opt for betting the turn - maybe 2/3 of the pot - to get him to lay down a flush draw and also declare his hand. you have put him to a tough decision, which in that case can be more important than pot control. he can aikido you by semibluff check-raising, or by calling then betting the river - in some cases regardless of the river card. keep in mind that b/c you bet the turn you would prefer to check the river, b/c the only losing hand you might get him to call three streets with is AQ and even then he may fold. now you have entered a new plane of poker where your opponent is exercising some pot control but also putting you to decisions. betting the turn requires a much higher level of skill against a good opponent but can often be the right play. you can, alternatively, avoid a tough decision by checking behind. in this turn example, checking the turn accomplishes both pot control and avoiding a tough decision if he check-raises. start with the first approximation. matt