Did I fail to make full advantage of a river bink at NL8?

shakinaces

Should I be looking to make a chunky raise on this river?

I didn't actually mean to check on the turn... although it may have been the best move anyway! Poor connection made the choice for me.

I figured that the villain was the sort of player that would see c-bet/give up as weakness and bet the turn with very little, so took the call.

Then lucky... only reason I didn't raise was that I figured he couldn't be strong enough to call unless he also had a 7... maybe even 78 which then obv leaves me in a world of pain calling off an all in. Even if I raise and he has a 7, it just means paying more rake.

Anyway, villain told me I should have been making a big raise on river. I can't argue that I'm probably too much of a nit, but... interested to hear thoughts.

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
shakinaces	Small blind		£0.04	£0.04	£7.96
villain	Big blind		£0.08	£0.12	£8.11
	Your hole cards	7 7
	Fold
	Fold
	Fold
	Fold
shakinaces	Raise		£0.16	£0.28	£7.80
villain	Call		£0.12	£0.40	£7.99
Flop
		6 9 4
shakinaces	Bet		£0.30	£0.70	£7.50
villain	Call		£0.30	£1.00	£7.69
Turn
		3
shakinaces	Check
villain	Bet		£0.72	£1.72	£6.97
shakinaces	Call		£0.72	£2.44	£6.78
River
		5
shakinaces	Check
villain	Bet		£1.68	£4.12	£5.29
shakinaces	Call		£1.68	£5.80	£5.10
villain	Show	Q J
shakinaces	Show	7 7
shakinaces	Win	Straight to the 7	£5.36		£10.46

Lambert180

I probably shove the river, if you are going to raise then the only raise size should be a shove. He can definitely call with worse, loads of 2pr and sets will do something in between snap calling and sigh calling. It's very hard for him to have a 7 seen as you have 2 and obviously his hand HAS to have a 7 in it to chop or win.