We all know what the point of playing poker is. To make money. Well, considering it is a game, the point is also to have fun, but you don’t need to learn strategies about having fun now, do you? You want to make money playing poker. For some, a good day at the tables is finishing up five bucks. For high stakes players, a good day could mean finishing up five hundred bucks. Regardless of the limits you play, you should always be looking for opportunities to extract that extra bet from your opponent. And that is where the value bet comes in. There are varying opinions of what exactly a value bet is, but in a nutshell, it is a bet (and for the purposes of this article, we’ll stick to a river bet) you make when you believe you have the best hand and you want your opponent to call because you don’t think you’ll be able to make more money any other way. You are trying to get every last ounce of value from the hand. It is easily one of the toughest bets to make in poker, as it is far from an exact science. Let’s look ...