Turning Stone hand

[naphinfitos]

$100 Max NL at Turning Stone Casino, 1/2 blinds

Hero-Button (107$)
Villain-SB (120$)

Folds around to me, I look down at J /images/graemlins/heart.gif T /images/graemlins/club.gif on the button and decide to see a flop.
After I call, SB raises it to 8$, BB folds, and I stubbornly stay in.

Pot= 18$

Flop K /images/graemlins/diamond.gif Q /images/graemlins/diamond.gif 4 /images/graemlins/club.gif

SB leads into me for $12, I decide to double it back to him hoping to either get a free turn card, a fold, or getting paid off more if I hit my draw. He calls $12

Pot=$66

Turn comes 5 /images/graemlins/heart.gif

He checks to me giving me my desired free card, but I get fancy and try to take the pot down there. I bet $50, he calls.

Pot=$166

River= 2 /images/graemlins/spade.gif

Again he checks to me. At this point I'm so disgusted with my play that I contemplate giving up the pot and checking behind him. I quickly look at the pot and see that it's pretty good sized, so he probably won't fold a K on the river, and maybe he won't even fold a queen. For some reason at this point my hand picks up my last 5 red chips and toss them in.

Thoughts? (results later)

[tbach24]

If it's folded around to me OTB, if I'm playing, I'm raising.

Don't make a weak min-raise, make a legit raise (35 would do).

Follow through on your plan to check behind the turn. I usually do when I semi-bluff raise and sometimes with a set too. That way, the pot isn't too inflated that it's impossible to bluff the river.

[naphinfitos]

Usually I'd raise this too, I just decided not to because it was my first session and I wanted to see some cheap flops and keep pots small (neither of which I came close to accomplishing). The reason I didn't raise more on flop tbach, as you will learn when you finally go to TS, is that the players there have no idea about potodds or raises in relation to pot size ( I guess that's also potodds). All they recognized is that you showed some strength, so they sould be careful. I think that if he's gonna call 12 here, he'll probably call anything up to 30.

[naphinfitos]

Not that anyone seems to care, but he folded, I showed JT as the dealer pushed the pot towards me, and he got real mad and flipped over A7d. He proceeded to lose 2 more buyins while waiting for his 5/10 limit game to open up, then was in a 4 way PFAI with 55. He never made it to 5/10.

[Malachii]

Good play. You attacked weakness. I like it.