Do I have enough equity to bet here?

[Duffman]

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Don't have many reads except, table is loose agressive.

Stage #153786256: Holdem Normal $0.25/$0.50 [ 2005-07-13 14:48:36 ]
Seat 1 - hero $24.65 in chips
Seat 2 - sb $4.25 in chips
Seat 3 - bb $3.07 in chips
Seat 4 - utg $12.17 in chips
Seat 5 - utg+1 $1.30 in chips
Seat 6 - mp1 $11.70 in chips
Seat 7 - mp2 $10.30 in chips
Seat 9 - co $3.25 in chips
*** BLIND [dealer 1] ***
ERIC023 - Post small blind $0.10
ONEPOTAWAY - Post big blind $0.25
HD1981 - Post $0.25
hero - Pocket [Qs,Kc]
UTG - Folds
UTG +1 - Folds
MP1 - Calls $0.25
MP2 - Calls $0.25
CO - Checks
BUTTON - Raises $0.25 to $0.50
SB - Calls $0.40
BB - Calls $0.25
MP1 - Calls $0.25
MP2 - Calls $0.25
CO - Calls $0.25
*** FLOP [5h,4h,8s] ***
SB - Checks
BB - Checks
mp1 - Checks
mp2 - Checks
co - Checks
ZEEBDUFF - Bets $0.25
sb - Folds
bb - Calls $0.25
mp1 - Calls $0.25
mp2 - Calls $0.25
co - Calls $0.25

Was the flop raise a mistake?

[@bsolute_luck]

if you're the Button who raised preflop and then bets the flop...i would have just checked. you didn't get any of that flop, your outs are dirtied by the flush draw, and there is a straight draw on the board.

[Fantam]

I think your flop bet was fine, although the decision tends to depend upon the nature of your opponents.

You had 2 big overcards in late position on the flop, and everyone had just checked to you as the pre-flop raiser.

Now if you thought that the other players were passive, then your raising might have encouraged them to check to you again on the turn. Then if you didnt pair one of your overcards, you could check and see the river for "free".

However when you try raising from late position on the flop to "buy a free card", you risk being check-raised by an agressive early position player with a better hand.

In this hand the pot was big enough, that if you were check-raised you still had good odds to call to see if your hand improved by the turn.