OOP against preflop raiser

[Atropos]

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ BB (6 max, 6 handed) converter

UTG ($98.43)
MP ($104.4)
Hero ($231.65)
Button ($225.56)
SB ($296.13)
BB ($167.55)

Preflop: Hero is CO with 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. SB posts a blind of $0.5.
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, Hero calls $1, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises to $4.5</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, Hero calls $3.50.

Flop: ($10.50) 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">Button bets $1</font>, Hero calls $1.

Turn: ($12.50) T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">Button bets $5</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $25</font>, Button calls $20.

River: ($62.50) Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, Button checks.

Final Pot: $62.50

Damn I always play my hands in a way that I dont have any idea what my opponent has / what he thinks I have. I called the flop because he seemed to have AK-AX/overpair/underpair, something weak and no draw that could hurt me. His sudden bet at the turn had to have a meaning, I now put him on either a lucky TT (unlikely) or AT (quite probable) or AKs/AQs flush draw. Is the raise size against these ranges ok? At the river I was in check-call mode again, it seemed every possible draw had hit and a worse hand would not really pay me down. If I made a small bet and he raised me big I would have been in a very difficult spot.

[stu-unger]

i think u played the hand fine. i think check-raising the flop is a good alternative but calling is fine seeing that a check raise pretty much puts a sign on your head saying what u have. i like your turn play a lot and it looks like that river card screwed u because like u sayed it would take a real donk to get payed off in this spot with a worst hand.

[emil3000]

Raise preflop.
Lead the flop and hope he has a pair. If he hasn't you're only getting his bet anyway, and you're going for the stack, or at least a big pot. You are pretty deep. Checkraising is good when you are shallow, like 50BB.

[Atropos]

"Raise preflop.
Lead the flop and hope he has a pair. If he hasn't you're only getting his bet anyway, and you're going for the stack, or at least a big pot. You are pretty deep. Checkraising is good when you are shallow, like 50BB."

Why raise preflop? I'm already raising like 15% of my hands [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Probably I should shoot more for his stack, I dont do that as often as I had to. Normally I only stack opponents if I have easy stuff like set against their top pair...

[DoubleDown]

raise preflop ... as you didn't; fold

[TexArcher]

I like everything until the river, I would've bet it.