Help me not suck
 

NL 50, stacks 55$.

No reads.

I have T [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]T [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] on button. MP raises to 2$, I call, SB calls.

Pot 6$
Flop T [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]8 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]8 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
-- SB checks, MP bets 6$, I raise to 12$, MP calls

Pot 29
Turn 7 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
-- MP checks, I bet 10$, MP thinks and calls

Pot 48
River 7 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
-- MP checks, I bet 11$, MP folds

Making it 16 on the flop gets me A LOT more value doesn't it? I was somewhat proud of myself for resisting the temptation to just call the flop, but I didn't get much out of him beyond the min raise. I think he would have folded the turn for much more than 10$.

16 on flop, 12 on turn after that?

Re: Help me not suck
 

i don't think I'd raise here on the flop. It pushes away too many overpairs, flush draws, straight draws, and over cards. It also makes it harder for me to extract value on future streets if he doesn't have an 8.

Re: Help me not suck
 

can't help it if he doesn't have much of a hand.

you don't stack somebody everytime you flop a monster.

Re: Help me not suck
 

Not raising the flop here is a mistake... there are shitloads of turn cards that kill my action... one of them being the 7 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

Its just bothering me that he might have gotten away from an overpair on the river.

Re: Help me not suck
 

what is the point of this post?