[ QUOTE ]
Comments on all streets please.
Villain is vpip 45%, pfr 3%, 8.21 aggression postflop, 291 hands.
Party Poker Pot-Limit Hold'em, $ BB :#A500AF(villain)/ (6 max, 5 handed)
converter
saw flop|
<font color="#C00000">saw showdown</font>
<font color="#C00000">BB :#A500AF(villain)/ ($412.4)</font>
UTG ($310.3)
MP ($227)
Button ($866.5)
<font color="#C00000">Hero ($944.22)</font>
Preflop: Hero is SB with 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. Hero posts a blind of $2.
<font color="#666666">
1 fold</font>, MP calls $4, Button calls $4, Hero (poster) completes, <font color="#CC3333">BB :#A500AF(villain)/ raises to $11</font>, MP folds, Button calls $11, Hero calls $11.
Flop: ($49) 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">villain bets $25</font>, Button folds, Hero calls $25.
Turn: ($99) 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">villain bets $15</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $142</font>, villain calls $127.
River: ($383) 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero bets all in; Villain calls $230.4
Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
villain has 6d 6h (full house, sixes full of fives).
Hero has 9s 8s (straight, nine high).
Outcome: villain wins $383. </font>
[/ QUOTE ]
Hero is calling a drawing hand into a raise out of position. Not a very big raise, so not a very big deal, but still a bad habit.
Hero is calling the flop, in order to bluff later? The odds of hitting your gutshot, on a paired board, do not justify the call. It only works if you're planning to make a large move at the pot later regardless of whether you hit or miss. Or were you thinking that your 8/9 were outs?
Once villain calls the big check-raise on the turn, warning bells should start going off in your head.
I don't like the river all-in. He's folding anything you beat except A5/A4/44.