[VandyNDE]

I like the play at all streets. River bet helps you judge where you are and knock out the blinds (and would have knocked out Shorty if s/he had a bad hand). The villain check-call seems uncharacteristic for a loose aggressive player, so you are probably facing one slowplayer and one person on the make at best and two slowplayers at worst.

Thus, the reduction to half-pot-sized after the turn was a good move to, as you say, buy a cheap river. The $.75 is clearly a good bet to get to see a river on what would be a $3.80 pot. Even if shorty folds (which is unlikely with a good portion of his/her stack in the pot), you have a $3.05 and your implied odds on hitting your flush more than pay out here.

The river bet is a good one also. It looks like your previous bets and will thus not attract much attention. Plus, if Villain is slowplaying, which looks more and more likely as the hand goes on, you can count on the reraise to get you all in. I think you played it right all the way down.

The only way you could have lost is to 10 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] and either 7 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] or K [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. You do have to worry about these as possibilities because I would take a turn with second pair and inside straight draw for only $.35. However, I would have reraised after the turn to prevent getting beating by a different club coming off on the river and I think either a short stack (Shorty) or an aggressive player (Villain) would too. Thus, while I'd worry a little about losing to the straight flush, it's still correct to go all in on the river.