[lilkunta2]

i thought this was an interesting hand and i wanted some input on how people may have played it differently.

***** Hand History for Game 3119668496 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:17852646 Level:3 Blinds(25/50) - Wednesday, November 30, 05:49:45 EDT 2005
Table Table 66957 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 7
Seat 1: BlueBlaz3r ( $435 )
Seat 2: subboto ( $747 )
Seat 3: ser4phim ( $1891 )
Seat 4: RandomMyAss ( $605 )
Seat 5: kanetzeo ( $2352 )
Seat 6: vollerock36 ( $1070 )
Seat 10: AbacusMan ( $900 )
Trny:17852646 Level:3
Blinds(25/50)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to ser4phim [ Td Js ]
RandomMyAss raises [100].
kanetzeo calls [100].
vollerock36 folds.
AbacusMan folds.
BlueBlaz3r folds.
subboto folds.
>You have options at Table 67237 Table!.
ser4phim calls [50].
>You have options at Table 67238 Table!.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7h, 8s, Ts ]
>You have options at Table 67236 Table!.
ser4phim bets [150].
>You have options at Table 67238 Table!.
RandomMyAss folds.
kanetzeo raises [300].
ser4phim calls [150].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qh ]
ser4phim checks.
>You have options at Table 67236 Table!.
kanetzeo bets [925].
ser4phim folds.
kanetzeo does not show cards.
kanetzeo wins 1850 chips

questions:

preflop, is this an automatic call given 5 to 1 odds?

on the flop, i bet out really hoping to take it down. i thought i might have the best hand, and if i didn't, i had a gut shot 9, another 10 and (maybe) a jack would make me the winner, since it would be hard to put the flop raiser on a 9 if the jack did fall. i knew if i got raised big i was going to fold, but the raise was only the minimum and a call seemed automatic to me with my hand at that point.

what do you think? room for improvement?