Blinds...Help!

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Play it more aggressively and it's win small, win big... and lose to a donk 10% of the time when he sucks out.

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I agree I didn't play the hand aggressively enough...
but for sake of discussion...

If I check-raise to ...ooh...1250 or if I lead out for say 500ish...

Aren't I just telling weak Queens and any 9 to rightly fold? Playing it the way I did...I fully expected to get paid off by any Queen and most 9s from this particular fish.

Now maybe THIS time there WAS a monster under the bed... but shouldn't I be more concerned with the higher percentage of the time I can really take the villain for a ride than with the lower percentage of the time the villain holds one of those draws - in his 2 random card big blind?

(More often than not there is no monster under that bed!)

I'm still missing some philosophical piece of the puzzle here...(as to the reasoning of playing the hand aggro like against the big blind....)

What hands pay me off if I do?

Though the aggro would have the benefit of making it "incorrect" for draws to call...and the comfort of knowing that I at least got my money in good...

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In general, the donks will come along anyway, because they don't understand pot odds.

If you fold out a good player, you're still happy, because you've won a nice pot, and he wasn't going to invest any more chips anyway unless he hit his draw.

So it's good either way.

Also, note JT isn't the only MUTB here, any broadway card falls and you have to be worried about a higher two pair.