100-200 Hand...did anyone play it well?

[Coilean]

The big question is the good player's preflop play. He may have been right (or only slightly wrong, J9s is still a piece of crap heads up against a loose raiser [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]) to enter the pot preflop simply because the bad player was in there and he had position on him with an okay hand.

J9s may be stooping a bit low, but I generally think good players in late position should loosen up their starting requirements significantly after a bad player has entered the pot. If the good player is in for this reason, then his opponent probably isn't the type to be stolen from very often, so reraising to isolate loses a lot of it's value unless he has a good heads up hand already, and he's probably looking to either flop something and get paid off or get out. But it's also possible that the good player isn't as good as you thought. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

As for the good player's postflop play, the only real decision is whether or not to raise the flop, and calling seems best to me. Given his opponent is overaggressive and pays off too much (assuming the good player entered the pot correctly preflop), raising the flop would probably have him looking at a reraise too often to make it profitable to semibluff or go for a free card.