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Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ BB (10 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

UTG+1 ($200)
UTG+2 ($79.70)
MP1 ($330.55)
MP2 ($251.45)
MP3 ($258.95)
CO ($290.30)
Button ($126.90)
Hero ($209.70)
BB ($331)
UTG ($83.45)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. Hero posts a blind of $1.
UTG calls $2, UTG+1 calls $2, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, MP1 calls $2, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, MP3 calls $2, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Button calls $2, Hero (poster) completes, BB checks.

Flop: ($14) 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(7 players)</font>
Hero checks, BB checks, UTG checks, UTG+1 checks, MP1 checks, <font color="#CC3333">MP3 bets $15</font>, Button calls $15, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $50</font>, BB folds, UTG folds, UTG+1 folds, MP1 folds, MP3 folds, Button thinks for 20 sec and calls $35.

Turn: ($129) 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
Hero checks, Button calls $74.90 (All-In), Hero folds.

Final Pot: $203.90

Personally I dont like to slow play very often unless i flop the absolute nuts or i flop a strong hand heads up especially against a LAG. Here given its a 7 handed flop and your first to act i could justify your check raise but think you could have bet even more agressivly maybe raising to 80 to get him to fold either the K or A of hearts because out of 7 players its very unlikely that no one has the A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. Then again he might call with nething cause hes just that bad.

Ya, horrible turn card, fold here. I can't think of any hand he would play this way that you have beat.

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Personally I dont like to slow play very often unless i flop the absolute nuts or i flop a strong hand heads up especially against a LAG.

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I don't think check raising is slowplaying. I think a distinction is made between them in TOP. Regardless, I definitely favor the check raise here.

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but think you could have bet even more agressivly maybe raising to 80 to get him to fold either the K or A of hearts

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I think raising to 80 would allow the A and K of hearts to fold without making a mistake. In my opinion, a raise to 80 has -EV. It would allow all the drawing hands to safely fold without making a mistake and only get you called by higher flopped flushes.
You want the A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] and K [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] to call with improper pot odds. I think his bet did this. Higher flush draws only have 5 outs because of straight flush redraws.