Commentary on this hand please

[PaulRobinson]

Would appreciate some thoughts and commentary on this hand, would you have played it the same?


***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 729712782 *****
NL $0.05/$0.10 Texas Hold'em - Sunday, July 11, 23:43:59 GMT 2010
Table Mensa 07 9-max (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of active players : 8
Seat 1: garrylaura ( $10.82 )
Seat 2: potrprol1 ( $1.92 )
Seat 3: Sotiresd ( $9.90 )
Seat 4: StinhoAK ( $7.94 )
Seat 5: RABUS78 ( $11.89 )
Seat 6: larry 32 ( $8.61 )
Seat 8: toastjohn1 ( $1.89 )
Seat 9: HERO ( $10.75 )
potrprol1 posts small blind [$0.05]
Sotiresd posts big blind [$0.10]
toastjohn1 posts big blind [$0.10]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to HERO[ , ]
StinhoAK folds
RABUS78 raises to [$0.45]
larry 32 folds
toastjohn1 folds
HERO calls [$0.45]
garrylaura calls [$0.45]
potrprol1 folds
Sotiresd folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ , , ]
RABUS78 checks
HERO bets [$0.10]
garrylaura raises to [$0.20]
RABUS78 calls [$0.20]
HERO raises to [$2.40]
garrylaura calls [$2.20]
RABUS78 folds
** Dealing Turn ** [ ]
HERO goes all-in
HERO bets [$7.90]
garrylaura calls [$7.90]
** Showdown **
garrylaura shows [ , ]
HERO shows [ , ]
** Dealing River ** [ ]
** Hand Conclusion **
garrylaura wins $21.28 from main pot with a straight, Ten to Six
************ Game 729712782 ends ************

[t1tpfdc]

Betting it all on an open-end draw ...
You may have lost that one but you can make a lotta £$€ off that dude!

Post flop bet 0.10 into a $1.50 pot???

[PaulRobinson]

Betting it all on an open-end draw ...
You may have lost that one but you can make a lotta £$€ off that dude!

Post flop bet 0.10 into a $1.50 pot???

Well spotted Arnie, yeah betting 10c into a $1.50 pot is not only bad, but a completely pointless bet, I mean you are giving odds away at 16-1, if you are going to bet anything it shoulfd be either a half pot, 3/4 pot, pot sized or double the pot, aggression is the key to take it down, if you want to milk it then bet half the pot, or my fave is the check raise.

[Reg]

Was the 10c bet a misclick?

I would just check/call down here. Taking a bet/3bet line is way overplaying your particular hand normally, as it totally over represents what you have, so you're unlikely to ever get action from worse, which means you're effectively turning your hand, that has good relative strength on this board into a bluff. However as the raiser just clicked it back, I guess it can't be terrible in this particular spot.

What would you have done had he raised a sensible amount, say to $1.75?

Now we have got to the turn, we probably have little option other than to shove as all draws have missed and we can still maybe get some value from flush draws.

The villain in this hand played it just about as bad as he possibly could by calling it off with a straight draw on a paired flushing board.

[Reg]

Well spotted Arnie, yeah betting 10c into a $1.50 pot is not only bad, but a completely pointless bet, I mean you are giving odds away at 16-1, if you are going to bet anything it shoulfd be either a half pot, 3/4 pot, pot sized or double the pot, aggression is the key to take it down, if you want to milk it then bet half the pot, or my fave is the check raise.

Sorry, just re-read this and I think check-raising here is absolutely the worst way to play this hand. When we check raise with 99 on this board, what do we want to happen? There is almost zero chance that a better hand folds and a very good chance that hands like A8 fold, or 77 etc which is pretty much a disaster for us as we have them crushed.