Flushy day... comments?

Guy just sat down.

Stage #220819918: Holdem No Limit $0.50 - 2005-11-07 15:00:28 (ET)
Table: CLEARWATER (Real Money) Seat #2 is the dealer
Seat 2 - DWWG ($103.30 in chips)
Seat 5 - BUNTYMCCRUMP ($244.24 in chips)
Seat 6 - THE CAVE ($124.40 in chips)
Seat 7 - F1NKY ($24.20 in chips)
Seat 8 - FINMASTER ($36.50 in chips)
Seat 9 - _DH_ ($100 in chips)
Seat 1 - OSIDE KID ($197.70 in chips)
BUNTYMCCRUMP - Posts small blind $0.50
THE CAVE - Posts big blind $1
_DH_ - Posts $1
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to BUNTYMCCRUMP [Qh Ad]
F1NKY - Folds
FINMASTER - Folds
_DH_ - Checks
OSIDE KID - Folds
DWWG - Folds
BUNTYMCCRUMP - Raises $4 to $4.50
THE CAVE - Folds
_DH_ - Calls $3.50
*** FLOP *** [Ac 3c 7h]
BUNTYMCCRUMP - Bets $7
_DH_ - Calls $7
*** TURN *** [Ac 3c 7h] [10s]
BUNTYMCCRUMP - Bets $15
_DH_ - Calls $15
*** RIVER *** [Ac 3c 7h 10s] [7c]
BUNTYMCCRUMP - Bets $15
_DH_ - All-In(Raise) $73.50 to $73.50
BUNTYMCCRUMP - Folds

This seems to be the way of the day... should I have bet any of those streets harder? Guy took my money and left right afterwards. Jerkhole.

This is a weird and weak question, but did my river bet actually have a purpose there? Looking at it, I'm leaning towards a fold here as the pot is around $50, and I don't want to put anymore than $15 into that. I could have gotten bluffed out on this one.

Meh. I play it a big different, but meh.

Please elaborate.

$3 pre-flop. 1/2-3/4 pot on the flop (maybe check), 1/2 pot the turn. Either check or repeat bet the river.

There is ambiguity there by design because I like to give the same hand different looks. Bottom line here, it that I have a hand with showdown value but I don't want to play a big pot and I'm out of position to boot. I want to put the betting in a context where my opponents will have trouble putting me in a difficult spot.

My line was close to yours, just pricier and that made it more difficult on the river. I bet 3/4 on the flop to make it hard for flush draws to come along, and then 2/3 on the turn for the same reason.

Am I overvaluing the lack of information that keeping my preflop raises consistent puts out? I don't think I deviate from my PFR amount much at all when I get a good value for a given table. Same kind of deal with my c-bets, although they do vary from 2/3 to near full pots. I bet the same amount when I hit a strong hand as well. Somehow leaving my table standard (for this table) of $4 to a $3 PFR seems wrong somehow.

Lowering my PFR to $3 and taking the aggressive side of FNord's line, the pot would have cost me less:

$3 PFR bet ($6.50)
$4 flop bet ($14.50)
$8 turn bet ($30.50)
$8 river bet ($46.50 with a call)

So it would have only cost me $23 not $41.