Was this too aggressive of a semi-bluff?

[mcpeepants]

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (6 handed) converter

Hero ($25)
Button ($17.40)
SB ($7)
BB ($11.45)
UTG ($8.55)
MP ($12.75)

Preflop: Hero is CO with 8, 9. Hero posts a blind of $0.25.
UTG calls $0.25, 1 fold, Hero (poster) checks, 1 fold, SB completes, BB checks.

Flop: ($1) 7, 9, T (4 players)
SB bets $0.75, BB calls $0.75, UTG folds, Hero raises to $2.5, SB calls $1.75, BB calls $1.75.

Turn: ($8.50) 5 (3 players)
SB checks, BB bets $0.25, Hero raises to $4, SB raises to $4.25, BB folds, Hero calls $0.25.

River: ($17.25) J (2 players)

Final Pot: $17.25
Main Pot: $17.25, between Hero and SB.

[a500lbgorilla]

You can never get too aggressive with an OESFD + a pair.

-'rilla

[ensign_lee]

Not aggressive enough.
You've got a bazillion cards to come that can do nothing BUT help you. Bet, raise, reraise, reraise, reraise...

Good plays, my boy.

[JeffreyGB]

The only way he could do more is to push the flop...which wouldn't be bad, but I think this works too.

Did SB have 55 or 86?

Edit: wtf was I thinking? 86 makes no sense...the 5 wouldn't have helped - he'd have flopped it.

[mcpeepants]

TT, actually.

[JeffreyGB]

Ah, the clever slow play. Because clearly 99 and 77 would have folded on the flop.

[mcpeepants]

Yes, UTG had 99 and didn't hesitate to fold. Silly SB!

[richardwe]

was he holding the Tc btw?

[mcpeepants]

Tc was on the board

[H Dogg]

Yeah those are the type of hands I love to see people push against me, because if they think im on JUST a flush draw there are so wrong. It's funny...I try to play flush draws like nuts and nuts like flush draws, until the river of course.