Set vs. potential straight

[r8ed]

Villain was a little loose but I didn't see him show down many hands and he wasn't an overly aggressive or tricky player. I only bet 1/2 pot on the flop because there's very little chance this flop could help anyone and there are no draws. I bet 1/2 pot often when there is an uncoordinated flop after my pfr and I'm confident I can outplay the opp. I've been the most aggressive player at the table. I should just call here right? I don't want to open the betting back up because calling another bet doesn't seem like a good move. This isn't some crazy hand or decision, but when you get called down when ahead and a draw completes or the board pairs and you face river raise what do you usually do?

Also, is Seat 5 (brbBBQ) an FTR member? There was joke a post in the community a couple months ago. I wonder if somebody here used the name.

***** Hand History for Game 4063494018 *****
0/0 Texas Hold'em Game Table (NL) - Sun Apr 23 00:03:09 EDT 2006
Table Table 95793 (Real Money) -- Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: jandje ( $126.02)
Seat 2: depoy12 ( $31.30)
Seat 3: dbond007111 ( $98.90)
Seat 4: wsucoug02 ( $64.45)
Seat 5: brbBBQ ( $217)
Seat 6: ZiggyZC ( $182.10)
ZiggyZC posts small blind (0.50)
jandje posts big blind (1)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to jandje [ 7h, 7s ]
depoy12 folds.
dbond007111 calls (1)
wsucoug02 folds.
brbBBQ folds.
ZiggyZC folds.
jandje raises (4) to 5
dbond007111 calls (4)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 7d, 3h, Jc ]
jandje bets (5)
dbond007111 calls (5)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ Ts ]
jandje bets (15)
dbond007111 calls (15)
** Dealing River ** : [ 9c ]
jandje bets (20)
dbond007111 raises (40) to 40

[midas06]

brbBBQ is lambchop

[lambchopdc]

No, he's not. Its a figment of your imagination, forget it ever happened.

EDIT: I shove, he doesn't have much behind and u get a call from 2 pair here way too often. BTW...i pulled the hand up in PT and saw the results.....hahahahahahahahahaha I love fish

[lolzzz_321]

Looks like 36s to me, instacall.

[r8ed]

hehe. He's folding to any reraise anyway. My read changed somewhat after that hand. I was going to say something to you, but:
a) Figured if you were FTR, you would be multitabling
b) I didn't want to give away that we (you) aren't total fish

You just signed up for Party recently? I find that hard to believe.

[lambchopdc]

hehe. He's folding to any reraise anyway. My read changed somewhat after that hand.

He would have folded this hand, but I think you are missing out on value here by not pushing, there are tons of hands that call a push in this spot that you beat, and very few that have you beat the way the hand was played.

You just signed up for Party recently? I find that hard to believe.

If you go to the My Account page from Party you can change your screenname once every six months, I highly recommend this as it makes it harder for long term players to get reads on you.

[r8ed]

hehe. He's folding to any reraise anyway. My read changed somewhat after that hand.

He would have folded this hand, but I think you are missing out on value here by not pushing, there are tons of hands that call a push in this spot that you beat, and very few that have you beat the way the hand was played.

You just signed up for Party recently? I find that hard to believe.

If you go to the My Account page from Party you can change your screenname once every six months, I highly recommend this as it makes it harder for long term players to get reads on you.

When I looked back at the hand, I was fairly certain I should have reraised. They would have had to chase a gutshot and two pair is more likely. The reraise surprised me enough to just call.

I didn't know that about changing usernames - thanks. I might do that after a while at one level.

[bigred]

I think this may be an insant of counting to 10 before making a decision. Raise scares you and your instincts say call. As lamchop mentions, after analysis, you probably should have raised.