Okay, was this bet too big?

PokerStars Game #2442368392: Tournament #11852637, Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2005/08/28 - 12:20:27 (ET)
Table '11852637 1' Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: xSaYLx (1500 in chips)
Seat 2: yanmagic (1560 in chips)
Seat 3: lumberjax (1470 in chips)
Seat 4: smike21 (1560 in chips)
Seat 5: filyblunt (2075 in chips)
Seat 6: DasBoot (1470 in chips)
Seat 7: Prop-Movr (1420 in chips)
Seat 8: brooks47 (1065 in chips)
Seat 9: 9Skylar9 (1380 in chips)
9Skylar9: posts small blind 10
xSaYLx: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to xSaYLx [Qd Jh]
yanmagic: folds
lumberjax: folds
smike21: folds
filyblunt: folds
DasBoot: folds
Prop-Movr: folds
brooks47: calls 20
9Skylar9: folds
xSaYLx: checks
*** FLOP *** [Td 9s 8h]
xSaYLx: checks
brooks47: bets 100
xSaYLx: calls 100
*** TURN *** [Td 9s 8h] [7s]
xSaYLx: checks
brooks47: bets 150
xSaYLx: calls 150
*** RIVER *** [Td 9s 8h 7s] [Qh]
xSaYLx: bets 420
brooks47: calls 420
*** SHOW DOWN ***
xSaYLx: shows [Qd Jh] (a straight, Eight to Queen)
brooks47: mucks hand
xSaYLx collected 1390 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1390 | Rake 0
Board [Td 9s 8h 7s Qh]
Seat 1: xSaYLx (big blind) showed [Qd Jh] and won (1390) with a straight, Eight to Queen
Seat 2: yanmagic folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: lumberjax folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: smike21 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: filyblunt folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: DasBoot folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: Prop-Movr folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: brooks47 (button) mucked [As Th]
Seat 9: 9Skylar9 (small blind) folded before Flop


He called, but I gotta wonder what he thought I had.



I tried to make it look like I was trying to steal the pot, and I suppose it worked, but I made a huuuge bet.

If you get called, then the bet isn't too big imo. The queen on the river would have been a scare card for me. It seems like every time I flop a straight someone is drawing to a bigger straight that they hit on the river.

I wasn't worried about it the way he had been betting, it just seemed like i pushed too many chips out, and i got lucky he called.

Although It worked for you, I dont understand your check calling here. You had the nut straight on the flop. Why were you slow playing it? Unless he had trips, and at first level blinds, who knows what 100/150 bets meant, you had him well beat. I would have reraised at the turn personally, but I don't see that you did anything wrong. Hell, you might have been able to get him to call an All-in there- you had the nuts or at least a split. All-ins look more like "pot stealing" than large bets do to me generally.
Nice flop for you there Riha, share some of this luck!

yeah but the cards went cold soon after.


I ended up 4th, was short stacked with AT on the button, moved all in, BB called with TT

Since you were slow playing the straight, there is really no advantage for you if you just check/call the flop, check/call the turn and then just bet out the river. With slow playing, you need to check/raise there sometime. You should have check/raised the turn. Since this guy called that river bet with second pair and 4 to a straight, he probably would have called a raise on the turn, even with the open-ended straight draw on the board. I guess since you got the call, it was the right move, but with a slow play, you almost get nothing out of it with just a bet and no deceptive plays.

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