Gimpy bets

[AshleyC]

What do you make of these gimpy bets? As I had the gutshot, I jsut called here. If I'm the pre-flop aggressor and the hand is HU, I usually raise, so in this case I would have raised the flop bet to about $2.50. Is this a case of the player usually wanting to draw cheap? In this case the player had 44. I called the river, for information and also as he may have been on a missed flush draw.


Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.25/$0.50
6 players
Converter


Stack sizes:
UTG: $59.95
UTG+1: $51.15
CO: $17.65
Hero: $101.05
SB: $15.60
BB: $52.40


Pre-flop: (6 players) Hero is Button with J /images/graemlins/spade.gif A /images/graemlins/diamond.gif
3 folds, Hero raises to $1.75, SB calls, BB folds.


Flop: K /images/graemlins/diamond.gif 5 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif T /images/graemlins/club.gif ($4, 2 players)
SB bets $0.5, Hero calls.


Turn: 9 /images/graemlins/spade.gif ($5, 2 players)
SB bets $0.5, Hero calls.


River: 8 /images/graemlins/heart.gif ($6, 2 players)
SB bets $0.5, Hero calls.


Results:
Final pot: $7

[Djeorge]

Without being results orientated, I often at least raise on the flop here. In my experience, villain's fold the vast majority of the time after making a min-donkbet into the pfr facing a raise, and a near pot-sized raise usually gives them all the encouragement they need. So on the flop I likely would have raised to ~$4.