Is this hand well played? $50NL 6max

[gui166]

Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.25/$0.50
6 players
Converter (http://www.neildewhurst.com/hand-converter)

Stack sizes:
Hero: $110.85
UTG+1: $10.05
CO: $48.50
Button: $45.55
SB: $57.55
BB: $43.85

Pre-flop: (6 players) Hero is UTG with A/images/graemlins/club.gif Q/images/graemlins/heart.gif
<font color="#cc0000">Hero raises to $1.75</font>, 2 folds, Button calls, 2 folds.

Flop: 6/images/graemlins/club.gif 2/images/graemlins/spade.gif A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif ($4.25, 2 players)
<font color="#cc0000">Hero bets $3</font>, Button calls.

Turn: 9/images/graemlins/spade.gif ($10.25, 2 players)
<font color="#cc0000">Hero bets $7</font>, Button calls.

River: 9/images/graemlins/diamond.gif ($24.25, 2 players)
<font color="#cc0000">Hero bets $14</font>, <font color="#cc0000">Button raises all-in $33.8</font>, Hero folds.

is it well played? should I call river?

[CaptUnlucky]

Maybe bet a little more on the flop, closer to pot.

Other than that, looks good to me

[Gelford]

20$ into a 72$ pot ... I'd need a very strong read to lay it down here, I guess.

If I was scared here and into potcontrol on river, then to me checking with the intention of calling a small bet and folding to a big bet seems better ... a very read dependent hand.

[gui166]

Gelford, I couldn't see he pushing with a hand that I beat. I bet the river trying to extract from an TP with lower kicker but I don't think that he'd push a hand like AJ there...

[Gelford]

It is hard to say without any read .... though spot, I dunno ... is anybody else advocating a check/call - check/fold on the river here instead of the blocking bet approach ??


There is nothing wrong with your reasoning it seems, it is just that I personally have a hard time laying hands down getting almost 4-1 potodds.