2/5 Hand---Really Bad?

[MichaelOar]

I play limit 99% of the time, but I let two of my buddies talk me into playing a 2/5 blind NL game.

At the start of this hand, I have $800 and my opponent has $450.

3 guys limp, and I limp on the button with KQo. Blinds play too.

Flop is K 4 2 rainbow.

The blinds check to the second limper (this is his 3rd or 4th hand at the table--I have no real read, but the guy is a mid-40's white dude with a beer belly, sunglasses and a harley-davidson muscle t-shirt . . . ), who makes it $20. One guy calls, I ponder a raise, but ultimately decide that I would probably do well to keep the pot small. I call.

Turn is a K. Board is completely rainbowed now. The Harley guy now fires $75 into the pot. The flop-caller folds and the action is on me.

My thoughts here--
1. I don't think he flopped a set, as he just doesn't look like the type of guy who would bet a set in that spot--I figured he would try to trap if he had.
2. There are no real draws out there, so I figure he must have a made hand.
3. If he has K4 or K2, I'm in deep [censored], but I discount these hands based on the reasoning in #1.
4. If he has a worse king, he may lay it down if I jam.

I decide to just call, with the intention of calling any bet on the river and value betting if it is checked to me.

River is a Ten, and my opponent almost instantly moves in for $280. I take my time, think through the hand again, tip the cocktail waitress, and call. He says, "You win." I say, "then muck your hand." He apparently thinks there is a glimmer of hope that he is best, and tables 53o, and I take it down.

So, did I play this like a donk or what?
Thanks,

Michael

[berserk]

Looks fine, you dont need to raise anywhere there.

[GoblinMason (Craig)]

I think you played it very well. (I'm a limit player at heart to, so I know the thoughts going through your head. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]) It's pretty much a WA/WB situation. In NL, if you were to stick in a raise somewhere, you're only getting more action from hands that probably beat you. While you're likely ahead, it's not like in limit, where you can still get to SD cheaply if he gives excess action.

-Craig

[GoblinMason (Craig)]

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He apparently thinks there is a glimmer of hope that he can chop, and tables the NUT LOW

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