I'm baaaaaaaack

[BalugaWhale]

After a great vacation, lots of tequila and some beautiful women, I'm back at the table. 6-max is where I'm at now, and it feels much more natural, although I haven't played many hands yet. I'm really focusing on hand reading, and I feel like this hand is one situation I find myself in a lot. My biggest question is that I feel awkward on the turn here. It seems like a scared value bet, which seems intrinsically wrong to me. I should be value betting when I know I'm ahead, and here, i certainly don't know that.

Party Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.10/$0.25
5 players
Converter

Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is SB with 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
UTG, folds, CO (poster) checks, Button folds, Hero calls $0.15, BB (poster) checks.

Flop: 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] ($0.75, 3 players)
<font color="#cc3333">Hero bets $1</font>, BB folds, CO calls $1.

Turn: 4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] ($2.75, 2 players)
<font color="#cc3333">Hero bets $2</font>, CO calls $2.

River: 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] ($6.75, 2 players)
Hero checks, CO checks.

Results:
Final pot: $6.75

Anybody raise pf here?


BTW, I cleaned up in the little poker games we played in our hotel over the vacation, so that made me feel a little better [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]