2nd situation

[slicer65]

This one the BB tended to bet on straight draws and the other guy was a calling station and only raised with a made hand. Does anybody see any problems with this play?

Party Poker 0.50/1.00 Hold'em <font color="#0000FF">(10 handed)</font> link

Preflop: calikid96 is SB with 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, MP2 calls, <font color="#666666">1 folds</font>, CO calls, Button calls, calikid96 completes, BB checks.

Flop: (5.00 SB) J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(5 players)</font>
calikid96 checks, <font color="#CC3333">BB bets</font>, MP2 calls, CO calls, Button calls, <font color="#CC3333">calikid96 raises</font>, <font color="#CC3333">BB 3-bets</font>, MP2 folds, CO calls, Button folds, calikid96 calls.

Turn: (8.00 BB) 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">calikid96 bets</font>, BB calls, CO calls.

River: (11.00 BB) 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">calikid96 bets</font>, BB folds, CO calls.

[jrz1972]

Bet the flop. Checking sucks. Top two is nice and all, but this is a very threatening board for your hand, you don't know where the bet (if any) is coming from, and you need to get your bets in now while you can.

If you knew that somebody in late position would bet this (if button had raised preflop, for instance), then check-raising would be good. Here its just FPS.