Advice on play pleeeease

[mrmuzeman]

Ok just lost 2 whole stacks on the cash game tables in half an hour and wanted advice on my play. 0.25/0.50 no limit I held 33 and limped in with a few others Flop came 9d 9c 3d Bingo bango bongo a full house :nana Pot was $4, I bet $2. Got 2 callers. I thought flush draw hopefully. Turn 4s No danger there then. Pot was $10, I bet $4 hopefully inviting the flush draw in. They both called. River was a Jc Okay slight alarm bells with the Jack. I thought please not someone with a J9. Pot was $22, I bet $10. First guy goes all in for $24 raise, the second player calls! :unsure I called the extra $24 cos the pot was huge but feeling pretty wrong about it. Lo and behold a J9. Now I know this guy did absolutely nothing wrong here but was I unlucky or were my bets too weak? I just really wanted to draw them in cos I thought my hand was so strong.

[dave]

Re: Advice on play pleeeease Difficult one there, but you probably should have folded (easy to say now I know). You said yourself that you were worried by J9. The fact that your worry was followed up with a big bet from one player and a call from the other has to suggest to you that your initial instinct is correct. As someone quoted Jezza during the freeroll tonight "Don't let curiosity kill the stack." Not easy to lay down a flopped full house, but if you believe you are beaten (and it seems that you did) then the fold is the correct, and a very good play.