25 NL trip tens

villian and I have only played 1 significant hand against each other, blind vs blind. he limps my BB check 9/10. flop comes out 994. he checks and i check behind. turn puts a flush draw out there and i bet half the pot, he calls. river bricks and now he leads for the pot, i raise 4x pot, he min-re-raises me and I call, he flips 96 and i take the whole pot. anyway, here is the hand, what are your thoughts?


pokerstars Game #7155672240: Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2006/11/24 - 14:04:45 (ET)
Table 'Euryalos IV' 6-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Freddy Blade ($24.95 in chips)
Seat 2: mj23lbj111 ($47 in chips)
Seat 3: iheartpoon ($93.85 in chips)
Seat 4: Clint3200 ($22.20 in chips)
Seat 5: teamcanada88 ($28.10 in chips)
Seat 6: gunnien ($9.90 in chips)
iheartpoon: posts small blind $0.10
Clint3200: posts big blind $0.25
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to mj23lbj111 [9h Th]
teamcanada88: folds
gunnien: folds
Freddy Blade: calls $0.25
mj23lbj111: raises $0.75 to $1
iheartpoon: folds
Clint3200: folds
Freddy Blade: calls $0.75
*** FLOP *** [Qc Td 5d]
Freddy Blade: bets $0.50
mj23lbj111: calls $0.50
*** TURN *** [Qc Td 5d] [Tc]
Freddy Blade: checks
mj23lbj111: bets $2.50
Freddy Blade: calls $2.50
*** RIVER *** [Qc Td 5d Tc] [6d]
Freddy Blade: bets $5

Maybe he has a flush? But I think there's sufficient doubt for you to call his bet. There's $7 in the pot already so you only need to win this 42% of the time. A good player with just a flush draw would fold it on the turn. Otherwise he'd have to have something like T5 or T6 to beat you. I'd call and expect to lose to a flush half the time.

Smellls like a flush. Bet the flop with 2 diamonds. Check/called the turn when a diamond didn't hit, then bet out when a diamond came on the river. Pretty weird betting pattern for anything else.

He's definately played it like a made draw. Given the previous hand with him you have to give him credit for a big hand.

That said, what is his flop bet about? 50c into a $2.10 pot. If he's semi-bluffing wouldn't he bet a bit bigger?

yeah, i folded, because of the previous hand where he lead out his trip 9's on the river, and his line smelled just like a flush draw