Set of 2s, any misplay here?

Stacks:
* BB with $88.30
* UTG with $11.75
* UTG+1 with $49.90
* MP1 with $44.80
* MP2 with $55.70
* MP3 with $37.40
* CO with $55.50
* BTN with $46.75
* SB with $61.20




Blinds: $0.00/$0.00
Site: full tilt poker
* * Dealt to MP2:2♥ 2♠
* * Sklansky group 7
Preflop:
* * 3 players fold.
* * Hero calls [$0.50]
* * 1 players fold.
* * CO calls [$0.50]
* * BTN calls [$0.50]
* * SB calls [$0.25]
* * BB checks
* * Total folds this street: 4
* * Potsize: $2.5
Flop:
* * 2♦ 3♠ A♥
* * SB bets [$2]
* * 1 players fold.
* * Hero calls [$2]
* * 2 players folded.
* * Total folds this street: 3
* * Potsize: $6.5
Turn:
* * 7♦
* * SB bets [$4.50]
* * 2 players fold.
* * Hero raises to $14
* * SB calls [$9.50]
* * Potsize: $34.5
River:
* * J♣
* * SB checks
* * Hero bets [$20.50]
* * SB calls [$20.50]
Results:


Should I have value bet this river? If so was $20 a good amount?

i'd usually just raise flop cause 8 outs can hurt your action on the turn, and raising turn looks a lot stronger than raising flop

turn is fine as played

clearly value bet river. i'd probably make it a little bigger, since he liked his hand enough to call your strong turn raise. looks like Ax and people don't like folding top pair, so i'd generally prefer like $24-26 on the end

i like everything u did.. looks great to me

combuboom said:

i'd usually just raise flop cause 8 outs can hurt your action on the turn, and raising turn looks a lot stronger than raising flop

turn is fine as played

clearly value bet river. i'd probably make it a little bigger, since he liked his hand enough to call your strong turn raise. looks like Ax and people don't like folding top pair, so i'd generally prefer like $24-26 on the end

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Took the words out of my mouth.

Smooth calling and waiting for the turn is such an obvious slowplay and you'll often get people folding their marginal hands a lot more often than if you just raise the flop which builds the pot a lot better anyways. So just raise the flop.

Thnx for the advice guys. I hope it's not too early but Ill just say the results now. He had 33 and won with a better set. I guess there's really no way to get away from this, even deep stacked right?

nah man, it's actually pretty unbelievable that he had a hand that beat you to begin with, but also that you didn't lose more. that guy blew it

Yeah , how does he not reraise all-in on the river? Lucky to get out of this hand with any $$ remaining because if either you or your opponent had played the hand correctly he would have taken everything you had.