Did I play this too aggressively...? Obviously yes, as I scared him off... But, what do you guys think would've been a better line here...?

***** Hand History for Game 2758569411 *****
$50 NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, September 22, 22:32:15 EDT 2005
Table Table 36854 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: Switzerland ( $20.65 )
Seat 4: Harry_D ( $125.30 )
Seat 5: mrjet823 ( $45.14 )
Seat 6: MVPSPORTS2 ( $61.85 )
Seat 7: ThsIsTheYear ( $45.60 )
Seat 8: midnight1966 ( $127.60 )
Seat 3: SilvaMage ( $47 )
Seat 2: illskillz712 ( $72.52 )
Seat 9: Donfire ( $47 )
Seat 10: cardgirlWA ( $50 )
Donfire posts small blind [$0.25].
>You have options at Table 36922 Table!.
>You have options at Table 36544 Table!.
cardgirlWA posts big blind [$0.50].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to MVPSPORTS2
Switzerland folds.
illskillz712 folds.
SilvaMage folds.
Harry_D calls [$0.50].
mrjet823 calls [$0.50].
MVPSPORTS2 calls [$0.50].
ThsIsTheYear folds.
midnight1966 calls [$0.50].
Donfire calls [$0.25].
cardgirlWA checks.
** Dealing Flop **
Donfire checks.
cardgirlWA checks.
Harry_D checks.
mrjet823 checks.
MVPSPORTS2 bets [$3].
midnight1966 calls [$3].
Donfire folds.
cardgirlWA folds.
Harry_D calls [$3].
mrjet823 calls [$3].
** Dealing Turn **
Harry_D bets [$3].
mrjet823 folds.
MVPSPORTS2 raises [$8].
midnight1966 folds.
Harry_D folds.
MVPSPORTS2 does not show cards.
MVPSPORTS2 wins $24.95
Switzerland has left the table.

I probably just call the turn as you're way ahead here and the only river card that would scare you is another 3 or 7. If either of them is on a flush draw and another diamond hits the river you have a good chance of getting paid off quite well too.

i don't think there's anything wrong w/ the mini-raise. the pot is what, $15, genius in mp bets $3, you raised to $8. hardly a huge raise; a flush draw (which there may be 3 of) can still call that.

and raising gives you a chance to win a huge pot. i mean, i can definitely imagine it then going: call $8, call $8, call $5, and you've got a ~$50 pot against 3 opponents with still one round of betting to go. if the bet was like $6, i would probably smooth call. but $3 is just too little.

Gotta raise it. He's betting into you, if he has a draw make him pay a little more to see it but not too much. It's hard to put him on a hand where his play makes sense. Maybe a weak overpair? If he has like 99, you want him to pay to see the next card because if he catches he can beat you and that'll be expensive.

I just call that turn but perhaps for a different reason.

I'm going to call that turn a lot of time with not so great a hand, and I might pop an opponent who leads weak on the river.

Here I'm going to of course pop him on the river and it'll give my later steal attempts more credibility.

Tim

90% of the time I will play it like this, raising the turn. So many morons with AA/KK will think you're bluffing them and even push all in. You can just call to vary your play, to use the rope-a-dope strategy, but that's the only reason. The fact that you folded doesn't mean you did anything wrong there.