Quote Originally Posted by Anosmic
Had something similar this evening. Was multi-tabling and almost timed out on the flop, hence the sucky minraise.
How many tables were you at when you almost timed out? Dont play too many tables when you are just starting out, its much more important to work on grasping the fundamentals and developing your play than trying to play more tables.

***** Hand History for Game 4100077218 *****
$5 NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, April 26, 16:17:47 ET 2006
Table Beginners #1240618 (Real Money)
Seat 10 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: alan01_19 ( $4.04 )
Seat 3: ymene1 ( $4.84 )
Seat 4: Nsebuga ( $4.67 )
Seat 5: ContinoS ( $5.19 )
Seat 6: BLUFFER_MEXX ( $6.18 )
Seat 7: Doublfish ( $5.24 )
Seat 9: RS__Jack ( $10.31 )
Seat 10: pald99640 ( $4.83 )
Seat 8: XenoXX4 ( $3.60 )
Seat 2: AnosmicAK ( $4.96 )
alan01_19 posts small blind [$0.02].
AnosmicAK posts big blind [$0.04].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to AnosmicAK [ Ts Jd ]
>You have options at Beginners #1240623 Table!.
ymene1 calls [$0.04].
Nsebuga folds.
ContinoS folds.
BLUFFER_MEXX folds.
Doublfish calls [$0.04].
XenoXX4 folds.
RS__Jack calls [$0.04].
pald99640 calls [$0.04].
alan01_19 calls [$0.02].
AnosmicAK checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ Td, Qd, Js ]
alan01_19 bets [$0.04].
AnosmicAK raises [$0.08].
ymene1 calls [$0.08].
Doublfish calls [$0.08].
RS__Jack calls [$0.08].
pald99640 folds.
alan01_19 calls [$0.04].
Even if you are almost timing out, take a split second to move the slider to a potsized raise. On a draw heavy board like this you need to be raising to the size of the pot, everybody in this hand is getting odds to make a flush, straight, etc.

** Dealing Turn ** [ 3h ]
alan01_19 checks.
AnosmicAK bets [$1].
ymene1 folds.
Doublfish folds.
RS__Jack folds.
alan01_19 calls [$1].
Im not sure what the pot is, but this bet seems better. Run your hands through a converter, that makes them much easier to analyze

** Dealing River ** [ 4s ]
alan01_19 checks.
AnosmicAK bets [$1].
alan01_19 calls [$1].
AnosmicAK shows [ Ts, Jd ] two pairs, jacks and tens.
alan01_19 shows [ 9h, 8s ] a straight, eight to queen.
alan01_19 wins $4.44 from the main pot with a straight, eight to queen.
As played I think you either should be checking behind or making a little bigger bet for value. You bet $1 on the turn, and then on the river with a bigger pot you make the same bet.