How do You play this hand?

[Ugly Ed]

You semi bluff to steal the pot while hoping for the nut flush or just call to draw the flush? I started with a little larger than pot size bet. Then also drew a gut shot nut str8 on the turn. Where you go from here? What size bets you make? Or do you check/call from here? No reads just sat down.


Table "Abuta (5 max)" (real money) -- Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: alepale76 ($62.95 in chips)
Seat 2: creepytrob ($29.50 in chips)
Seat 3: Ugly Ed ($47.75 in chips)
Seat 4: Dubbelnisse ($44.80 in chips)
Seat 5: vizquel ($66.95 in chips)
creepytrob: Post Small Blind ($0.25)
Ugly Ed : Post Big Blind ($0.50)
Dealing...
Dealt to Ugly Ed [ 5s ]
Dealt to Ugly Ed [ Ks ]
Dubbelnisse: Call ($0.50)
vizquel : Call ($0.50)
alepale76: Call ($0.50)
creepytrob: Fold
Ugly Ed : Check
*** FLOP *** : [ 8s Td As ]
Ugly Ed : Bet ($2.50)
Dubbelnisse: Call ($2.50)
vizquel : Fold
alepale76: Fold
*** TURN *** : [ 8s Td As ] [ Qh ]

[Fnord]

{ moved to short-handed }

Sometimes I bet, often I check. Depends on what I think of the caller. You just can't be playing 5 handed against 4 unknowns...

[gabe]

i bet again. check/calling seems transparent and won't get you paid off much. i dont think a bet by you will get raised because they didn't raise the flop which had so many draws in it, so you aren't worried about getting blown off your hand.