A hand cropped up the other night that I think I screwed up - at the time I thought I was doing the right thing, but remember being quite impulsive and not really thinking for too long.

It was on VC Poker (0.10/0.20) NL 6-Max and I was on the button with 9d9s

Me $17
SB $56

There were a couple of limpers and I limped as well. The player to my left (SB) was very aggressive, but not a maniac. He always seemed to show down a reasonable hand, but was raising it up to $1.80 with any starting hand he wanted to play.

The SB raised it up to $1.80 as usual and it folds round to me.

At this point my thinking was it's costing me $1.60 extra for a 7.5-1 chance of flopping my set that I believed would double my stack. Is my thinking flawed here?

The flop comes 9 T Q rainbow

The SB leads out with a $3 bet - my thinking now was that he either had an overpair or JJ. I felt that if he had the straight he would have checked.

I pushed approx $15

Have I played it bad - was the push too impulsive?

push looks fine to me.. if hes playing AK or KQ or JJ or AJ u dont want to give him that free card to draw out on your set.. definately not a flop to slow play a set..

what is you sign on name, I play that limit alot on teh same sight, same username as on here ;-)

Against the very aggressive player you have to be counter aggressive if he has the straight thats bad luck but you still have alot of outs to the FH.

If he is raising that much preflop with JK then he really sucks. 1010 would be VUL for you as would QQ. more likely AA KK or AK AQ.

I don't mind the push at all. WP, regardless of the outcome.

the push is fine, if you raise any other ammount you dont have enough to protect your hand on the turn.

and if you have correctly percieved him as an agressive, almost maniac like player, the call preflop is great. and look, you have position on him as well. you might not even need the set.

personally, i think you played some pretty good poker.

Thanks again for your responses.

The guy called and turned over KJo, but unfortunately the board didn't pair on the turn or the river. As Keefter says his pre-flop raise was awful, but he played on his image of very aggressive and lead out when he had the nuts. This caused me to push, but I think It was inevitable that all my chips were going in at some point. It's hard for me to fold a set against an aggressive player.