danc1984

Yeah, Zach is definately 100% correct, no way should you raise this river. Definately call as played but as has already been stated you should have reraised preflop and definately have raised on the flop. You definately want to get it all in on that flop with a preflop raiser at these limits if possible.

No idea what Phil had in this hand. I mean, what hand could he hold that needed a J that couldn't beat 9s full?

I don't pretend to be any good at the game but that guy is horrible. And calling the flop and turn bets with a pair of 9s considering the board and the action just seems like a poor play to me. I can't see how it would win you money in the long-term. This time you caught him making a ridiculous move, but surely 9 times out of 10 the villain will have at the very worst a strong ace or better pocket pair here.

I can see how him flipping over that hand would really annoy you after you made the river bet thinking there was a fair chance you were ahead. But I don't think that you need to analyse your game just because your opponent in this particular hand doesn't seem to understand that a set of aces is a reasonably strong hand.

He played the aces absolutely terribly.