Beefore I played poker, I played chess, and I had a chess coach, who taught me to record mistakes after a game to help me remember the mistake so as not to keep repeating it.  His theory on improvement is doing one of two things: adding a positive to your game or removing a negative.  This process is one to help remove negatives.  

I was in the BB at 100/200, my stack was the effective stack at just under 10k.  The cutoff in this hand was not that bad of a player, but a little loose.

It was a multi-way limped pot and I had Ts9s.

Flop (pot t1,000): 7h 8d 3h – SB checks, I check, EP check, MP check, Cutoff bets 500, SB folds, I call, 2 folds.

Turn (pot 2,000): Kh – I check, Cutoff bets 1200, I call.

River (pot 4,200): 6s – I check (I was going to lead here to try to get value, but the cutoff was already reaching for chips and cutting off a bet from his stack), cutoff bets 2,000, I raise all in for about 7,900.  

Now the problem I have with this bet, is this:  how many worse hands can call me and no flushes are likely to fold unless he has a really small flush.  This bet has little value if any.  This bet looks suspicously like a flush, so only flushes are calling.  Next time in this situation, the best play is probably to just call.  

Lucky for me, he did call and tabled 77.  This was probably a bad call on his part, as with this board, all he can beat are my bluffs.