Question about a play I made on $25 NL table on Hollywood Poker.

I'm in late positon w/ KQ. I raise 4xbb to $1, get two callers. Flop comes down J10X. EP player makes a small bet, maybe .50, I call and other player calls. Turn is a K, so now I have top pair and an open-ended straight draw. EP bets $1 into a roughly $5 pot. He's only got $5 left, so I raise him all in. The other player folds and EP calls.

The result, a 9 came on the river and I won w/ my straight.

My question is, was that a smart play? An argument can be made that all I really had was a draw (I didn't know if my top pair was good), and since he didn't have a lot of chips left (and he was pot committed) I was risking a lot (relitively speaking) compared to what I could gain. If he had a deep chip-stack I think it would be a great play, but I really had little to gain. What does everyone else think?

If you hate betting out with top pair second kicker and OESD, you probably hate money too.

That's an easy play.

The big mistake here was just calling on the flop. That's weak/tight.

You are the pre-flop aggressor, and you flopped an OESD and overcards. Raise this for value.

With a little over $3 in the pot pre-flop, the EP bet of $.50 in this hand is laughable. Raise it up to about $3 or so on the flop.

Yes.

You gotta learn continuation bets in no limit. And this isn't even a bluff on your part by raising the flop. You have a damn strong hand, two overs and a open end. Being against a short stack, even if he pushes all in there, you can bet you are going to call with two cards to come.

Be more aggressive :-)