some good (and some very bad) play

Had another session Wednesday night (I'm trying to play as much as possible at the moment), and again I was amazed at how often people will surrender their hands to a bet. Looking back through my hand history, all but two of the hands that I won are by the opponent folding. I even stole a hand at the river when I couldn't even beat the board! (the five community cards were all better than my two).
By playing like this, I've moved from basically dribbling away blinds until I make a good hand, to actually slowly increasing my stack. I won't lie and say that I was making a huge profit, but given that that was achieved generally while holding nothing more than a high card or 2nd pair and a handful of unlikely outs, often less, it's quite heartening.
Sadly, I decided to throw the modest profit I'd made and about half my original stack away with an absolutely awfully played hand. I really have no excuses for how I played it, it was terrible, terrible play. If not for me getting lucky with a straight draw towards the end of the session, I would have ended it around $2.50 down. My folly, and the redeeming straight, are shown below:

#Game No : 6301371362
***** Hand History for Game 6301371362 *****
$5 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, September 05, 16:07:45 ET 2007
Table Table 131166 (Real Money)
Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 9: Westmalle69 ( $5.60 USD )
Seat 6: e_r_c ( $5.06 USD )
Seat 8: ankass ( $2.70 USD )
Seat 10: pimsous ( $5.04 USD )
Seat 7: Laribum78 ( $1.92 USD )
Seat 2: danidash88 ( $3.34 USD )
Seat 3: kostmann ( $4.66 USD )
Seat 4: Zwabber777 ( $5.97 USD )
Seat 5: jole48 ( $2.21 USD )
Seat 1: thed4rk1982 ( $5.94 USD )
pimsous posts small blind [$0.02 USD].
thed4rk1982 posts big blind [$0.04 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to e_r_c [ Th Ts ]
danidash88 calls [$0.04 USD]
kostmann folds
Zwabber777 folds
jole48 folds
e_r_c raises [$0.16 USD]
Laribum78 folds
ankass folds
Westmalle69 folds
pimsous raises [$0.42 USD]
thed4rk1982 folds
danidash88 folds
e_r_c calls [$0.28 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9h, 3c, 4d ]
pimsous bets [$1.04 USD]
e_r_c raises [$2.08 USD]
pimsous is all-In [$3.56 USD]
e_r_c folds
pimsous does not show cards.
pimsous wins $7.39 USD

I really can't justify my actions, or even point to what I was attempting in that hand. It should have been obvious that he had a big pair or AK and wasn't going to drop it to a push. When no Ten hit on the flush I should have just folded. Instead I decided to donate him $2 for no appreciable reason.


#Game No : 6301404072
***** Hand History for Game 6301404072 *****
$5 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, September 05, 16:15:12 ET 2007
Table Table 131166 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 9: Westmalle69 ( $5.36 USD )
Seat 6: e_r_c ( $2.38 USD )
Seat 8: ankass ( $2.64 USD )
Seat 10: pimsous ( $7.23 USD )
Seat 2: danidash88 ( $5.79 USD )
Seat 3: kostmann ( $4.60 USD )
Seat 4: Zwabber777 ( $5.79 USD )
Seat 5: jole48 ( $2.29 USD )
Seat 1: thed4rk1982 ( $5.88 USD )
Westmalle69 posts small blind [$0.02 USD].
pimsous is sitting out
thed4rk1982 posts big blind [$0.04 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to e_r_c [ Qs Ts ]
pimsous has left the table.
danidash88 folds
kostmann folds
Zwabber777 folds
jole48 folds
e_r_c calls [$0.04 USD]
ankass folds
Westmalle69 calls [$0.02 USD]
thed4rk1982 checks
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kc, 3s, 2h ]
Westmalle69 checks
thed4rk1982 bets [$0.12 USD]
e_r_c calls [$0.12 USD]
Westmalle69 calls [$0.12 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Jh ]
Westmalle69 bets [$0.30 USD]
thed4rk1982 calls [$0.30 USD]
e_r_c calls [$0.30 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ As ]
Westmalle69 checks
thed4rk1982 checks
e_r_c is all-In [$1.92 USD]
Westmalle69 folds
thed4rk1982 calls [$1.92 USD]
thed4rk1982 shows [ Ah, 5d ]a pair of Aces.
e_r_c shows [ Qs, Ts ]a straight Ten to Ace.
e_r_c wins $4.96 USD from the main pot with a straight, Ten to Ace.

So, I didn't really have too much at the flop, basically anything would have been runner, runner (straight,flush, or a pair or combination of Queens/Tens) but I called it thinking I'd see if anything helped the flush/straight draws. The Jack on the turn nixed the flush draw, but gave me an open-ended straight draw on any Ace or Nine. The pot odds probably didn't justify calling the turn bet, but I reckoned I was gonna push all-in if I hit and it would probably look like a steal attempt. In came the Ace, I moved in and took a rather nice pot, to the amazement of the other two players.