Bad play or Bad beat?

[GlenTL]

I play in a live poker tourney each month at a lodge type organization for the local high school sports. There are 225 people max allowed. For $35 you get food, drink & 245 units worth of chips. You can deal 5 draw, 5,6,7 stud and 'holdem. By far Texas Holdem if the favorite by most. The tourney starts at 8pm and ends promptly at midnight. At midnight the chips are counted and they pay out 10 places. It's just over $2000 for 1st, $1000 for 2nd, $500 for 3rd and so on with 10th place paying only $50.
The limits and antes go up like this: 8pm-9pm 1/5, 9pm-10pm 5/10, 10pm-11pm 10/20, 11pm-12am 20/no limit. I have a blast and I wish they held this tournament once a week! I always make it to the final hour, sometimes with a pile of chips and sometimes with a short stack.

This last tournament, I had 1,400 worth of chips at about 11:35pm. Usually it takes about 2,000 to place with about 4-5,000 to win 1st prize. I had the biggest stack at my table. Someone opened with a 100 bet. Everyone folded. I had Qc9s and I thought what the heck, I'll see the flop for 100. So it was just me and the opener. The flop came As,9h,3s. I had to act next because in the rules for holdem there the same person never opens twice in a row. So I opened for 100. He just called so I put him on a draw of some kind. The turn comes. It's a Qs! Beautiful! I've got 2 pair and a spade flush draw. He checks to me so without hesitation, I went all in. He sat and thought for a while and looked at his 800 in chips and decided to call me. We turn over our hands and I show my 2 pair. He turns over Ks6c. He has the nut flush draw. Only a spade can kill me. Here comes the river. It's a 4 of spades. OUCH!

Should I have played this differently? I had huge odds to win at the river but he out drew me. I'm thinking I should have bet more than 100 after the flop? Anyways, he went on to win 6th place and I was beat out of he tourney a few hands later.

[ballbp]

Sounds to me like it was just a bad beat. With nothing but two 9's after the flop I wouldn't go "all in" so the small bet seemed right to test the waters so to speak. He was the one that had no business staying in that pot. When you hit the two pair going "all in" was the best thing to do and again he had no business staying in. He got lucky but these things happen.

[BrianGre]

I agree... just a situation where he knew he was out soon anyway so why not take the chance...