Message Board : Bottom two pair

I had a tough hand recently that I probably misplayed.  Interested to get others’ reactions.

It was a home game, 1-2 NL cash.  In the hand in question, effective stack sizes were about $400.  A laggy early position player raised to $7, an aggressive and somewhat loose player in middle position called, and I called from a blind with 45s.  My image is generally tight.  Pot is $22 now.

The flop came 45T rainbow giving me bottom two pair.  I checked, EP led out for $20 and MP raised to $80.  MP loves to semibluff with draws, but he generally doesn’t raise with air.  I put him on either an OESD or a strong made hand (how strong exactly I don’t really know).

I didn’t really know what to do here.  I felt like any raise would pot commit me, and that my opponents would play perfectly in response - they would fold any hand that I beat, and call any hand that I was behind.  I elected to just call, intending to lead out on a safe turn.  EP folded.  Pot is $202.

Unfortunately, the turn was a 3 - 67 was a hand I thought quite consistent with MP’s play given his fondness for semibluffs.  So I checked, and MP made a smallish bet of, let’s say, $80.  I don’t think this is a bluff, but I think he can still have just one pair, so I call.  Pot is $362.

The river is a K.  I check-call another small bet of $120 or so.
Turns out he had KT and rivered me.

I did some analysis of this hand afterwards, and it appears that if he’s consistently raising AT and KT on this flop in that spot, then I can profitably push.  His range in that scenario would be sets, OESDs, AT, KT and 45.  In fact, though, I think he’ll sometimes call with a hand like KT or even AT, so I don’t know.

I think I can also consider reraising the flop and folding to a push.  People don’t usually recommend putting in half your stack and then folding, but I can’t see him re-re-raising a tight player with  anything that I beat.

I could also lead out on this flop.  Normally I would do that; not sure why I didn’t here.  I did feel confident with two aggressive players behind me that I would get some action if I checked.