I hate letting someone catch up....

I hate slow playing when I think I have the nuts.

So I FLOP an ace high flush....of COURSE I am slow playing, turn comes a heart, the guy to the right of me starts betting. I call.
Then the river, this brings out ANOTHER 5 on the board, I noticed a 5 on the flop, so this guy goes all in, I'm thinking,

'Your sets NO good, YAY I CALL YOUR ALL IN!'

All I see is all my chips go to him...I look in shock at the 'Dealer details'
and see, so and so shows: Straight-flush.

I start cussing and leaving the comp, come back and do it some more...call my friend and whine

Now excuse my foggy brain, I don't remember MUCH of the details of this game, all I know is I lost and was out and mad

I let him catch up, because my friend said, 'Well I am looking at last hand and he got it on the river, that 5 was a diamond.'

So. That sucked. I am pretty sure he wouldn't have folded a straight flush draw...so maybe I didn't let him catch up....but still....I want to think that...the board being all diamonds and one heart just let me presume he had a king high, queen high, set....anything but the dreaded SF.

You made the right call. So pat yourself on the back. Now as far as letting someone catch up, Im sure that wasnt your intentions. That is how you win majority of your money is by letting someone pay you to chace. You need to know when to let them chase and when to really put some pressure on them if they are on a good draw. How were you suppose to know he had a straight flush. That hand is one in a million so you played the hand correctly.

Yeah, thanks, that's what my friend was saying but I was too heated to listen.

'They so trapped me!'

- ....On the river?

'YES! on the river!'

Grrrr. Prob the worst beat for me, I thought a higher full house beating me was bad...but that? hahaha, essp when I love my flushes so much.

After reading your post once more I feel like my advice is probably not the best. You said a second 5 came out on the river before your opponenet went all in. That 5 could have made him a Full house as well. So at that point you would really have to know your opponent to make this call. Because in my opinion he probably knows you have a flush and he is representing a hand that can beat it.

His bet was too huge on the turn for me to think he was on a full house river wise. I really thought he had a lower flush. But the 5 def led me to believe he just had something 5 or wanted anyone not having a flush off the hand. No clue. Haha.

Let me ask you this.

Did you check it down to the river before your opponent made his move?
Or were you throwing out value bets trying to trap him?

If so you know where you made your mistake. The best advice i can give is No Matter what,,, when you have a hand , BET!

Ah man, haha cmon! I flopped an ACE high, you make it sound like I had a 2 high and was playing wreckless
Haha kidding. But yea, flop - I checked, some guy in the hand checked, and he checked. Turn came, he bet pretty big. I call, river he's all in, I call. Boom, over ha, it all lasted like 3secs. Fastest hand, and the worst

He threw out a feeler bet big enough to scare somone on a Flush draw away. And got lucky on his draw in the end. You made a mistake by checking, period.

Hope you learn from your mistakes,,, cause slow playing doesnt pay in my opinion.

It really was a bad beat, but had you played it differently you possbly could have one.

Although there are alot of morons out there who would probably have called you allthe way to fifth street with an open ended SF.

Haha, salt in my woundssssssssssssss.

But yea, I definitely did decide that slow playing only works with royals

But yea...I have learned and will move on. Slowly.....

Good for you.

I know alot of people would say that slow playing in certain situations, like flopping trips is the right play. But I disagree totally. Especially with my style of play. Im usually a solid aggressive player so when Im in a hand Im in it to win it, so if I slowed down and checked with trips. That would raise a red flag to any decent player who is paying attention.

Good Luck

You played right but I disagree about moron comment. It depends alot on the villian stack at the moment (short or large) short he bets to survive and large they bet thinking I got more chips. Then some will fold protecting their stacks. The moron is thew villian who bets without regard to hand or pot odds and relies wholely on the luck of the draw and bluffing. He read you and probably didnt have SF until the river and thats when you lost thr hand.

That's what annoys me too. I had pocket kings yesterday in a heads-up, flop a king, im betting little amounts, and the guy hits his straight on the river.