Was I wrong to call with a flush?

The game: My regular $.5/.25 NLHE. Live. Not friends, just a bunch of guys, competitive. Game is usually loose-aggressive, with frequent pre-flop limpers and callers, some calling because they are loose, others because they then get the correct pot odds. I have the reputation as one of the tightest players on the table, but during hands, my opponents seem to forget and call my aggressive bets. I'm a good player but could be better, winning about 5BB/hr over 125 hrs or so. I do this for fun. I make about 15 times that at my day job.

The hand: Pre-flop, everyone limps to me on the button, and I raise to 6BB, $3.00, with 7h 8h. Six players call my bet. This is typical. The pot has $18.00. The flop comes 6h 9h 2h, giving me a flush and a straight-flush draw. Everyone checks to the cut-off, who bets $10.00. He is a tight player but he is pretty dumb and often makes errors. The pot has $28.00. I raise to $30, making the pot $58.00. Everyone folds to the cut off. He pushes me all with the rest of his stack, about $40.

What would you do? I called. He flipped over Qh 4h for the higher flush, which held up, taking the pot.

Did I make the right call?

It's a cooler.

that hand was a cooler for sure. It's a tough call... but definately a hard hand to lay down. If he were really a tight player, Qh 4h should not have been being played in the first place. And that is the truth. I know people that like suited J's, Q's, and K's, but unless they connect I don't want anything to do with these hands. Suited A's in mid to late position are worth a limp in moy opinion. You just got unlucky against a bad player. Only a bad player would see a raised pot with Q-rag suited

I'm never folding here.

It's a fold for me. Sure a St. Fl. is a big piece of pie... if it comes.

I know, by what you said, he's got a flush. I'm pretty sure it's a bigger one. What does this leave me? The Th and the 5h.

What's that?... 8% on the turn and 4% on the river?.

Easy fold.

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I'm not even going to read the OP or any posts in this thread and I'm just gonna say "calling was fine, don't be results oriented", just from looking at the thread title alone.

Hey, whaddaya know, I was right.

Calling was fine. There are many times your opponent will have the nut draw, 2 pair, trips or even top pair and be willing to get all in.

Since Dorkus has already posted here & this tread is not about min raisin, I'm agreein with whatever he said.

When it's obvious that the villian has a flush? And all I've got is an 8 high flush? I'm convinced that I only have two outs here.

Mebbe from a "pot locked" point of view, but even then, I'm still only drawing to two outs.

Don't see the edge here.

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I hate folding here but I think you're very capable of doing so if you have a good read.

I had the same situation in a huge pot post-flop, but my read told me I had him and he ended up having a set.

It really depends, but this is by no means a snap-call

I would have jammed the pot like you have but maybe called off and folded at his re-raise when he went all in. Since he is such a tight player, I would have to think he might have the NUT flush (you have high card 8)

like its been said good reads and you said he was playing tight sometimes were better off to muck the hands that cost us just because curiosity killed the cat situations.gut feelings are 9 times outa ten always right.good luck we always keep learning.

JusSumguy said:

When it's obvious that the villian has a flush? And all I've got is an 8 high flush? I'm convinced that I only have two outs here.

Mebbe from a "pot locked" point of view, but even then, I'm still only drawing to two outs.

Don't see the edge here.

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If you read like Roberto Romanello here ^ then make the hero fold.

If you want to play profitably then make the call, he often shows up with trips or 2p, just a cooler.

You raised enough pre-flop where the Q4 suited should have folded, but you basically had a community pot instead. And the flop was about as good as you could expect with your 2 cards, so there was no way to get away from it at that point.
Just make sure when you have AA or KK in the future, that you punish players like Q4 that won't throw away their cards by getting all your chips in the middle PRE-FLOP.