Originally Posted by
EWC-JMU
Strange indeed. My only thought is that maybe he put you on a weak tens-full boat that he thought you might lay down if he came over the top of you and tried to put you all in. I doubt it though, because if he had half a brain he would have seen that you were so pot-committed at that point that you almost certainly would call.
Man, I know it's annoying to get slow-rolled and sucked out, especially when you think you have the nuts, but you really did play the hand better than he did. A lesser player would have pushed in a nanosecond in response to his bet on the river. Any bad beat in NL that leaves you with at least some of your stack isn't as bad as it could be.
I was really just trying to value bet him on the river. His bet on the flop confused me. Virtually any player who flops a royal flush would at least take a card off to let the other guy catch up and hopefully make some money. Once he bet the flop and then checks the turn when the board had a 4 flush and a lot of straight possibilities, I had to figure that I was good (also accounting for the limp, call preflop). I was hoping that overbetting the pot on the turn would make him think I was semi-bluffing with a 4 flush and that whatever he had was good. When the board paired on the river and he bet, I was almost convinced he had either Q/10, j/10, or had flopped a set and rivered a boat...thus the 600 raise to a 500 bet. Oops...