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I have to agree with Mr. Smalley here. “Obviously the villain is trapping you. He’s not check raising with an over pair. But you don’t really have a choice. You flopped a straight and only losing to flopped flushes, I would just jam right there after he raised you.”
When you flop the nuts straight on a monotone board you have to throw your stack in the middle. Maybe you are drawing dead but shoving ~400 dollars into 160 is obviously the best option with the eleventh nuts. A cooler is a cooler.
He goes onto say, “If you are not jamming then I would just check the flop. Why would you bet when you can just see a free card on the turn right?”
Again I agree because your hand is very strong on the flop and there are a lot of bad cards on the turn that you want to let him hit so you can fold without losing more than 12.
Then he says, “But at the same time you are blocking 4s full and 6s full in case the board pairs up so you can make a play and pretend you have one of those boats. Bottom line is you played that hand horribly.”
This, This, This. When you flop a straight on this board you know that you are not going to be good on a lot of run outs. The best option here is to pretend like you have a potential full house and throw caution to wind on the flop… He might even fold his hand on the flop if he thinks you have strong equity with 4s or 6s.
“You are the worst poker player I’ve ever read about playing 1/2.” I know this sounds harsh but you should really take this as an opportunity to learn from your mistakes and get better. Just remember you need to always play like you will end up having the nuts by throwing a massive raise on a dangerous board when you could be drawing dead and have decent equity against his draws that he can call you off with.
