Kevin – thanks for your answer. This is probably going to lead me to doing soul-searching. I am thinking that my opponent is pretty sure that I have three of a kind. This is a local game and we all have played hundreds of hours together over the years. I just saw the BB guy tonight and he said he was bluffing but he knew that ” I was good enough to get away from the hand ” when I did not boat up. So I don’t have the option of playing in a casino and am going to do some studying here with you guys. This game is a $200 minimum buy in with the same 8 – 10 guys playing all night on Saturday’s. Somebody lost $ 2500 last week I think , normally several players win $ 1200-1400 and others break even or lose smallish.