Iowa,

I take other people's advise here very seriously and I agree I have a lot to learn, probably forever like everyone else.
All hands cannot be played with the same lines though because conditions and player skills are different. I fully understand the concept of betting for information to help put people on hands.

Both of these special instances I am talking about were correct laydowns to bigger hands. I have proof that folding was right on both. Are we not supposed to go by reads anymore and just push cash around all over the place? There is not more I can say on this issue, I knew what Villian had and that's that. Should I have raised more on the flop to make him fold yes prob but if he calls in this instance then I lose a lot more. I was trying to slowplay trap him (reason for miniraise) and luckily was able to identify his straight on turn before losing any more money. It was a rare occurence to identify his hand and I understand it. I just wanted to know if anyone else would fold in that situation and that's it. Has nothing to do with being cocky or any of that.