Quote Originally Posted by aislephive
dsaxton, I think you are being very results oriented this hand. You can always stick in a reraise and give him credit for a higher flush if he pushes, but a lot of the time you are ahead here and won't make much on the hand by check-calling and you give him a free shot to hit a boat or a cheap exit if another heart hits. The fact that you both are big stacks changes the dynamics a bit, but I think that with 100xbb stacks here I go broke.
Um, I gave an explicit argument as to why I thought calling was the right play which made absolutely no reference to the result of the hand. I posted the results, and how they were interesting in light of my thinking, only as an anecdote and because someone had requested them.

If I reraise, and then he just calls, how do I know he has a set and isn't slow-playing a big flush? Do I then throw out a huge turn bet when I'm unsure as to whether or not I'm slightly ahead or drawing dead? If he does indeed have a set, he will charge himself to draw on the turn anyways if I call the flop. I don't have to worry about losing value in this sense. I already said this in another post.

I thought it was an interesting example of how aggressive betting and raising is not always the correct course of action, and that sometimes passive play can be optimal.