Quote Originally Posted by SmackinYaUp
unless you hold the supreme ultimate nuts every hand you can say "well he's either ahead or behind so why make it easy for him to decide?" every time. poker is about cashing in on those mistakes people make and putting in raises with the most likely best hand is how you do that. sometimes you are behind, but you don't want to minimize every winning hand you have just because you think the opponent knows how to play perfect poker. if you think you could have folded to the reraise then why not do that instead of calling down? probably costs the same and on top of that you don't have to worry about the 4-flush hitting or the board pairing. people will raise your flop bets with all sorts of shit so I wouldn't slow down my 2card flush every time someone does that unless you have a read.
I never suggested you wait for the absolute nuts to raise.

In this situation, assume he isn't an idiot and will fold a smaller flush or straight if reraised. Assume he'll reraise, or sometimes call as a trap with a higher flush, and will call with a set. Then, a reraise has three likely outcomes: he folds when he was drawing dead, he occasionally reraises when he has a higher flush, and he calls when he has either a higher flush or a set. If he folds, he was drawing dead anyways, and I denied myself the opportunity to win anymore money, if he reraises, I guess that's good because I now know I'm beat, but if he calls, then what do I do? He will call me either when I'm slightly ahead or drawing dead, but I have no way of knowing which is the case. I'm reraising in a spot where I don't even know what to do when I get called. What, then, is the value in this play?