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flat call his flop bet but take a little time doing it - make him think you are drawing to something. If you pump it up now he'll likely read you correctly for some made hand and throw whatever he has in the muck.

If he has a worse set it's all going to be in the middle later anyway - I think 2 streets is plenty enough time to get the rest in. Smooth call flop - re-evaluate turn depending on what falls, even if his flush hits we still have 10 outs to pair the board. If he has nothing on the turn he might well throw out some bluff to swell the pot some more, if we raise here he's going to throw away anything we beat and leave us with a modest payout - we have a big hand we want to make this pot big...

[note - I don't play live, and especially not against Vegas pros, so I might be way out of line here - but thats what I'd do.]

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Turn (Pot is $95ish) is 5 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

Board is 6 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] Q [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] 5 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

Villain checks, Hero ????

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Yahtzee! - think a while - make a weaksauce looking bet of ~half pot and pray he just hit his flush draw and comes OTT. Then you can push the rest of your stack into the middle, or call and drop the rest in on the river depending on how much he raises it up. We have to build this pot in order to get the rest in on the river there's no way he'll call off lots of chips without a good hand here - if he's got it we get paid - if not we weren't making anything here anyway....