Re: Badly Played?
The important point is risk vs. reward. Your big risk is that your hand is dead. In this situation that's not a small risk. He could easily have held AK given that he called a raise preflop. But it's even worse than that. You had a lot of callers, any one of whom could hold AK or have hit a set on the flop. In that case any bet you make is throwing money away. But what's your reward if you do bet? Not much - since anyone without a hand is likely to lose to you anyway. There's no real gain here.
The ONLY gain from betting the flop is that you push out the strong draws e.g. clubs here and even that might not succeed - even that might fail and cost you more money - exactly what happened.
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