Originally Posted by Rondavu

Why did you raise the turn?

Originally Posted by dsaxton

Raising on the flop is a good play. The only hands that are going to pay you off are a queen or a flush draw / flush, and these hands are willing to call money into the pot or even reraise on the flop. Slow-playing doesn't make sense when your opponent is going to pay you off if you don't anyways (unless he is weak, in which case you aren't forgoing much by not slow-playing anyways).

Also, from the perspective of a player with a lone queen, his hand appears much stronger on the flop than it will on later streets since on the turn and river there are more ways he can be beaten than on the flop. So, your opponent will be most confident in his hand on the flop, unless he makes queens full. And you'll be faced with decisions if a J, K or similar card comes on a later street and you may cost yourself money.

I don't understand why you checked behind on the turn. I'd expect him to have at least a flush draw, meaning he's willing to call money into the pot. Why didn't you let him?

Originally Posted by edudlive

Because I did it every hand I had that saw a flop, won me most pots, so deviating from that MIGHT tip someone off (granted this low it probably wont) but it was worth a shot.

Originally Posted by Rondavu

So you never saw a flop you didn't like? You had to of checked at some point when the flop was slaughtering you.

Originally Posted by edudlive

My reasoning was that he had the flush draw. I wanted to both show weakness and allow him to hit his flush. I'd rather let him have his free card (and hit his flush) so that he'll get destacked than get another $0.50 into the pot and him fold like he did on the river. Granted, I do agree betting on the turn is a good idea (since my boat is still easily defeated by queens full), but based on my reads of the guy (fish, any two suited), I felt letting him draw to what I thought was a flush draw was my best bet

Originally Posted by Rondavu

If you're going to let him draw on 4th street, then again I ask... why did you raise the flop? You wanted to show weakness? You already blew it man when you raised the flop in a van down by the river.

Originally Posted by dsaxton

I don't understand. Why give him a free card when he's willing to pay for it?

You can still bet an amount which "lets him draw." That's the whole idea, you give him the right odds to draw dead.