Quote Originally Posted by PlayToWin
So, my read was wrong. He flopped two pair and I was the one who needed to catch a card. When the board paired 5's, that gave me the higher 2-pair. If that hadn't happenned, I would have gotten stacked.

I doubled up, but was it a good call on the flop? Sometimes it's good to get lucky.

Thanks for all the advice. I'll be posting more hands in the future. It helps a lot.
Just one more lesson here. He bet the two pair right. You're almost always way ahead on the flop with two pair, but it's a fragile hand that can easily lose to a better two when your opponent has overs, a set and/or lots of other things. Also, it would be interesting to run PokerStove on the hand. I'm betting you're not that bad off in terms of equity. But it's a weird situation. I'll leave that to you, though. It's how we learn how to play.