What everyone is saying is pretty much inline with the conclusion I came to while thinking about the hands on the way to work....

If I don't raise preflop, I likely need to give credit when someone reps a straight because they could have limped any two. I should try to see a cheap showdown or consider tossing it.

The other conclusion I've come to is that my opponents know I'll take a decent hand like trips or two pair to the felt. So their implied odds of drawing are huge. If i've made my hand I've shown that I'm unlikely to dump it on the river. So they were drawing into me anticipating getting paid off.


Miffed, good job... wish i had picked up on the flopped straight in the third one. The only one of these three hand where I felt i was good on the river was hand 1 with the trip jacks. I had a bad feeling in the others and I just could not lay down the set. Wish i had.