I like check raising the flop instead of leading out. If your opponent checks behind, you get a free card to hit the nuts. If he bets, a check-raise is quite believable on this board. You are probably up against a set here, or made flush and need help. Most of the time when you get raised on the flop after having the initiative preflop and c-betting, you are in bad shape. The button call preflop indicates a speculative hand. He's not going broke with it unless he hits it hard but not quite hard enough. Fold Equity is almost always overestimated in my opinion because we just think our power will make our opponents crumble and people find themselves all in with far the worst of it way too often. If he has the flush already, you have only 7 outs (maybe), if he has a set, he has redraws to a boat in case you get lucky. Either way you're getting your money in bad.
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