Quote Originally Posted by arkana
You are thinking about it all wrong, you want to bet as much as they will call because you are a favourite to win the hand. You dont want them to fold because then you are losing money. Just dont pay them off big when they hit and you will make big fat bags of money.
quoted for truth.

IN poker you want your opponent to make mistakes, by overbetting huge when someone is drawing (especially when you have a better draw then him) you are preventing you opp from making a mistake.