Hand of the day XXV?
a heads-up cash game question this time, and this time you are going to help me decide if i made the right decision in this hand that i played about a month ago now

blinds are $1-2 in a home game(it had been as many as 6-handed but the game broke down) and my opponent places a $5 straddle on the button, which is common for this game...i raise to $15 out of my big blind with K-10 of hearts, and my opponent, who has been playing close to every hand as he likely should considering my style of play, calls...the flop comes down K-J-2 with two spades, and i checked, figuring he may have hit this flop enough to bet or would be willing to bluff it...he obliged by betting $10, and i raised to $35, and he called...the turn is an offsuit queen giving me an open-end straight draw, i bet $50 and got quickly called...the river is the 3 of spades putting a potential flush out there, and my opponent has about $100 left...what would you guys do here?

imho, i think you're already beat, and your only chance is to bluff at the flush, which probably won't be successful. I think the only possible hand he could have that you could beat is AQ, but it's much more likely he has a hand that beats yours.

Therefore, you have two choices: make a large-ish bet and hope he believes you have a flush, or check/call hoping he has a hand you can beat. Either way, I think you have the losing hand and neither strategy will get you the win, and going all-in is probably a mistake.

Overall though, the big mistake here was the $50 bet on the turn. It should have been either much larger (forcing him out of the hand, or, if he calls, you would have known you were beat) or much smaller (pretending you had the flush draw.)

I think you only have a 10-20% of having the better hand outright (he has only a pair of jacks or a king with a worse kicker than you) but bluffing at the flush only has a 10-20% chance as well. In this case, I think the check-call would lose you the least amount of money.

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