I remember one Particular hand I was in in a big tourney and was stacked pretty good,
I raised on the button with K/10 diamonds, called by the BB and Hijack.
We flopped 3 diamonds so I led with a small/ mediocre continuation bet and both called, Turn gave a spade with a straight draw now on board which I loved as if these other players were drawing to a straight I would own both of them,
River was another diamond and my first reaction was to push but I felt something had gone wrong so I bet about half the pot which by now was quite big.
BB shoved all in and Hijack called all in and I folded my King flush why?
I read my players spot on, BB had played A/K with the Ace of Diamonds so had the nut flush and I don't know what game the Hijack was playing because be only had 2 pair????
But I do remember a time I called a bet once when I had A/10 off and hit 2 pair on flop and by the river had not improved but the board had 4 spades and I didn't have a spade in my hand. what made this different was the betting size by the BB and Hijack players.
No one raised pre-flop 200 on flop 200 on turn and 600 on river and Hijack folded river, so a sizeable pot and I just said "well if you have a spade, you got me but I have to call 600, I have 2 pair" and BB mucked.
Intuition or gut call it what you want but in both instances I played the right way
