[joedot]

You say, "including his missed flush...." Well, let's say he misses his flush. So you bet as you are proposing, what good have you done. This is exactly my point. You bet, he folds with a hand like this. You check, he may bet it and you make an extra bet. You bet, he will call and raise with hands that beat yours the vast majority of the time. And hands like missed flushes, and draws don't pay off your 1 pair hand. But checking, may get these hands to try to bluff at a fairly big pot at this point. In poker, there are a lot of decisions that can go both ways, many ways to play a hand. This is not one of those situations.