[TonyBlair]

Thanks for your comments.

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Why even second guess yourself if it's not a tournament?

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If I flip this in a tournament I'm playing the hand unless we are seriously deep stacked. It's a big hand, if I'm beat I'm beat.

Here, I was pretty sure the raiser had a strong hand. Against a lunatic I'll take my chances and not second guess myself but he was fairly solid.

I ended up losing to 999. I decided to post the hand to guage opinion on how sure you have to be that you are badly behind before folding the lower set. I want to play by trusting my instincts but is it going to cost me in the long run if I start passing up possible opportunities (like here) to stack people?

I think next time I'll just fold the hand and move on. And this isn't a bad reaction to losing my stack in a tough situation. If I find it makes me weak, I'll re-adjust. It might make me tough.