[Bartholow]

I think you are overthinking things. I raised with a live 3-flush with a couple of big cards in this hand. I wasn't trying to bully you or anything, I just wanted to raise for the usual reasons (though on pacific you don't thin players much, but you do build nice pots). Then I hit another ace and that's an automatic bet. It's true that if you had called you wouldn't have gotten much action later probably...