That's just it. He's counting on me to raise, trapping the field for 2 bets with the nuts. This guy didn't cap a flush HU on the river. He's not going to bet into the flop raiser and 3-bettor without something much better than most of those holdings.

I think I'm behind a good percentage of the time here.

My only regret was narrowing my read so much. I really should have raised that turn and then folded to a 3-bet. I wussed out and didn't want to have to lay down my straight when I could see a showdown for the same price.

When the board paired on the end, I figured I'd put in a raise to partially cancel out my wussing out, since I knew he'd be scared of some big hand like a boat, since the action the flop looked like someone might have a set. In that case, he wouldn't 3-bet me even if he had the higher straight, and I could extract value if he didn't.