[gumpzilla]

The entire point of this play is that you lose essentially nothing by giving free cards in this situation because a) you're way ahead of him and he has 2 outs, in which case it's quite unlikely that he is going to hit, so giving free cards is relatively harmless, b) you're way behind and are actually benefitting by giving that card. Notice how different the situation becomes if the flop is K [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] T [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] T [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. Now with the flush draw out there, this logic isn't as good and you should probably bet to protect your hand against the flush draw.

Many players will take a swing at this board if you show no interest in it by checking. You have a pretty big hand and you'd really like to get paid as much as possible. Betting right now is probably not going to get called except by a T or another K. Some opponents, if you do make a weak enough looking bet, will try blasting over the top of you here (I'll certainly do that from time to time), so that's not necessarily a bad play but it's going to be more read dependent than the line that was suggested.