Re: checking behind with the nut flush draw
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i dont know why everyone is insisting it has to be the nut draw and not just a flush draw.
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Checking behind with the nut flush draw allows you to hit an A and keep the pot small. If you raise the flop, get called and an A hits on the turn, you end up with a tough decision if there is significant turn betting and all you have is TPNK (say with A4s). With a lower flush draw, you don't really want to keep other flush draws in the hand (though you do want to keep straight draws in perhaps), plus you have no real way of winning the hand if it goes to showdown besides making your flush, in which case you want to play a big pot, so you may as well pump it up now.
Hopefully that makes some sense and I'm not just talking out of my ass.
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