Re: how would you play this flop - flush draw, top pair
Preflop: standard.
Flop: Stick with your initial plan, and check/raise the late bettor. Yes, you have a flush draw (and a backdoor straight draw, btw), but you also have TPWK, which might be the best hand right now--you want to drive out overcards and/or gutshot draws to maximize your chances of winning with or without the flush. You also want to drive out single high spades, which could turn a redraw to your J-high flush. For the above reasons, I don't like the 3-bet either, as you're only bloating the pot to make it more likely that any draws left will have odds to call the turn, as well as eliminating the chance of a turn c/r (which was the only thing you gained by just calling the initial flop bet).
Turn: The way you played it the flop, betting out is standard.
River: Must bet out regardless of what you did on prior streets.
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