[Fantam]

I think that I would have most likely mucked on the flop instead of cold calling 4 small bets as well.

You probably needed to discount your outs in your retrospective calculation.

For example you could have made your straight and lost to someone who had AJ for a higher straight. Or you could have made your back-door flush and lost to someone who had a full-house.

Its easy to become results orientated and think that you made a mistake by folding what would have been a winning hand after seeing the rest of the hand.

However, I think that you most likely made the correct decision to muck your hand.