For Those Who Enjoy Meaningless Semantic Debates

[J Chap]

Thank you in advance for being a nerd with me...

Here we go:

Flop is 3TJ rainbow. I have QK. I end up pushing all-in, and my opponent calls with AJ. No flush draws on the flop.

Given my correct inclination that I had 14 outs to the best hand, I was insulted by his insinuation that I got "lucky" when I won the hand. A polite altercation ensued.

He insisted that I needed to 'catch' in order to win. The way I see it, HE needed to catch cards-that-missed-me, which, in this case, were the minority. Basically, the fact that the first 5/7 of his Hold 'Em hand would make a higher-ranking Stud hand than mine is meaningless, since we were playing Hold 'Em. Right?

So, who, would you say, was "ahead" at the time?

Thank you for feeding my geekery.