An instructive SSNL hand: How much to charge a flush draw

[AKQJ10]

Where possible I'll try to link interesting hands and discuss them here, but honestly it's easier just to go to the SSNL Digest thread and read all those. (I'm still working my way through them.)

AK OOP (200 6-max)

One reason I found this thread so interesting is because I had recently struggled with a somewhat similar hand that I posted here. Another, related reason, is because I'm still working on charging flush draws enough to prevent laying correct implied odds, but not so much that they (correctly) fold.

On this last topic, note in particular the comments by PurpleLight and BobboFittos about halfway down. Up to that point, reading all the recommendations of pushing the turn made me uneasy, for exactly this reason. Pushing the turn does give one the psychological satisfaction of not agonizing over a potential mistake calling the river! However, Harrington, Miller, and Sklansky (in HoHI, GSIH, TOP, respectively) all emphasize that you're "rooting"* for incorrect calls, not trying to push people and get them to fold an inferior hand.

So anyway, if this is helpful to beginners, I'll try to post a hand from there every once in a while. No promises on the frequency, heh.

*Apologies to Australian readers; it's Sklansky's word choice, not mine.