Quote Originally Posted by montimus
There must be something in the water...

I can't tell you the number of times in the last week where I've pushed a fish all in(who had 4 to a flush) and the fish called and caught the flush. There must be some new movement among fish to just gamble on every flush draw...
Opp in this hand is not a fish. It's a decent play -- push back hard against a protective bet when you're on the come, giving yourself the standard win 1/3 of the time when you complete, plus another (approx) 30% chance of opp folding to you. That's probably how he ammassed his chips.

Note: if you had pushed all in against him, and he had called, it would be bad play. But he rightly opted to be the aggressor. You lose by calling against the odds, but you can win by raising against them, oddly enough.

Congrats on the play, though. Stick with it