The security blanket

There is something that I noticed that I can't figure out as follows:

I notice that a lot of players will go along betting their pocket kings or top pair or two pair and all of a sudden, when a threat shows up on the board, like say 3 suited cards...they stop betting and check...then when their opponent says, yes there is a flush and I have it, by betting strong...the player then proceds by calling the bet....what I can't figure out, is why did you check, if your going to call this large bet anyway.

Now I am not advocating to bet or check...I am just don't understand your check if your going to call anyway.

If you check, you are only saying one thing.....I don't have it!...and to your opponent, if you don't have it either...here is a good opportunity for you to bluff and represent that you do have it.

If you do bet you might be able to keep the betting down....lets say you bet a smaller amount than what the player that actually has it would have bet....now that opponent might feel that you also have it and that yours might be higher....then that opponent only calls, instead of laying out a large bet, and gives you a chance to fill your boat, or for the board to lay out a fourth suited card.

If in this situation you increase your bet...your telling your opponent, that that is what I was betting on all along and now that it arrived my betting is going up.

If you do bet, you take away the opportunity for the player that want's to represent that they have it and would have bluffed it.

I rarely see a player check then come up over top of their opponent, when they do bet, in this situation.

Is a player supose to feel more secure, because they checked before calling an opponent bet in this case? I seldom see a player fold after the opponent bet.

Just something to think about!

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i'ved noticed several betting tells that show a player is worried about wut the last card brought to the table... checking whenthere is a flush possibility is one, betting a smaller amount than their first bet is another and the third one i love because it almost always works(well maybe not now that i'm posting it)
when some people are bluffing or are worried you have a better hand than them, they might bet "extra chips" or chips they can afford to lose for example in a cash game someone might have $10.27, after they bet on the flop, if a turn card comes up that scares them, they might only bet .27 cents, thinking "if my opponent does have the flush, then i can fold and still have my 10 dollars" this is the perfect time to represent the flush! the other player will almost always fold. this happens in tourneys to someone with 15,253 might bet 253, it happens rarely but when it does, take advantage of it!

This type of play comes after playing many tournaments, and having your QQs or KKs beaten on the turn or river by an A-anything calling all the way and hitting the Ace to beat your pair. When this happens too many times, players tend to feel "snakebit" and develop a tendency to automatically check whenever a scare card hits. You have to remind yourself to remain aggressive and continue betting until you are fairly certain that you are beat.