[yeltzen]

Your situation was way better than you thought, actually. You want him to have a set there. Yeah, it sucks that you got drawn out on, but that's the perfect situation where a guy will call two big bets on the turn and river regardless of whether he fills up. You gotta bet that turn. When the board pairs, you can maybe take it easy on the river and check/call a smallish bet but fold to an all in or something.

You were right to walk away from the table at that point. That's a huge loss and a hard one to take, so you probably wouldn't have done very well after that. But you should have come back later and tried again.

I would personally never play NL casino poker. First of all, the rake and tip are killer, but you always find these dopes that want to play like they watch on WPT and WSOP... regardless of the fact that those are shorthanded tables played against guys who have books on each other. I always see these young guys walk in all big and bad and then leave red-faced. I love it.