I flop the nut flush and have a pair on board...

The pot has 1000 in it, I bet out 800, 80% of pot.

Board reads 9 T 4

I have in my hand :

A 7 8 9

It is now heads up. I am playing against a guy who thinks he is gods gift to poker, He is getting 18 : 8 or approximately 9 : 4 for the call. I hoped that he had 2 pair, a lower flush or a set.

He then gave me a pop quiz about his hand, telling me that hand reading is the most important skill in the game. He called the flop bet of 800 then folded when I bet 80% pot on the turn. I told him that he obviously had a set... He congratulated me on working out his hand. He then told me that I should have bet pot because if I let him call then I could lose the hand.

Don't I want him to call in this spot drawing to T, 99, 444. He has to hit one of 6 outs and for 9:4 it's obviously not worth it?

I thought that I would humour him and just agree with whatever he said, at the end of the day he ain't paying me for lessons so why should I teach him?

Is my thinking here right?

you're good. he called getting only 2.25 to 1 when he needed 3.5 to 1.

That's assuming you know he has the flush.

Maybe he only has the ace of hearts and is drawing to the nut flush

True that. You gotta love those trendy holdem players attempting to make the transition to omaha because they finally showed an omaha tourney on espn. It's awesome!

I have the flush, he has a set drawing to a full house....

sorry. forgot to add the <sw>

Yeh, I understand it wasn't serious, but it isn't situational...