The Spotted One

Generally it is best to play four card flush draws with an Ace agressively in 7 stud. There are numerous factors that could make this untrue though. One being if someone paired their door card, a second if your flush cards are starting to be dead. A third how your opponents are playing, and how you are playing. Have your opponents seen you get really aggressive with your flush draws everytime? One thing you should look at is how high your cards besides your Ace are. For example, say someone completes with a T up on third. You may be more inclined to raise him with a hand like (8s Js) As

I would not have bet that turn. You are in bad position, the Ts just put a lot of draws on the board, someone may have hit a T, or has slowplayed three Qs, it is a multi-handed pot. It was not a bad beat since you did not have the best hand anyways. Just a bad card for you to have hit. Try to include stack sizes, and other important information such as how your opponents have been playing, in posts. Or what stage the tournament is in, blind sizes, antes. All of those factors may have influenced the way the hand should have been played. Not considering any of that information I guess I wo