Rook:
Ask yourself this: Why in the world would I want my opponent to fold when I am literally a 99.9% favotire? OF COURSE I didn't raise!!! If you don't understand that, you should seriously stop playing right now and hit the poker books until you do.
The same is true on the turn. Sure, in NL maybe I could have bet more and gotten him to fold, but I didn't want him to fold! I was better than a 97% favorite.
As for his "going for the straight," I think it was more likely that he was going for the flush, but with 2 pair on the board, this is a very, very, very bad idea. He was drawing to 1 out on the turn (and needed two perfect cards on the flop).
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