Turn Play

I think I've found my biggest leak in my game: My turn play with the nuts or close to it. I was playing a live NL game with no Max Buy-in with 2-2-1 blinds and 5 to bring it in. I have about $600 in front of me. There's an early position raise and two callers, so I call from the SB with pocket 6s. Flop is 996. Score! Checked around. Turn is a spade 3 for the flush. I check, early guy bets 40, caller raises to $140 and late position guy calls all-in. I smooth call and the early guy goes all in. The turn is a 10 and I go all-in and the raiser calls with 10-9. Tough break, right? No, just bad play. There were two lines I could've taken, betting the flop and betting the turn. Anyways, I should've being raising the turn and not softplaying because I put this guy on a 9 and I wanted to get paid off, right? Well, he has 7 outs to improve over me and I am also dodging the 2 outs from the first guys over pair. Facing 9 outs, I should've tried to get as much money in the pot as possible. I tend to slowplay the turn when I have the nuts or near it and give my opponents a cheap/free card to beat me enough that I pay it off.

This has happened time and time again and my "greediness" got the better of me and cost me maybe not the pot, but at least me putting my money in ahead, not behind. Next time, unless I have a hand that cannot be beat unless to maybe a 1 outer, I am going to try put maximum pressure on my opponents on the turn when I believe I have the best of it.