if UTG had been the PFR, then a c/r is the plan... but since the PFR came from late position, betting out to 3bet if given the chance gets more people to put money into the pot.

It's all about relative position.

I have read that somewhere sir, oh yeah SSHE and WLLH - thanks.

Also, it was pointed out to me that you need to know what you want to accomplish in the hand; c/r if the likely bettor is LP to protect your hand. Donk if the likely bettor is EP.

This is rarely ever the case. If your hand needs protecting and you donk it so the the PFR can raise, then typically if he does in fact raise, your hand is probably worse, hence you are drawing, thus you don't really want protection.

** If he would raise with UI overs or a worse hand then it would be great, but most of the time when this happens, our hand is not really that great.

Someone started a thread on what was a good check raise strategy -

Here I was glossing over the donk vs c/r vs the c/c - it is very complicated and I seldom get it right.

Situation is your are BIG BLIND with 44 and a player raised, you call as does 3 others plus the pfr - five to the flop.

You flop a set on 9-4-2 with 2 hearts. Your choices are:

Bet with then intent of raising.
Check with the intent of calling.
Check with the intent of raising.

What do you need to consider before you decide?

Simple choice is to just bet your hand.

Stop clogging the no content thread with content!

It's not that complicated:

1. What do you want to accomplish?
2. What's most likely the best way of getting that accomplished?

Here, the answer to (1) is make as many people as possible put in as many bets as possible. The answer to (2) depends on where you expect a bet and/or raise to come from and how you expect everyone else to react to the people driving action (you and the preflop raiser).

I can't believe that threeduck's hand is getting all this play and my GNR playlist for grinding has received none. This thread either needs a thread saver or a lolcat, imo.

Any thoughts about Rocket Queen as the finale?

i may let on too easily that i play poker. a former professor of mine:

oh, and

thanks. NC gives my plausible denial since I don't what I am talking aboutost of the time.

Very attractive same age as my niece

The concern here is likely less "you've been playing poker and poker is bad" than "you've been doing nothing this past year and I question your commitment to this field of study."

IMO, be prepared for a serious discussion on what you really want to do (and if you haven't seriously considered the question yourself, do so before you talk to your professor). When I entered graduate school, a lot of people explicitly or implicitly stated that they were doing it because they didn't really know what they wanted. I kid you not, 50% were gone after one semester, 75% by the end of the first year, and the remaining 25% gone by the end of the first two years. Not a single person who had any sort of doubt about doing graduate work survived. You really can't donk around in any sort of post-bachelors study (with the possible exception of doing an MBA). Again, IMO and unsolicited life advice, so take it / leave it as you see fit.

Are Sweet Child O' Mine and Welcome to the Jungle just to popular for you Doug?

having talked to him i don't have any concerns about him writing a strong letter of recommendation. he's actually a consultant for a living and bounced around from being a history postdoc to working in software and now is pretty high up at an elite firm, and gave me a long rant a couple of years ago about how i should take a year off after i graduate and go backpack around thailand. if he was an actual professor who was super straightedge about academics i don't think i would have added him on facebook (where he apparently takes some time to look at the HEM graphs i occasionally post).

Have you become an avatar whore? Just buy it like decent folk would.

I thought the intro to Sweet Child was a bit slow. Not sure how I missed Welcome to the Jungle, tbh.

But Live and Let Die made the cut? I'd go with Mr. Brownstone and You Could Be Mine over that.

Sick thread saver itt

I just noticed this, and as we scumbags/lawyers say in Court, "Objection, your honor: vague."

I would like clarification on what asmitty should "just buy."

The possible answers tickle me pink.

lol So what you're saying is that he actually has a life.

You Could be Mine is There.

I thought Mr. Brownstone was there. It is now.

Maybe this is where I am going wrong - I have 600+ songs in my playlist and I play them on my iPhone random order. No wonder I lose, I play the wrong music.

Poor Side of Town is my fav and on the top.

"Poor Side of Town" is a song by Johnny Rivers, that reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and on the RPM Canadian Chart on November 1966.

November 1966 was a watershed in my life and I would give anything to return to that time.

Two hands same game. I open AA, fish A calls, LP 3!, BB fish calls 3 cold, I cap all call.

K72r. I'm not even kidding.

I bet, fish a and BB call. 3-bettor mucks at 18:1 immediate lol nice.

5fd

bb checks I bet fish raises. BB fish says "fish, what do you have?". I'm in the hand so I can answer. "he has two pair, and one of them is 5s. It's probably king 5". Fish shoots daggers at me (we are actually very friendly) and says "I couldn't be slow playing a big hand?" and I respond simply "kings and fives". Bb calls anyway! I call. River blank fish bets BB calls I lol overcall. Fish has K5o. BB has K3o.

Hand 2

batman raises In EP and gets 6 way action.

K72r. I'm not even kidding. Sb c/r/4 bets and leads the T turn. Batman raises so now I know he has 77 minimum. Sb 3 bets and batman caps. River 2 SB check calls. Batman has KK. SB is from commerce apparently and rolls AK.

This basically sums up the last 5 months.

Apparently last night was the LAG convention at the Oaks.

This was my table:
Seat 1: 80/30 preflop, called any pair to showdown for any number of bets
Seat 2: 60/40 preflop, kept flopping the nuts
Seat 3: me
Seat 4: 100/0 preflop, called ATC to showdown for 1 bet on each street (but would fold to a raise)
Seat 5: 50/20 preflop, bluff check-raised the turn every single hand
Seat 6: 50/20 preflop, decent postflop but was a huge luckbox
Seat 7: 90/50 preflop, ******
Seat 8: 30/10 preflop but coldcalled "like it was his job"
Seat 9: decent reg but tilting for unknown reason
Seat 10: 40/0 preflop and only raised the river

How come there's nothing from Chinese Democracy?

Isn't everything good from Chinese Democracy there? I'm not sure.

The real question is "why isn't Mama Kin" on the list?"