I respect bart, after limon coached him up he became a great midstakes player. He wasn't always that good. He just knows a lot of super star talent.

If you sat down with all those people you should be a great midstakes player right?

If I sat down with all those people I'd just be broke.

I'm talking about interviews. Just having conversations and making friends with the best of the best in the poker world.

Brag: Got to play an extra session outside of my usual maximum of one-per-week. Down across the border for stepdaughters softball tourney, on the way home wife and stepdaughter shop for a bit at outlet malls which enables me to squeeze in 70 minutes of 1/3 NL at the poker room next door (Tulalip - were you in the room yesterday SeaUlater?).

Variance: Won $30 (basically on par with my usual average/hour). Lol, there's only a 66 BB maximum buy-in, and yet by simply keeping my stack built up to maximum I still had the largest stack on the table.

Beat: Wife/stepdaughter's spending/hr is >> my poker winnings/hr.

GbutlifeisgoodG

Bad cooler last night. Effective stacks 1000.

Straddle is on. 1 limper. Late position makes it 60.

I call in the BB with 9c9h

Limper calls.

(Pot 180) Flop Kh 8s 6s Checks around. Wtf?

(Pot 180) Turn in 9d. I lead for 150

Limper makes it 350. Original raiser folds.

I shove. He snap calls with 5d7d.

River bricks 3c

Wtf?

How is it a cooler?

Well, there's no way he limped with KK. There's only one hand that beats me and I cannot put him on 57 with a $60 pre-flop call.

ROFL! THE IRONY, THE IRONY!!!

You're like the biggest "I am da biggest winner with my dick out" poster in this sub-forum and the funny part is you don't even play LLSNL anymore.

You also speak of pushing small edges as if that's the only optimal way of playing, and if you don't, you're playing scared.

It's a suited connector and effective is $1000, you kind of almost expect them to have ATC in these spots.

Well God bless him. There's no way I'm folding middle set on this board. He could have a combo flush/straight draw more frequently.

Well, without HH, it is very hard to say whether he's ever going to have anything but 2p+, and whether his calling range is ever going to be < nuts.

But ya, even if I am not folding on the turn with middle set, I don't think I am re-shoving unless there is relevant HH to suggest that he's able to get it in with worse at 200bb.

5/10 right? Fold pre with 50bbs. After you hit your set you can't fold.

HTJ speaks truth.

Anyways, I'm a month out from my mcat. My last practice was a 39 (13 verbal, 13 physical sci, 13 bio sci) which is 99th percentile. Sounds sweet, but my practice exam was in this range last year and I got a 30 (80th percentile). Still no idea how that happened.

No, this is 2-3-5. I planned to set mine and fold if I whiffed the flop. It checked around and I spiked the set on the turn.

Lol no. Our hand has value and were getting 20-1+ implied odds.

I don't know anything about mcat, but in GMAT it's quite normal to see someone get a much lower actual test score than practice score.

Do you take these tests under near-test center condition? Do you take them at the same time of the day as your test day? Are there repeated questions in the practice test that may inflate the score?

The biggest one in GMAT is that most people don't work on the essay questions prior to the practice test, whereas in the actual test, there are always two essay questions that are designed to work against your stamina.

And there are bunch of other factors, but I would suggest looking into them if there's a huge discrepancy between practice and actual scores.

We might not, because original raiser had checked the flop and folded the turn.

Yeah clear cooler. 9 was a bad card for you great card for him.

Yes, yes, no.

I've taken the GMAT, and it's a joke compared to the mcat.

I think the biggest factors were me choking and having to take the test in Michigan, so i didn't get to sleep in my own bed.

Come on.

Come on what? The guy raised $60 and checked the flop...that doesn't sound like there's any implied there.

I think its probably fairly standard to preform a little worse on the test day. Especially if its the first time you take it.

My LSAT score was 4-5 points lower than any practice test (which were just old tests) that I had taken in months. I pinned it on any number of factors, not feeling my best that day, etc. But I think they all came down to nerves. I never took it again, but I would imagine if I had, being in the same situation again would have been a little easier. I think each time you take it you are more likely to get closer to your "true" score.

Also, there may be some variation (i.e. you may have just gotten a bad test for you). I don't know much about the MCAT though. You previously said it was content based to some extent, so I suppose its possible. Its not really possible for tests like the LSAT, which are concept based.

Are you planning on retaking it?

If you want to make that argument, then we pick up the pot often enough to justify calling.

In reality its some combination of the two. But folding there would be pretty bad. (at any point).

To clarify, the guy who raised 60 pre flop folded on the turn.

He's saying that you can't call PF because you didn't get any money out of the PFR postflop.

The player that raised pre-flop is relatively tight. So I put him on a good hand, which makes my call to set-mine the correct play. If he had a weak hand then a fold might be a better play. I guess you and I agree.