amen, cannot wait. hopefully i dont get brutalized too much before heading out there to life tilt me even more

and yes they both start with an e

"good" and "poker?"

(That would have had more zing if you guys hadn't done the starts-with-e thing already).

fold preflop and c/f flop are both worthy of being considered imo. not sure if those lines are better, but it will allow you to avoid putting in money behind on the flop with almost no FE + rio the times you turn make something second best or c/c ui. seriously its gonna be hard as hell to show down profitably the times your hand is best no matter what your plan is.

given that you did cbet, the c/c seems fine since the pots now too big to give up and you've caught the best turn possible aside from a K/2.

kinda curious about the rest of the hand. if you were able to succesfully check your hand down and win, i'd say there's a strong possibility she misplayed her own hand worse than you may have. imo, that's the most likely reason for the lol-berateaments.

[x] understands metagame obv

well played DC, and well written as always

would read again

agree w/ fold pf

I spiked a king obviously.

Thanks, given how well she plays, folding PF is clearly best. I constantly FOS level myself against better players and this is just another example.

WTF happened here, deuce on the river?

I suspect he's also asking about the turn, which went check-call, and the only reason I didn't like it was already mentioned above.

DC led the river fwiw.

Tryptamean came back with a vengeance all at once! Tales from the Trypt!

nah, i got that he c/c'd the turn, and i suppose the K river makes the most sense of all to get berated.

Let me again point out that "berated" was a huge exaggeration by me, let's keep it at "chided".

I have friends who are kind enough to point out when I misplay hands and I always greatly appreciate that, despite my whiny protestations to the contrary, and would not like it to end because of my whiny exaggerations.

erudite, adj. -- the opposite of what HOWMANY is....

as an amateur cosmologist (i.e. read everything bg wrote and loved the elegant universe most of all. tried to read a number of papers on calabi yau curled up dimension selection - obv failed. yeesh that stuff is gibberish even for a math nerd like me -, read everything related to what the LHC has found to date, especially wrt to the higgs boson etc.) i approve of this post and ILR has gained points in my book.

I am an erudite poker player....

If this is true why not just continue betting to get her to attempt to bluff raise you? This gives would both give you more monies when she is bluffing you, and help your balance problems, amirite?

If it's true that DC always has A/K high when he c/c turn, can leading a k river really be that bad, given there is probably a 0% chance that he can bluff catch.

But there's a very high % chance he can beat thin value bets.

That's what I thought at first, but how thin will she value bet if it's 50/50 if he has A High or K high and she wins 1 bet or loses 2?

But I'm really tired so probably missing something.

My mission was accomplished.

The value of betting on the end also depends on the frequency that he can also be bluffing in this spot, yes?

True. If we can just fold when he donks, donking goes down in value. Also it's important to realize if dc is donking improvement we should be value betting very thin when he checks. It's sort of the chicken/egg argument, but there it is.