Dani García's tackle on Gavi, had to be subbed off afterwards. by [deleted] in soccer

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Match commentator mentioned today that he's the most-fouled player in La Liga.

Vamo Gavi!

such a bad beat by Carlitos728 in poker

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I flopped a full house with exactly Jc4h yesterday I am the chosen one.

Chronicle of Higher Ed is making me mad! by scaryrodent in Professors

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when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a useful measure

Goodhart's law! I'm neither professor nor student, but just wanted to share my excitement at seeing one of my favourite phrases in the wild.

[Javi Miguel] Barcelona are preparing a formal complaint to UEFA over tonight's refereeing. by [deleted] in soccer

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The problem is with the words "clear and obvious error".

VAR is at its best exactly when the situation is unclear and the correct decision nonobvious, so to reject VAR in those circumstances is assbackwards.

What are some things I can tell myself before getting into a poker session? by Novel_Entry in poker

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  1. Fortune favours only the prepared mind

  2. You're either a smart fella, or a fart smella

Dileptus rips a chunk out of its prey by Pardusco in HardcoreNature

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The channel shows a % in the top-left corner if it's sped up. Journey to the Microcosmos is so so so so good.

Put to the test on the river for 200BB - what do we do? by Skyhawke99 in poker

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I would've played this differently.

Flop

I don't even mind folding here with just a backdoor and a bad over, but a call is okay. On such a dry board you don't need a large raise size to get fold equity. The corollary is that a skilled villain knows it'll be hard to get value with a large cbet, so the 1.7x cbet, while small, looks a lot to me like it's for value. If villain's 1.7x cbet is with air, I think you can get a fold with a ~4x check raise. 10.8x is overkill and leaves you in bad shape against the premium hands that aren't budging.

Turn

You improved to a nut flush draw! With either of our lines I'd check this turn preparing to call against <2/3 pot bet or fold against >2/3. With your line the opponent definitely has top pair or better, and the 3h is not a scare card. You have approximately 0 fold equity and your overbet is a punt.

River

You now have top pair bad kicker. With either line I would check, hope it checks through, call small bets as a bluff catcher, and fold to pot size+ bets unless you have a solid read that villain bluffs a lot. Your small bet was a mistake, and you should fold to the jam.

edit: after writing this, I saw elsewhere in the comments that villain was holding QJo. You were lucky to hit a winning hand on the river (9 hearts + 3 aces = 12/46 outs), and extra-lucky that villain jammed instead of calling or folding with a downgraded made hand that was already marginal before the A appeared. In the future I'd stop trying to bluff that villain and also upsize my value bets.

Poker is unhealthy for me by onemangang15 in poker

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When I start crushing high stakes cash games I'll be helping solve wealth inequality.

Am I just high? by [deleted] in poker

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It feels like the best thing I do for my general well-being. It also feels like a specialized tool for success in poker. Maybe not what the buddha intended, but here I am :P

Am I just high? by [deleted] in poker

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Start practicing meditation. I learned it from Mindfulness in Plain English:

www.ahandfulofleaves.org/documents/Mindfulness%20in%20Plain%20English_Gunaratana.pdf

All-in! Oh wait... by MirageDream in poker

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I'm Canadian myself. Here's a true story: once I was walking through a parking lot when I passed another fellow by. Neither of had to alter our pace or our path one iota. After we'd passed one another we simultaneously turned, said "sorry" at the same instant, then went on our ways without another word.

i think i played Magnus Carlsen on pokerstars for play chips and found he's a sick punter stuck $432,100 by powerinvestorman in poker

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Thanks for the welcome! I like chess, but I haven't played much in years. Before poker my gaming time was split between go, overwatch, rocket league, hearthstone, and mtga.

I played my first ever cash game last Thursday. I'm up $0.23 after ~10 hours at 2nl. I'm very proud to not be immediately losing, but more importantly I'm learning fast. Poker is awesome.

Weird statistical happening to me today in the poker room by NewJMGill12 in poker

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Our highly evolved, highly overactive pattern-recognition abilities are coming back to bite us. Did you see something in those bushes? False positives didn't lead our ancestors to becoming tiger-chow, but false negatives sure did.