Never speak ill of the dead.  Also never promote someone who has died to pseudo sainthood IMO.

This typo from the BBC did make me chuckle though.  The second one down, taken/ripped off of someone from Twitter.

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Go for some level 6 thinking and get dinner paid for as well.



Mask optional

David Milliband is to head the International Rescue Committee.

Well that's just FAB.

??

Sigh

International Rescue was the fictional organisation from Thunderbirds (The International Rescue Committee is a real life charity).

David Milliband was nicknamed 'Brains' in the media due to looking like that character from Thunderbirds, who used to say F-A-B when ready to go.

Thought it was a bit of an open goal tbh but obviously not as well known a reference as I thought.

David Milliband is to head the International Rescue Committee.

Well that's just FAB.

I heartedly recommend listening to classic video game soundtracks while grinding, I do it all the time, kind of chills me.  Things like Tekken 2, Final Fantasy soundtracks and such, plenty of playlists from them on the You Tube.  Just be careful when you search for them, you can end up wasting hours watching someone else play crap like Night Trap.

My problems with 3betting pre:  The table was very peel happy.  More of a problem was V2 had put a chip in the pot.  While most at the table weren't that perceptive, even the passing valet would know that he was 100% calling, giving people much better odds in their minds to peel as well.  Also if we get 4bet by OR it's a pretty trivial fold.

Ok. IMO the best way to exploit a Villian who is a station pre flop is to 3bet our value hands and I believe AQss falls into this category. If you had AK here would you 3 bet? If Villian 4bets a capped range only (KK/AA/AK) then sure we can pass. But if he flats our 3 bet with all aces, all queens we can get some clean value from him and win a big pot and we can put pressure on all his pairs that don't make sets. But what do I know I haven't won as much as you

I can see the point if this was going to go HU with V2 most of the time but it's not one station here, I'm OOP to the tube map pre.

Thank you all for the replies, I really appreciate them.

Result

I did jam.  I think I have a small amount of FE against V1 and good equity in the hand.  I think I have zero FE against V2 but great equity and will be ahead sometimes.

V1 took ten minutes of anguish over his decision, more tortured it was multiway and he couldn't directly talk to me about the hand.  After ten minutes he asked one of his friends at the table to call the clock on him, they obliged and 30 seconds into the clock he folded.  (In a comedy fashion he later claimed to have Queens after the competent player, a friend, already claimed that hand and is never lying here.  No idea what V1 had, maybe claimed Queens to make it sound like more of a fold when it was a 33 or something, maybe saving face with lower spades, Kings or such).

V2 snapped with  and we held.

Despite the result I still came away thinking I played the hand pretty crappy.  However after a friend of mine with a much better game said they thought I played the well I got thinking 'What else was I supposed to do?'

If it's ok I'd like some thoughts on the following:

My problems with 3betting pre:  The table was very peel happy.  More of a problem was V2 had put a chip in the pot.  While most at the table weren't that perceptive, even the passing valet would know that he was 100% calling, giving people much better odds in their minds to peel as well.  Also if we get 4bet by OR it's a pretty trivial fold.

My problems leading the flop:  I freely admit I don't donk lead enough, it's something I need to identify if and when to do so.  Maybe this is a clear lead.  I would have no problem leading/3betting to get it in if I thought that was going to be the result.  I just thought I would get at least 2 callers, maybe more, to a lead.  Then where do I go on a brick turn?  Am I getting myself ready to empty the clip?

My problems c/ring the flop first time round:  The competent player is either b/fing TT-QQ or betting sets/2p hands.  Of all the ranges on the table, he's the worst one for me to get it in with and I'm not sure raise/folding to him is the correct play.  Plus I have great odds to hit or get away on the turn, plus a full field to get value out of if I hit when plenty of worse draws can be in there as well as plenty of stubborn pairs.  I never saw V1 C/ring at the time, ingame was sure he would peel.

I think i'd c/r the flop

Yeah I considered this, pretty much was the original plan on the flop.  The problem I had was that we were still six way the second time it came around to me, one person who I know isn't light and who will know that they are not always beat if I c/r.  The table was pretty loose passive too, just had visions of getting four callers and seeing a blank turn roll off.  Now I've bloated the pot OOP and lost half of my equity in the hand, now what?

Re:  Leading the flop, truth be told I don't donk lead enough (in other words, ever.  Meh, at least it's balanced that way).  I know I have to start doing it but I'm not sure this was the spot to pop that particular cherry.

Thought I was already in this.  In now.

Is the 1st caller who led post-flop for 1200 still in the hand and to act behind you? If yes, and you're assigning 2 pair/sets to them then it's a fold surely, only 1200 invested? If he folded to the check-raise by villain 1 then def shoving based on the info you have

This logic looks wrong.  The more people in the pot, the more chips are in the pot and the better the shove or call is.  If the non pairing spade hits we scoop no matter if there are 5 villians or just 1 in the pot.

The post flop leader has folded.

Background:

SPT Stratford, the table is mostly locals with a few Sky Players.  With the exception of 2 or 3 players, the table standard is pretty soft.  Player on my left is a kid who seems to have never played live before so I've been trying to help him out.  About 15 minutes ago he's just caused a bit of uproar by, when asked by the local on his left (Villain 1) if he'd show if he folded to which he agreed, then he went on to hand his cards in face down.  The general atmosphere is a little prickly.  Locals don't like the kids, kids don't care.

Villain 1 - Two to my left, local, very very very vocal.  Has twice taken an aggressive strong line and then folded to returned strength (including the hand I mentioned above).  Turning up with decent aces, all broadways at showdown.  Bit of a cockney and cocky geezer.  Been very chatty with the two on my right.  Has so far open limped and opened to 5x.

Villain 2 - Barmy.  Three to my right, he's wearing the full gear of hoodie, sunglasses and Beats headphones.  Constantly shaking while in a pot.  Has been seen to double float with J5 no pair no draw and been snapped on river, has chased all draws all the way, taken really weird lines and been coming in to 85% of pots, nearly always by calling.  Has bounced between 40k and 15k a couple of times already.

30k Starting stack, we're down to 23k.  We haven't shown anything funky to date, made a couple of folds in half decent pots.  Haven't been that active really but not many at the table would have paid attention to this.

Hero in SB with   
Blinds 100/200

Villain 1 (playing about 35k) UTG opens to 600
Three callers by the time it gets to me.
We flat, BB comes along.

Flop

 

We check, as does BB.
Villain 1 checks.
The original first caller leads for 1200 (very competent player who I have tons of history with, probably hardest spot at the table, never leading here light, has between over pairs and sets)
Two callers (including Villain 2) by the time it gets to me, I flat (thoughts?), BB folds
Villain 1 now C/raises to 7k more
All fold to villain 2, who calls.
To me, now playing 21kish, what do you do?  And what do you do different?

Both Villains cover, Vilian 2 starting the hand with about 28k

If anyone has bought 'Aspire' in the budget I think they'll be able to buy a new house tomorrow.  Very much the buzz word.

you'd be part of the "Aspiration Nation"....

Sounds like a Christian Rap Group.  I think I've got their debut album 'Mary ain't no ho' somewhere....

If anyone has bought 'Aspire' in the budget I think they'll be able to buy a new house tomorrow.  Very much the buzz word.

[In for Ftops h/l today?)]

Twitter at 25/1 with Lads and 33/1 with Satan James. Seems huge

Triple A rating is 5/1 with Laddies and Satan 2/1

£10 Triple A rating and £5 Twitter?

edit: Hard working families seems a good choice.

Triple A seems a bad bet to me.  You don't mention your total fails in politics.  I like the twitter bet too, even gramps goes on twitter these days.

Yeah, can't be 33/1.

I understand your point about Triple A, future target/we aim for side to it as well though. At 5/1 it doesn't seem a bad bet. (In for Ftops h/l today?)Happy birthday Tal!

What time does that start?

11.00 ET, so think it will be 4pm.  Though stars has been an hour out this last week, so it may be 3.  Too early for me whichever it is.

Stars have already switched to Daylight savings or whatever you call that in the States/Outside of the UK.  I imagine FT would have done the same, although don't know for sure.

Baffles me why they wanted him in the first place

He came out of Portsmouth with some credit considering what a mess they were in when he took over, more for how he conducted himself rather than results and was doing ok at Blackpool.  Why he left there to go to Blackburn I don't know.

That said I kinda agree as to why they went after him, it was an odd one.