Another strikeout from the preschool we visited today. They said all of the right things, and they frequently do, but there was some out and out bullying by the staff going on. We were only there about 50 minutes or so, but it was easy to pick out the kid that everyone thought was the "problem" in the group. He was teased a little at snack time, and my wife said she never saw anyone laugh and play with him. At "outside time" he didn't want to wear his jacket. I was just hanging out watching how the adults interacted with the kids. He threw his jacket emphatically on the ground and went on playing. When the teacher came out and saw the jacket on the ground, she looked really pissed and knew exactly whose it was. She picked it up and marched towards him, and he headed for higher ground on the jungle gym. She stationed a parent at the bottom of the slide and started climbing up after him. When he escaped down the slide, the parent grabbed him pretty hard, and lifted him up, handing him to the teacher. I thought, omg, they are going to physically force him to wear his jacket. But instead, the teacher carried him inside to his mother (it was a co-op so the parents are around). The kid points out that some of the other kids aren't wearing jackets, but the teacher says they didn't come to school with any and he needs to decide on staying inside or playing outside with his jacket. How f*cked up is that? First of all, if you have to physically dominate a 4 year old over what is basically a minor non-compliance issue, I think you can just give up your teaching career. Maybe they were being nice because I was there watching, who knows what normally goes on. Then, he can't be outside without his jacket because it is too cold, but it is somehow not too cold for the other kids who have no jacket? I am sorry, but they are just picking on him. And his mother was right there condoning it with her silence. I feel sorry for the poor kid. What kind of future does he have if everyone already thinks he is the bad kid and treats him different from everyone else? He is only four years old, and I am already seeing a lot of self esteem obstacles for him to overcome. Super upsetting. My kid will not be attending.

Been looking over some of my hands. Here is one moderately interesting hand and one butchered hand.

BTN is 66/12 70 hands---v. spewy, calling down with second pair on very connected boards.
BB is 38/0 after 13 hands

Grabbed by Holdem Manager
NL Holdem $0.25(BB) Replayer
SB ($35.05)
BB ($24.25)
UTG ($32.75)
Hero ($27.91)
BTN ($14.10)

Dealt to Hero Q T

fold, Hero raises to $0.85, BTN calls $0.85, fold, BB calls $0.60

FLOP ($2.65) T Q A

BB checks, Hero bets $2.25, BTN folds, [color=red]BB raises to $9.40,

I felt like I needed to bet the flop for value vs. BTN (I opened this hand oop vs him coz I thought he was sooooo bad), but once I get c/r on the flop by the BB, this is an easy fold. Even if you include every conceivable combination of Axdd in his range (and maybe he just c/c with a lot of them), we only have 25% equity vs villain's range of Axdd, sets, straights, and better two pair hands.

If we have top two pair, and villain doesn't make this play with QT, we have like 44% equity, if villain c/r us with QT here, we have 50% equity. I am assuming he just c/c with his pair and a gutshot type hands like AJ, QJ, KQ, KT, which I think is fairly accurate for someone playing 38/0 even if the sample size is a bit smallish.

If we have top and bottom pair, we are around 30%. So you can see the equity difference between bottom two and top two pair. I think a lot of the time, people just see 2pair and are willing to stack off (I used to be that way), but when you think about villain's range, it is much less clear.


Here is a hand that I butchered.


UTG is 22/4 over 46 hands
CO is 8/8 but only over 12 hands
BTN is 98/9 47 hands---I am not kidding



NL Holdem $0.25(BB) Replayer
SB ($37.38)
Hero ($25.46)
UTG ($40.40)
UTG+1 ($25.67)
CO ($49.17)
BTN ($23.13)

Dealt to Hero 8 7

UTG calls $0.25, fold, CO raises to $1.10, BTN calls $1.10, fold, Hero calls $0.85, UTG calls $0.85

FLOP ($4.50) 6 9 8

Hero bets $3.25, UTG folds, CO calls $3.25, BTN calls $3.25

TURN ($14.25) 6 9 8 A

Hero bets $7.75, CO raises to $21, BTN folds, Hero folds

CO wins $28.27

On the flop, I think I can just check. If the pfr doesn't cbet, and idk what he cbets into 3 other people on this board, then I just got to see a cheap turn and possibly hit my draw. The only thing a donk out here achieves, possibly, is give me some HU action vs. the huge donk on the BTN who peels this flop with an incredibly wide range. It would be better if the donk were in the CO and the pfr on the BTN, though. Once I am called by the pfr, I can just shut down unless I hit my draw. The A is probably the worst card in the deck to bet at since it hit's the CO range much stronger than mine and the BTN will never fold an Ace here, and I most likely do not have an A having donked the flop.

I have been thinking a lot about this hand and why I played it this way and I have very few answers and they are all very weak. I had played 47 hands with one of the hugest fish I have come across, and I wasn't able to make any hands against him, so I started to force things out of frustration. I also tend to play my draws very aggressively as a default, especially when I am frustrated by the session (and I mean by the results of my session which means I have some preconceived idea about how much money I should be winning when I play, which just leads me to tilt and play poorly). I almost didn't even post this hand, because I was a little ashamed of it, but it came at the end of an otherwise solid session and I am just trying to make sense of it all before I play a session and want to give myself some markers to watch for.

Play well. Do good work. Keep in touch.

PFJ