parsifals

thanks for actually answering this question... as a former pro player in online cash games it bothers me when I see people claim X amount of "winnings" or "earnings" from their tournament scores, when in reality, their ROIs are low as shit or they've been largely backed and maybe even run bad on the pieces they've bought. There are, as you're certainly aware, a lot of fake "pros" out there.

Your candor is appreciated.

See, that was a good call. It took me several tries to break the lead fucking crystal glass my ex wife's evil aunt planted in that tiny sack, and I still haven't lived it down. I took some shit for it just last week in fact and that was more than ten years ago.

Entrapment is the skimpiest defense at law imaginable, and no, it doesn't even apply in this scenario, which is awful. Honestly when you're in class in law school, the hard part is coming up with any sort of circumstances where entrapment WOULD apply. They can offer you all sorts of things. It's only when they threaten or exert other forms of overbearing pressure that the acts rise to the level of entrapment.

You might argue that in the context of him losing his job, the pressure of the money offer was overbearing, but there is ample case law where the government makes ridiculous OFFERS to people and the fact that they're merely offers obviates the defense.

i want to disagree with you and say that eliminating big hands from someone's 3b/4b/5b/shove range just based on something like "he would probably 4bet small" is just an attempt to skew numbers to look like what we want them to look like.

but it's still a mandatory call, i think.

I toured a local distillery that used hops in its wash--I see elsewhere you commented that they'd be problematic for a home distiller, but I'm wondering what are your thoughts on their impact, if any, on the final product? This distiller was of the (I'd call it) aesthetic perspective that the wash should begin as a drinkable beer.