[chesspain]

Major,

Thanks for taking the time to post this well-written lesson. I do have to admit, however, that I initially felt somewhat rattled by your words, for although I believe that I usually am fairly cognizant of pot odds when it comes to chasing, I tend to underuse checkraises, and I also tend to laydown on the river for one bet when it seems clear that my second/third pair is beaten.

In addition, soon after reading your post, I proceeded to lose approx. 12BB in a Party 1/2 game, in part due to playing A4s from MP in a soft game and then getting dominated after the flop. Oh well [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Following this discombulation, I rested for a few hours, and then hosted my bimonthly 1/2 home game. I reminded myself to play aggressively when the opportunities would present themselves.

During one of the final orbits of the night, we were playing seven-handed HE and I was dealt AJo in the BB. I believe four or five others called, and I checked. The flop came AJ7r. I checked, solid ABC player to my left raised, an LAG coldcalled, folded back to me and I checkraised, to which LAG muttered loudly:

"Man, that's like the fifteenth time you checkraised tonight; 'Yeah, come to my house, everybody, so I can checkraise you.'"

That was the best poker compliment I ever received [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]