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mitch, i appreciate your feedback

due to overwhelming arguments against the play, i am hoping i had some sort of subconscious body language read on him i am not aware of, other than that it seems this play goes against code - appreciate the useful feedback

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This thread is a good example of the type of hand I would never post on 2+2. 99% of the time your river check/raise will be terrible. 1% of the time it will be genius. When you post a hand like this you will inevitably get responses targeted for the 99% category, and then youre left with the burden of trying to convince everyone it was in the 1% category. From reading this thread, it looks like you dont even know if this hand is in that exclusive 1% group so I can safely conclude that your river check/raise was a mistake, but even if you were right and this hand did belong to that 1% category, do you really want make this thread and then have to go through all that trouble of explaining to eveyone why your right. Seems like an exhuasting excercise to me. I guess thats a big reason why I dont start alot of threads myself.

Every day I make atleast a few plays that would make most 2+2ers say WTF are you doing? And the reality is, if my play is wrong I'll quickly figure it out myself thus not needing any 2+2er's help, and if my play is right, it seems like a waste of time to post it on 2+2 and futilely try to show everyone the light.

BTW, ship it, I disagree with you that my initial post was worthless. You should never make any play some X percentage of the time. You should simply concentrate on making the best possible play all the time. Too many players piss away lots of money in their fruitless quest to be tricky and unpredictable. Heres the amusing part: What these players dont realize is, if they always simply tried to make the best play possible they would end up looking more tricky/unpredictable than they could ever desire.

There are so many spots in limit holdem where it will be correct to raise with a calling hand, raise with a folding hand, call with a raising hand, and call with a folding hand and so on. These spots do not come up very often, but the great players are always prepared to seize the moment when they come. And thats why in full ring holdem you dont have to "mix" up your play. If you play extremely well, everything else will take care of itself.