Rock(y)solid

This is sick. Like a month ago or something you wrote something about moving down to 2/4 and feeling like a demigod and I did the same and felt the same. And over like 13k hands I was up like 20bi, but down a fair bit in showdown pots.

sick hand analysis there

much respect

grats on being back to winning but that 22 hand is really bad imo. i understand your logic and think A8 is the same hand as say 777 on this board for the same reasons but 22 is def way worse and is a pretty horrible bluff catcher because of how often u lose to pure bluffs on showdown. i also think check calling flop is awful too, as you mentioned u were considering doing that

Meh I think my logic is pretty sound. I've played with the guy a ton and I'm a pretty intuitive player and the way the session was going I figured this was the best way to play it (and why I thought he was on air here). I think any hand with showdown value he would check down except A-high. He's also not the type to make thin valueshoves here with 2 pair or a king. Also, I'm very certain about his preflop calling range here.

Honestly I'm not really sure what I'd do if he had bet the flop though and a bet is probably better as a standard but the way the session was going (he was tilting a bit 5bet shoving hands like QTs and A4s PF) I figured he would be more prone to make a huge bluff there. It just felt off on the river which is why I made the (correct) call trusting my gut (I'm not often wrong making big calls fwiw).

Appreciate the input though.

Nice recovery for sure! GL quali for San Remo

That red line sure is sexy.