[JimmyV]

Elysium,

This thread was over in terms of poker substance as soon as you said in your first post that you knew what to do "In hindsight." What you meant by this was not that results and reflection had shown you the proper play, but that reflection on your own post in progress had shown you in hindsight what the body of the POST should have said.

The post should have said, "I gave up a ton of EV and then oh yeah, also, someone else made his draw. Funny old thing, life." (In other words, I agree with Paluka and Ulysses.)

You're smarter than this. Bet the flop and try, for variance, to not be a nincompoop. Bet and raise. This is what nuts+redraws is all about. Others will build the pot, and you should have realized before your initial flop action that the check-raise was inappropriate. Bet and re-raise, and build the stairway to a large pot one riser at a time (cf. on the metaphor Ashley Adams' new stud book, under "Adding to your repertoire").

The real substance of this post w/r/t EV is only the question of whether the huge volume of crystal meth you're consuming justifies an in-home lab, and if so whether you begin pretty quickly to develop economies of scale that justify your developing a clientele, whether wholesale or retail. It's clear that you're just smoking TONS of the stuff.

Your fan,

JimmyV