I do not have really opinion I have blur.
You made good point.My comments were just my own idiotic musing.”I have nothing to say and I’m going to say it.”
The only think I am sure that the increased role and prominence of Halloween in USA and the rest of the world.

I agree that it’s nice to have an impetus to focus on your significant other(s), your mother, your father, etc. I think it’s unfortunate the way guilt, obligation, anxiety, and other social pressures are harnessed to produce a churn of consumerism. Hopefully you’re close enough to at least a few people to cut through the BS and make clear to each other what is and is not actually important to you.

You’re probably aware that plenty of people complain that Halloween is losing its “true meaning” as well, ie that is increasingly about either dressing up as a branded character (for children) or something sexy and/or topical (for adults) rather than doing anything scary, pulling pranks, etc. Naturally both of these types of costumes are available pre-packaged.

But I don’t mean to make any claims about true meaning. It’s more a musing on why people who see a blatant marketing tactic for what it is go along with it anyway.

Good advice! Too bad you’re probably my only female reader :–)

The first line of your post really made me laugh… for quite a while. Thanks for that little seva, Pat.

Rituals:
In Christmas:The extended family meets for a day of feasting (on wholesome foods) with a traditionally family or religious focus.
In Halloween: Children leave home and family to join other children for an evening of pranks in order to obtain unwholesome sweets in a nonreligious atmosphere.
In Valentines: Two people meets for intimate meal and mandatory sex after the meal.

Gifts:
In Christmas rituals gifts are exchanged within the family and each one is personally and lovingly acknowledged.
In Halloween rituals non-family members provide gifts to masked and anonymous children who pose a vague menace.
In Valentines rituals two people exchange gifts with sexual undertones often .

The trends:
The meaning is not only one attribute who changed over time.
The significance and prominence of Halloween and Valentines is growing really fast in contemporary America.
Still Christmas is Nr1 as consumption holiday.
The trends from America are copied fast by the rest of the world.

In the old days, gifts (generally) meant something. You exchanged things of value that were not otherwise accessible to the other person, or group of people. Gift giving had a purpose and was an exchange of value and sincerity.

Buying crap at the store doesn’t show your love, and doesn’t serve any purpose other than to further the consumerist bullshit that is one of the worst travesties of capitalism.

Forget the cards that someone else designed and wrote, the flowers someone else grew and cut, the chocolates someone else made and stuffed with refined sugar. What does that shit mean, anyway?

Take the time to make something yourself, if you want to give a gift, or simply take your loved one for a walk on the beach and share some moments together which are infinitely more precious.

Oops, that comment was not meant to go there, sorry!

The cool thing about this spot seems to be that even if villain believes we are bluffing, there aren’t so many hands we can be bluffing with.* Arguably, this should mean villain should fold somewhat often. Parts of villain’s range are not doing so well: overpairs now all lose; and trips lose to flushes and better, and villain is less likely to have trips with two Q’s on board. Plus, we might expect villain to continue betting flushes on the turn, especially the low ones.

Given the overlay, that I think we can get a fold from enough of villain’s range and a little lack of imagination, I would bet a ‘normal’ amount — e.g., 2/3 pot (30k). This doesn’t seem to be a bad amount at all, given that villain can turn up with trickily played strong hands some of the time and that losing 30k (leaving villain a 20bb stack to work with) should provide sufficient disincentive for his curiousity. Also, we rep a wider value range (Qx and flushes) a bit more credibly compared to a bigger bet, e.g., the Qx might be somewhat worried about flushes.

Andrew, I would be interested to know your thoughts over the timing of your turn decisions. The fact that you took equally long to check and to call was pretty interesting, as presumably you made a plan ahead of checking so deciding what to do when facing a bet was a trivial decision, unless you changed your mind… But, maybe save that till Friday.

*Another point is that from villain’s perspective, our perception of his range should be quite strong — along the lines others have described (e.g., overpairs) — yet, we are still betting.