I would happily play DD with you and then sit in a Denny ' s and talk about Bigfoot for three hours . <| sep |> Yeah . Makes sense . And ? <| sep |> I think that the no ball check is costing the bowlers . The umpires rarely call no balls these days unless it is stupidly big , they have the safety net of it getting checked for wickets . If a bowler is bowling no balls that are not getting called , is it really fair that when he gets a wicket it gets checked and overturned ? <| sep |> Flatting pre seems bad to me . By 3 betting you take initiative in the pot allowing yourself to rep stronger hands , and button cant push you out of the pot as easily because you have strong holdings in your range such as big pairs , but when you flat you can ' t have these holdings . Also you get to play less hands OOP when you 3 bet because he will fold pre with his wide button raising range . As played , the reason I thought checkraising flop was better is because we can rep an 8 on the flop because we flatted out of the small blind . Also checkraising the flop seemed better to me because we have more equity against his range on the flop with 2 cards to come as opposed to one . Also when we checkraise the turn we are only repping 9 x . We can no longer have 8 x because we would never raise in this spot . If we checkraise the flop we can have an 8 or all our semibluffs .