{
  "schema_version": "1.3",
  "table_size": 2,
  "id": "bad-blockers-giveup",
  "format": "multi_option",
  "free": true,
  "rebuild": "v2",
  "provenance_class": "dealt_hand",
  "updated_at": "2026-08-08T00:00:00Z",
  "source": {
    "session_id": "ExploitativeSmallPotPoker",
    "verdict_audio": "quiz/audio/bad-blockers-giveup.m4a",
    "ser_sentences": [140, 142, 143, 144, 170, 196],
    "lesson_slug": null,
    "master_slug": "ExploitativeSmallPotPoker_master",
    "master_t": 340.3,
    "hand_record": {
      "lane": "FRAME_READ",
      "screen": "Eric's shared screen — his own note app (left tree: 2025 > may > 5.20.2025, i.e. the previous night's session he introduces at SER s51-s52 'these are yesterday's sessions'), showing a pasted hand-history record of a hand HE played. Not a replayer and not a solver grid: a complete action log with both stacks, every street's pot, every size, and the result. Frames are READ-ONLY provenance and are never aired — the record's header carries the poker-room name (no-operator-branding policy), so no fixture surface repeats it.",
      "stake": {
        "source": "RECORD_HEADER",
        "label": "$2 NL Hold'em",
        "usd_per_bb": null,
        "note": "Header verbatim off my own 4x crop of frame t=540: '<room> - $2 NL - Holdem'. The record is denominated natively in BB on every line ('SB posts SB 0.5 BB', 'Hero raises to 10.84 BB', 'River (60.9 BB, 2 players)') and this fixture copies those BB figures verbatim — NO $-to-bb conversion was performed anywhere, and no dollar amount appears in the fixture. CAUTION recorded for future readers: the GTO Wizard window Tyler opens later on THIS hand (frame t=760) reads 'Cash 100bb / Heads-up NL500 / Advanced' — NL500 is the SOLVER's game type, not this hand's stake. The hand's stake is the record header's $2 NL."
      },
      "video_t": [175, 620],
      "frames": [
        "t=540 (scratchpad dh3/bad-blockers-giveup/f/f_540.jpg + z540_header.png) — the record scrolled to its TOP. Verbatim: '<room> - $2 NL - Holdem' / 'Hero (BB): 111.3 BB' / 'SB (SB): 101.99 BB' / 'SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB'. EXACTLY TWO players are listed and no seat folds preflop.",
        "t=476 and t=468 and t=185 (f_476.jpg, f_468.jpg, g_185.jpg + z476_note.png / z476_cards.png / z476_turnriver.png) — the record scrolled to the body, identical across a 5-minute span: 'Dealt to Hero: [5][8]' / 'SB raises to 2 BB, Hero calls 1 BB' / 'Flop (4 BB, 2 players): [9][4][6]' / 'Hero checks, SB bets 3 BB, Hero raises to 10.84 BB, SB calls 7.84 BB' / 'Turn (25.68 BB, 2 players): [3]' / 'Hero bets 17.61 BB, SB calls 17.61 BB' / 'River (60.9 BB, 2 players): [K]' / 'Hero checks, SB bets 30 BB, fold' / 'SB wins 60.4 BB'.",
        "t=466 (f_466.jpg) — the share 2 seconds EARLIER is Tyler's Excel population workbook (a fold-frequency/EV grid whose sheet tab names the room's pool and a 2020-2025 span; the room name is redacted here for the same no-operator-branding reason as the record header). The screen flips to Eric's hand record between t=466 and t=468, i.e. the blocker verdict s140-s144 (465.76-477.90) is delivered OVER THE HAND, not over the spreadsheet. Nothing from that workbook is displayed or aired (rule 7).",
        "t=600 (f_600.jpg) — the record is still open behind Eric's Anki window while Tyler speaks the transferable tag s196 (602.65-607.81).",
        "t=1900 (f_1900.jpg) — THE STRUCTURE PROOF. A different hand in the SAME note file prints 'CO (CO): 101.3 BB / Hero (BTN): 100 BB / SB (SB): 119.23 BB / BB (BB): 98.32 BB' and the action line 'fold, Hero raises to 2.5 BB, fold, BB calls 1.5 BB'. The record therefore lists EVERY seated player and prints EVERY fold. Our hand lists exactly two players and no folds, so exactly two were dealt: it is a genuine heads-up pot and the SB is the button (heads-up the button posts the small blind), which is why the SB acts LAST postflop in the log.",
        "t=1000 (f_1000.jpg) and t=2100 (f_2100.jpg) — two more structure corroborations. t=1000: the NEXT hand in the same file is also a two-name record ('Hero (SB): 100 BB / BB (BB): 101.5 BB'), so Eric played a run of two-handed hands that night. t=2100: his PokerTracker 'Results by stake' grid lists a '$2 NL (2 max)' row alongside the 6-max rows — heads-up $2 NL is a game he actually played. Read-only; no HUD or results numeral is displayed.",
        "t=760 (g_760.jpg + z760_board.png / z760_hands.png / z760_preset.png) — INDEPENDENT CARD CORROBORATION, read-only. Tyler opens GTO Wizard on this exact runout: the Overview strip prints the board tiles 9(black) 6(red) 4(black) 3(green) K(blue) and the Hands panel labels the combos with explicit suit glyphs — '8♠5♠', '8♥5♥', '8♦5♦', '8♣5♣'. That fixes the record's colour tiles to real suits and confirms hero's combo is the SPADE one. Preset 'Cash 100bb / Heads-up NL500', tree SB 'Raise 2.5' → BB 'Call' → flop BB check / SB Bet 3.35 (67%) / BB Raise 9.2 (50%) / SB Call → turn BB 'Bet 15.7 (67%)' / SB Call → river node BB, pot 54.8, 72.6 behind. It is a MODEL of the played line at similar-but-not-equal prices (real hand: pot 4 / 25.68 / 60.9, ~102 BB effective), so none of its numbers are used or displayed anywhere in this quiz.",
        "t=900 (g_900.jpg) — Eric has pasted that same solver EV table into his note with his own typed comments ('as played we should have bet larger on the turn and jammed river accord[ing] to wizard'; '85hh would make a better river jam as played than spades'). Read-only: Eric's post-session solver commentary is not Tyler's ruling and is not displayed or aired."
      ],
      "log_verbatim": [
        "$2 NL - Holdem",
        "Hero (BB): 111.3 BB",
        "SB (SB): 101.99 BB",
        "SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB",
        "Dealt to Hero: [5][8]",
        "SB raises to 2 BB, Hero calls 1 BB",
        "Flop (4 BB, 2 players): [9][4][6]",
        "Hero checks, SB bets 3 BB, Hero raises to 10.84 BB, SB calls 7.84 BB",
        "Turn (25.68 BB, 2 players): [3]",
        "Hero bets 17.61 BB, SB calls 17.61 BB",
        "River (60.9 BB, 2 players): [K]",
        "Hero checks, SB bets 30 BB, fold",
        "SB wins 60.4 BB"
      ],
      "suit_derivation": "The record renders cards as colour tiles with no pips. Its palette is internally decodable from this hand alone — [5][8][9][4] render dark grey/black, [6] red, [3] green, [K] blue, i.e. the standard 4-colour deck (black spades, red hearts, green clubs, blue diamonds); I sampled the tile backgrounds numerically off f_476.jpg (5/8/9/4 ≈ (121,121,121); 6 = (178,50,66); 3 = (70,153,65); K = (90,127,170)). It is then confirmed independently by Tyler's GTO Wizard view of the same runout at t=760, which prints suit GLYPHS: board 9♠ 6♥ 4♠ 3♣ K♦ and the combo panel '8♠5♠'. So hero = 5♠8♠, board = 9♠ 4♠ 6♥ / 3♣ / K♦ (flop in the record's own left-to-right order; the solver's 9-6-4 is its descending sort, not deal order). Spades are LOAD-BEARING here — the whole verdict is 'bluffing spades on a neutral river' — and they are sourced twice, not invented.",
      "seat_derivation": "TWO players dealt. Header lists only 'Hero (BB)' and 'SB (SB)'; the preflop line goes straight from the blind posts to 'SB raises to 2 BB' with no fold printed; every street header says '2 players'. The sibling hand at t=1900 in the same file proves the record's format lists all seated players AND prints folds, so a two-name header means a two-handed hand. Heads-up the button posts the small blind, so SB = BTN and acts LAST postflop — which is exactly the log's order (Hero checks then SB bets on the flop; Hero leads the turn unopposed).",
      "stacks": "Start: hero 111.3 BB, villain 101.99 BB → effective 101.99 BB. Each player invests 2 (preflop) + 10.84 (flop) + 17.61 (turn) = 30.45 by the river decision. Chips BEHIND at the decision (what the felt plates show): hero 111.3 − 30.45 = 80.85; villain 101.99 − 30.45 = 71.54. Effective behind at the river = 71.54 BB, so a hero jam would be 71.54 into 60.9.",
      "pot_reconciliation": "Every street pot the record prints is reproduced exactly by the logged sizes: preflop 2+2 = 4 ('Flop (4 BB)'); +10.84+10.84 = 25.68 ('Turn (25.68 BB)'); +17.61+17.61 = 60.90 ('River (60.9 BB)'). The result line reconciles too: 60.9 + 30 − 30 returned = 60.9 gross, printed 'SB wins 60.4 BB' after 0.5 BB rake.",
      "result": "Hero checked the river, villain bet 30 BB into 60.9, hero folded ('Hero checks, SB bets 30 BB, fold' / 'SB wins 60.4 BB'). READ-ONLY: the quiz stops at hero's decision and airs no result. Hero's actual play IS the graded answer, and Tyler endorses it (s170).",
      "verdict_alignment": "The graded node is the river with hero first to act. Tyler's ruling lands there and nowhere else: s136-s137 ('you don't get an over fold on that node on the river' / 'on generic river, there's no over fold and you have bad blockers'), s140/s142/s143/s144 (the aired blocker argument), s170 ('this is just a good give up'), s196 ('bluffing spades on a neutral river is almost always bad'), generalised at s207 ('that never really changes'). He names hero's holding three times — s85/s107/s111 'you have a straight flush draw' — which is true only of 5♠8♠ on 9♠4♠6♥ (spade draw plus the 5-6-8-9 gutshot to the 7♠). He recaps the action shape at s76: 'the particular node you went on where you check raise the flop and then you bet turn' = the record's flop raise to 10.84 and turn bet of 17.61."
    }
  },
  "context": "$2 NL ONLINE · HEADS-UP, 2 DEALT · SB vs BB SINGLE-RAISED POT",
  "hero": {
    "pos": "BB",
    "cards": ["5s", "8s"],
    "stack_bb": 80.85,
    "avatar": "lono_ghoul"
  },
  "seats": [
    {
      "pos": "SB",
      "avatar": "ghoul_97",
      "stack_bb": 71.54,
      "villain": true,
      "button": true
    }
  ],
  "streets": [
    {
      "name": "preflop",
      "actions": [
        { "pos": "SB", "act": "open", "to_bb": 2 },
        { "pos": "hero", "act": "call" }
      ],
      "pot_bb": 4
    },
    {
      "name": "flop",
      "board": ["9s", "4s", "6h"],
      "actions": [
        { "pos": "hero", "act": "check" },
        { "pos": "SB", "act": "bet", "to_bb": 3 },
        { "pos": "hero", "act": "raise", "to_bb": 10.84 },
        { "pos": "SB", "act": "call" }
      ],
      "pot_bb": 25.68
    },
    {
      "name": "turn",
      "board": ["9s", "4s", "6h", "3c"],
      "actions": [
        { "pos": "hero", "act": "bet", "to_bb": 17.61 },
        { "pos": "SB", "act": "call" }
      ],
      "pot_bb": 60.9
    },
    {
      "name": "river",
      "board": ["9s", "4s", "6h", "3c", "Kd"],
      "actions": []
    }
  ],
  "prompt": "5♠8♠ · YOUR FLUSH DRAW AND GUTSHOT BOTH MISSED · K♦ RIVER, YOU ACT FIRST INTO 60.9 — BLUFF, OR GIVE UP?",
  "pot_bb": 60.9,
  "options": [
    { "id": "bluff", "label": "BLUFF" },
    { "id": "giveup", "label": "GIVE UP" }
  ],
  "correct": "giveup",
  "option_feedback": {
    "bluff": "A bluff needs hands that fold — and 5♠8♠ is holding those hands hostage. Your 8 blocks the eight-sevens he always folds. Your 5♠ is the very card in the ace-five he'd have floated with. And the busted spades you want him to surrender, you're holding two of. Take the folders out and the part of his range that's left is the part that calls.",
    "giveup": "Correct — Tyler: this is just a good give up. The K♦ is a neutral river that buys you no extra folds, and your blockers are horrendous: you block eight-seven, you block the ace-five with the five of spades, you block the spades that floated. Bluffing your own busted suit here is almost always bad."
  },
  "verdict_text": "Yeah, I think they're awful blockers, because he'll always fold eight-seven. He'll always fold like ace-five that floated here. He always folds the spades that floated. It's really — your blockers are horrendous. This is just a good give up. And basically, bluffing spades on a neutral river is almost always bad.",
  "principle": "A busted draw can be the worst bluff you hold — the cards that made your draw are the same cards his folding hands need. Block his folds and only his calls are left.",
  "concept": "bad-blockers-block-his-folds",
  "concepts_secondary": [],
  "topic": "blockers",
  "difficulty": 5,
  "aired_transcript": "Yeah, I think they're awful blockers because he'll always fold 8-7. He'll always fold like ace-5 that floated here, he always folds the spades that floated. It's really, your blockers are horrendous. Like this is just a good give up and basically bluffing spades on a neutral river is almost always bad.",
  "aired_transcript_note": "Verbatim faster-whisper small.en re-ASR of the re-cut quiz/audio/bad-blockers-giveup.m4a (19.25s, 2026-08-08). RE-CUT this rebuild: beats s140 + s142-s144 + s196 were already registered, but none of them aired Tyler's RULING while the quiz grades 'GIVE UP' as correct. Added s170 trimmed to w1473-1479 ('this is just a good give up'); its spoken head 'So basically like' and abandoned tail 'and it's just' are dropped. Drift, disclosed: the splice pads into the preceding 'like' and the following 'and', which the re-ASR hears as 'Like this is just a good give up and basically…' — a natural join, no invented content. ASR renders the spoken card names as '8-7' and 'ace-5'; SER's s140 transcript reads 'you'll always fold eight seven' but the AUDIO says 'he'll' (Tyler self-corrects in s141 'He'll always fold'), so the aired words and verdict_text agree. No stakes, positions, sizes, percentages or population magnitudes are aired.",
  "pct_provenance": {},
  "size_claims": {
    "_note": "No size adjective appears in any displayed string or in the aired clip, so no band check is triggered. Entries document the real sizes read off the record (frames t=476/t=540) for coherence.",
    "sb flop bet 3": {
      "street": "flop",
      "actor": "SB",
      "to_bb": 3,
      "pct_of_pot": 75.0,
      "source": "record 'SB bets 3 BB' into the settled 4 BB pot ('Flop (4 BB, 2 players)')"
    },
    "hero flop raise to 10.84": {
      "street": "flop",
      "actor": "hero",
      "to_bb": 10.84,
      "source": "record 'Hero raises to 10.84 BB, SB calls 7.84 BB'; Tyler's spoken recap of the same action, s76 'you check raise the flop'"
    },
    "hero turn bet 17.61": {
      "street": "turn",
      "actor": "hero",
      "to_bb": 17.61,
      "pct_of_pot": 68.6,
      "source": "record 'Hero bets 17.61 BB' into the settled 25.68 BB pot ('Turn (25.68 BB, 2 players)'); Tyler's recap s76 'and then you bet turn'"
    },
    "villain river bet 30 (after the graded decision, not displayed)": {
      "street": "river",
      "actor": "SB",
      "to_bb": 30,
      "pct_of_pot": 49.3,
      "source": "record 'Hero checks, SB bets 30 BB, fold' — this happens AFTER hero's graded decision and appears on no displayed surface"
    }
  },
  "claims": [
    {
      "text": "the graded decision is hero first to act on the river into a settled pot of 60.9 BB with no bet pending",
      "lhs": "river state",
      "op": "=",
      "rhs": "settled 60.9 BB, bets {}",
      "source": "record header 'River (60.9 BB, 2 players)' then 'Hero checks…' (frames t=476/t=468/t=185); hero is BB and heads-up the BB acts first postflop"
    },
    {
      "text": "pot chain reconciles to the record's own printed street pots: 2+2 = 4, +10.84x2 = 25.68, +17.61x2 = 60.90",
      "lhs": "pot by street",
      "op": "=",
      "rhs": "4 / 25.68 / 60.9",
      "source": "record's printed 'Flop (4 BB…)', 'Turn (25.68 BB…)', 'River (60.9 BB…)' recomputed from its own logged sizes (frames t=476/t=540)"
    },
    {
      "text": "chips behind at the decision: hero 80.85, villain 71.54; effective 71.54 BB, so a jam would be 71.54 into 60.9",
      "lhs": "start stacks minus invested",
      "op": "=",
      "rhs": "111.3-30.45 = 80.85 and 101.99-30.45 = 71.54",
      "source": "record header 'Hero (BB): 111.3 BB' / 'SB (SB): 101.99 BB' (frame t=540); invested 2+10.84+17.61 = 30.45 from the logged lines"
    },
    {
      "text": "hero's holding is a flush draw PLUS a gutshot on the flop — a combo draw, but NOT a straight-flush draw, because the six is a heart; the busted-spade story is still the hand's whole arc",
      "lhs": "5♠8♠ on 9♠4♠6♥",
      "op": "=",
      "rhs": "four spades (9♠ 4♠ 8♠ 5♠) = flush draw, plus the 5-6-8-9 gutshot to the seven; a straight flush would need BOTH the 6♠ and the 7♠, so it was never a live draw (a 7♠ makes a flush and a straight, not a straight flush)",
      "source": "cards read off the record's 4-colour tiles (t=476), confirmed by the solver's suit glyphs (t=760) and by the browser tab title '9s6h4s3cKd' (my own 7x crop of t=750). TAPE-VS-PIXELS, disclosed: Tyler says 'you have a straight flush draw' three times (s85, s107, s111) — loose shorthand for the combo draw, since the six is a heart. Eric describes the same holding correctly one sentence earlier (s108, 'gut shot straight, gut shot, flush draw on the flop'). Pixels outrank the tape, so the 'straight flush' wording appears on NO displayed surface and in no aired word"
    },
    {
      "text": "the run-out bricks every draw: the turn 3♣ and river K♦ are both off-suit blanks for a spade draw and neither completes 5-6-8-9",
      "lhs": "turn 3♣ / river K♦",
      "op": "=",
      "rhs": "no spade, no seven",
      "source": "record 'Turn … [3]' green tile = clubs, 'River … [K]' blue tile = diamonds (t=476), both confirmed by the solver's glyph strip 9♠6♥4♠3♣K♦ (t=760)"
    },
    {
      "text": "READ-ONLY corroboration, displayed nowhere: on Tyler's GTO Wizard view of this runout (t=760) the 8♠5♠ combo's river EV column is flat and near zero for every bet size while the 8♥5♥ / 8♦5♦ / 8♣5♣ combos are worth multiples of it — the blocker effect Tyler argues on tape. Those figures belong to a 100bb 'Heads-up NL500' sim with a 54.8 BB river pot and 72.6 behind, NOT to this hand's 60.9 BB pot and 71.54 behind, so no solver number is displayed or aired.",
      "lhs": "solver EV of 8♠5♠ vs its other suit combos",
      "op": "<",
      "rhs": "same-rank off-spade combos, in the sim's units",
      "source": "own frame t=760, Hands panel; preset strip 'Cash 100bb / Heads-up NL500'"
    },
    {
      "text": "the hand was played by Eric the previous night, not narrated hypothetically",
      "lhs": "provenance",
      "op": "=",
      "rhs": "dealt_hand",
      "source": "the record sits in his note tree under 2025 > may > 5.20.2025 and the session clock reads 5/21/2025 (frame t=476); Eric s52 'this is yesterday's session', s53-s55 his own regrets about this hand ('I think I missed a river jam… I should have chapped raise larger on the flop'), s175 'how bad this hand made me feel yesterday'"
    }
  ],
  "unverifiable_claims": [
    "The villain seat carries NO name and NO player-type label. Tyler states no read on this opponent anywhere in the segment — his folding claims (s140/s142/s143) are range statements about the SB's calling range on this runout, not a read on a person — so the prior fixture's 'REG' plate is dropped as invented biography.",
    "'Take the folders out and the part of his range that's left is the part that calls' (option_feedback.bluff) is a range statement, not a pixel. Tape basis: s140 'they're awful blockers because he'll always fold eight seven', s142 'He'll always fold like ace five that floated here', s143 'He always folds the spades that floated', s144 'It's really your blockers are horrendous', s160 'he'll have an ace five with like five of spades'.",
    "'A neutral river that buys you no extra folds' is Tyler's premise about generic rivers at this node (s136 'you don't get an over fold on that note on the river', s137 'on generic river, there's no over fold'). It is stated as a DIRECTION only — the measured fold frequencies behind it live in the population workbook on screen at t=466 and no magnitude from it is displayed or aired (rule 7).",
    "The contemplated bluff is left unsized on purpose. Eric names a shove ('I should have probably jammed the river', s55; 'that's why I was thinking I'm not shoving the river', s134) and the felt shows 71.54 behind, but Tyler rules against bluffing at ANY size ('bluffing spades on a neutral river is almost always bad'), so the option is 'BLUFF', not a specific number.",
    "Eric's own typed solver conclusions in the note ('as played we should have bet larger on the turn and jammed river according to wizard'; '85hh would make a better river jam as played than spades', frame t=900) are the student's post-session notes, not Tyler's ruling, and appear on no displayed surface."
  ],
  "cosmetic_invention": [
    "Ghoul avatars only, as art: hero lono_ghoul, villain ghoul_97. The record names the players 'Hero' and 'SB'."
  ],
  "sourced_not_invented": [
    "SUITS ARE LOAD-BEARING AND SOURCED TWICE. Hero 5♠8♠ and board 9♠ 4♠ 6♥ / 3♣ / K♦ are read off the record's 4-colour tiles (own colour sampling of frame t=476) and independently confirmed by the suit glyphs in Tyler's GTO Wizard view of the same runout (frame t=760: board strip 9♠6♥4♠3♣K♦, combo panel '8♠5♠'). The verdict is literally about spades, so nothing here is cosmetic.",
    "POSITIONS ARE SOURCED. 'Hero (BB)' and 'SB (SB)' are printed in the record header (t=540); the blind posts confirm them. Hero being out of position — and therefore first to act on every postflop street — is the reason the river question is 'bet or check', and it comes from the log, not from staging.",
    "TABLE STRUCTURE IS SOURCED. Exactly two players are listed and no fold is printed; the sibling hand at t=1900 in the same file proves this record lists every seated player and every fold. Two dealt = heads-up, so the SB is the button and acts last postflop — matching the log's order and correcting the prior fixture's four invented folded seats.",
    "EVERY NUMBER IS THE RECORD'S OWN. Stacks 111.3 / 101.99, sizes 2 / 3 / 10.84 / 17.61, pots 4 / 25.68 / 60.9 and the rendered behinds 80.85 / 71.54 are all read or recomputed from the printed lines. The prior fixture's rounded 11 / 18 / 62 / 69-and-69 stacks are replaced by the sourced figures.",
    "THE PROMPT'S DRAW DESCRIPTION COMES FROM THE PIXELS, NOT FROM TYLER'S PHRASING. 5♠8♠ on 9♠4♠6♥ is a four-card spade draw plus the 5-6-8-9 gutshot to the seven. Tyler's spoken 'you have a straight flush draw' (s85/s107/s111) is loose shorthand: the six is a HEART (record tile red at t=476; solver glyph strip and the tab title '9s6h4s3cKd' at t=750/760), so a straight flush needed both the 6♠ and the 7♠ and was never live. Eric's own description one sentence earlier is the accurate one (s108, 'gut shot straight, gut shot, flush draw on the flop'). The prompt therefore reads 'YOUR FLUSH DRAW AND GUTSHOT BOTH MISSED' — Tyler's 'straight flush' wording is repeated nowhere on a displayed surface and is in no aired word."
  ],
  "decision": {
    "pot_settled_bb": 60.9,
    "bets": {}
  }
}