{
  "schema_version": "1.3",
  "table_size": 4,
  "id": "kj-check-ace-high-3bet-flop",
  "format": "multi_option",
  "free": true,
  "rebuild": "v2",
  "provenance_class": "dealt_hand",
  "updated_at": "2026-08-08T00:00:00Z",
  "source": {
    "session_id": "2025-11-03",
    "verdict_audio": "quiz/audio/kj-check-ace-high-3bet-flop.m4a",
    "lesson_slug": null,
    "ser_sentences": [288, 289, 316],
    "hand_record": {
      "lane": "LIVE-TABLE",
      "screen": "Recording-of-a-recording: VLC replaying Eric's own 3-table screen capture (VLC title bar verbatim: 'output_2025-11-01 14-23-11.mp4 - VLC media player') during the 2025-11-03 session. The hand plays on the top-left table, window ~390px wide in the session frame — the legibility floor for felt text; every read below is from temporal averages over static spans plus the client's large-type action bar. Frames are READ-ONLY provenance, never aired (poker-room branding on the felt and title bars).",
      "stake": "Table title bar 'Ring Game (NLHE) | 0.50/1/2 (0.50) CHIPS | HL7580' (222-frame temporal average across t=1212-1319; room name withheld from displayed surfaces per no-operator-branding policy, recorded in the audit trail). Play-chips currency at 0.50/1 blinds: 1 chip = 1 BB, so every figure in this fixture is native bb. NO dollar value exists for this game and none appears anywhere (G2). The '/2' straddle and '(0.50)' ante in the title are independently proven by the action arithmetic below.",
      "hand_id": "NONE — live-table capture, no hand number on screen (LIVE-TABLE lane: the frame sequence is the log). Identity rests on the triangulations listed in identity_corroborations.",
      "frames": [
        "cache/2025-11-03.mp4 t=1204 — hand dealt: hero K(spade glyph, dark card) J(diamond glyph, blue card) = Ks Jd; discs SB 0.50 (top seat), BB 1 (right seat), hero 2 with the client's straddle badge (teal) under the hero plate; hero pre-select buttons 'Check/Fold | Check' (a preflop check option = hero posted the biggest blind = the straddle); villain (right seat, card backs) on the action timer",
        "cache/2025-11-03.mp4 t=1208 — villain has raised (gold badge): hero action bar 'Fold | Call 8 | Raise to 18', size presets '2.2x | 2.8x | 3x', slider 18. Call 8 over hero's posted 2 pins the raise at 10",
        "cache/2025-11-03.mp4 t=1209.5-1209.8 (60fps walk) — hero clicks the 3x preset: slider and button flip to 'Raise to 30' (two consecutive frames), then the bar vanishes and the gold raise badge appears under hero — the 30 was committed unmodified",
        "cache/2025-11-03.mp4 t=1212-1268 (112-frame average) — villain on the timer facing the 3-bet: hero plate 111.50 -> 83.50 across the commit (delta 28 = raise-to-30 minus the 2 straddle already posted); villain plate 318.34; pot pill 42.50 (= 0.50 dead SB + 2.00 antes + 10 + 30, legible-consistent)",
        "cache/2025-11-03.mp4 t=1271-1276 — villain calls, flop deals (board region variance jump at t=1271); t=1308.5-1312 the street settles (pot pill and plates update; discs sweep)",
        "cache/2025-11-03.mp4 t=1314 — THE DECISION STATE: board 8(spade) A(spade) 9(club, green) left-to-right on the 4-colour deck; villain plate 298.34 with the grey check badge; hero Ks Jd on the 14s timer, action bar 'Fold | Check | Bet 2' with the 25% preset first in the size row",
        "cache/2025-11-03.mp4 t=1677.4 — verdict anchor: first word of s288 ('What's the best way for me to win this pot?') lands on this exact decision state in the un-zoomed 3-table view",
        "cache/2025-11-03.mp4 t=1832 — s316 ('King Jack's a check') lands on the Snipping-Tool copy of the same decision state with Tyler's red ink: an arrow to hero's K J and '25% bet' struck through with an X"
      ],
      "live_sequence": "Antes 0.50 x 4 post; SB 0.50 (top seat), BB 1 (right seat), hero posts the 2 straddle (UTG, 4-handed); BTN (bottom-left, dealer disc) folds, SB folds; BB raises to 10; hero 3-bets to 30 via the 3x preset; BB calls; flop 8s As 9c; BB checks; hero's decision = this quiz. The recording is paused on that decision through both verdict anchors and never plays the rest of the hand on screen.",
      "stacks": "Villain chain (value-line averages, three states): 327.34 after posting BB 1 + 0.50 ante -> 318.34 after raising to 10 (delta 9) -> 298.34 after calling 30 (delta 20). Hero chain: 111.50 after 0.50 ante + 2 straddle -> 83.50 after the 3-bet (delta 28), unchanged into the decision. Both chains lock the sizes independently of the (blurrier) discs: villain start 328.84, hero start 114.00, hero covers nothing — effective stack = hero's.",
      "pot": "Client pot at the decision = 62.50 by conservation (0.50 dead SB + 2.00 antes + 30 + 30), anchored by the legible tank-state pill 42.50 and both stack chains. The decision-state pill itself is at the capture's legibility floor and was NOT cleanly read — recorded as illegible, value derived, per the reconciliation protocol. RENDERED pot in this fixture is 60.5 (= 0.50 + 30 + 30): the site felt has no ante support, so the 2.00 in antes is declared in the context line and this record but excluded from the displayed chip math (see cosmetic_invention).",
      "villain": "Anonymous room username on the plate (never legible, never needed). Tyler states NO read on this specific opponent anywhere in the segment — his whole argument is range-based ('if he calls pre-flop to a three-bet there just isn't that many combos that he wants to fold', s256). The prior fixture's 'STATION' name was an invented read and is removed (Ruling: dealt-hand villains carry only tape-cited reads).",
      "result_on_tape_only": "Eric bet at the time: 'what I may have been thinking at the time when I decided to bet' (s294). The session never shows the rest of the hand; no result exists on tape or screen and none is displayed.",
      "spoken_facts": [
        "Hero cards twice: 'We three-bet King Jack with the king of spades here' (s229) + 'king of spades jack of diamonds' (s292) — matches the Ks Jd pixels",
        "Board twice: 'the board comes down ace nine eight' (s229) + 'we take the ace eight nine' (s263, Flopzilla entry) — matches the 8s As 9c pixels; two spades on board corroborated by the spade-barrel talk (s293) and 'the six of spades' bluff-region aside (s279)",
        "Configuration: 'it's blind versus blind' (s260, again s297) — BB vs straddle, both blind hands, matching the derived seat map",
        "The decision's two options: 'It's either to bet 25% of pot or / It's to check' (s283-284) — matching the client's 25% preset and Tyler's red '25% bet' ink at t=1832",
        "Played action: 'when I decided to bet' (s294, Eric)"
      ],
      "identity_corroborations": [
        "Spoken-fact <-> pixel triangulation on cards (Ks Jd, s229+s292), board (A-9-8, s229+s263), and node (bet-25%-or-check, s283-284 vs the client's live Fold/Check/Bet bar with 25% preset)",
        "Action-shape match: Tyler narrates a blind-vs-blind 3-bet pot where the caller checks to the 3-bettor on an ace-high flop — exactly the frame-derived sequence (straddle-vs-BB, raise 10, 3-bet 30, call, check)",
        "The verdict is physically annotated onto this hand's pixels: s316 lands on the Snipping-Tool copy of the decision frame carrying Tyler's red arrow + struck-through '25% bet' (t=1832)"
      ],
      "teaching_beat_sids": [256, 260, 266, 281, 283, 284, 285, 286, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 296, 316, 317],
      "notes": "T1 screening record deviations corrected by this re-derivation: (1) T1/old fixture had villain as SB in a 6-max no-straddle game — the real structure is a 4-handed 0.50/1/2 (0.50-ante) straddle table, villain = BB, hero = straddler; (2) old fixture's 'SB opens 3 / hero 3-bets to 11 / pot 22 / stacks 89' were fabricated — real line is raise-to-10 / 3-bet-to-30 / client pot 62.50 / hero 83.50 behind, villain 298.34; (3) old board 'Ah 9d 8c' had invented suits and order — real board 8s As 9c (the two spades are load-bearing for hero's Ks backdoors and Tyler's spade-region reasoning); (4) old villain name 'STATION' was an uncited read — removed. Flopzilla (s262-281) and solver (s303-321) figures in the surrounding tape (64% continue, 64% check, 20%-of-deck, 26% donk) are analysis run ON this dealt hand and are deliberately neither displayed nor aired."
    }
  },
  "context": "ONLINE CHIPS RING GAME · 0.50/1, HERO STRADDLES 2, 0.50 ANTE · 4 DEALT · 3-BET POT vs THE BB",
  "hero": {
    "pos": "UTG",
    "cards": [
      "Ks",
      "Jd"
    ],
    "stack_bb": 83.5,
    "avatar": "lono_ghoul",
    "button": false
  },
  "seats": [
    {
      "pos": "BTN",
      "avatar": "ghoul_4507",
      "folded": true,
      "button": true
    },
    {
      "pos": "SB",
      "avatar": "ghoul_2916",
      "folded": true
    },
    {
      "pos": "BB",
      "avatar": "ghoul_4883",
      "stack_bb": 298.34,
      "villain": true
    }
  ],
  "streets": [
    {
      "name": "preflop",
      "actions": [
        {
          "pos": "hero",
          "act": "straddles",
          "to_bb": 2
        },
        {
          "pos": "BTN",
          "act": "fold"
        },
        {
          "pos": "SB",
          "act": "fold"
        },
        {
          "pos": "BB",
          "act": "raise",
          "to_bb": 10
        },
        {
          "pos": "hero",
          "act": "3bet",
          "to_bb": 30
        },
        {
          "pos": "BB",
          "act": "call"
        }
      ],
      "pot_bb": 60.5
    },
    {
      "name": "flop",
      "board": [
        "8s",
        "As",
        "9c"
      ],
      "actions": [
        {
          "pos": "BB",
          "act": "check"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "prompt": "K♠J♦ · 3-BET POT · ACE-HIGH FLOP · THE BB CHECKS — BET 25% OR CHECK?",
  "pot_bb": 60.5,
  "options": [
    {
      "id": "bet",
      "label": "BET 25%"
    },
    {
      "id": "check",
      "label": "CHECK"
    }
  ],
  "correct": "check",
  "option_feedback": {
    "bet": "He called your 3-bet blind-vs-blind, and A-9-8 smashes that calling range. Tyler walks the whole board: the only hands with any reason to fold are pocket pairs sevens-and-under, sizing up folds nothing better, and every time you get raised, K♠J♦ — two live overcards with backdoor spades — is far too much equity to bet-fold.",
    "check": "Correct — \"What's the best way for me to win this pot? It's actually probably to check.\" A blind-vs-blind caller has almost no folding region on ace-nine-eight, betting bigger doesn't create one, and a check never puts K♠J♦'s equity at risk of getting raised off the hand. King Jack's a check."
  },
  "verdict_text": "What's the best way for me to win this pot? It's actually probably to check. King Jack's a check.",
  "principle": "Rank flops by how hard they hit the out-of-position caller: ace-high boards like A-9-8 give a blind-vs-blind 3-bet caller almost nothing to fold, so K-high overcards win the pot more often by checking than by betting into a range that calls every size and can raise you off your equity.",
  "concept": "dont-cbet-ace-high-vs-sticky",
  "concepts_secondary": [],
  "topic": "3bet-pots",
  "difficulty": 4,
  "pct_provenance": {
    "25": {
      "role": "bet_size_option",
      "referent": "the actual size on the table at this node — the client's 25%-of-pot preset (first button in the bet row, frame t=1314), the size Tyler names as the only bet worth considering ('It's either to bet 25% of pot or / It's to check', s283-284), and the size he strikes through in red ink on the decision frame ('25% bet' with an X, t=1832)",
      "source": "pixels (t=1314 action bar, t=1832 ink) + SER s283-284"
    }
  },
  "size_claims": {
    "_note": "No size adjective appears in any displayed string or in the aired clip. Entries document the real amounts read off the client for the audit trail.",
    "straddle 2": {
      "street": "preflop",
      "actor": "hero (UTG straddle, 4-handed)",
      "to_bb": 2,
      "source": "hero's 2 disc + teal straddle badge + preflop check option (t=1204); the table title lists the straddle ('0.50/1/2')"
    },
    "raise to 10": {
      "street": "preflop",
      "actor": "BB",
      "to_bb": 10,
      "source": "action bar 'Call 8' over hero's posted 2 (t=1208) + villain stack delta 327.34 -> 318.34"
    },
    "3bet to 30": {
      "street": "preflop",
      "actor": "hero",
      "to_bb": 30,
      "source": "3x preset of the 10 ('Raise to 30' preview committed, t=1209.5-1209.8) + hero stack delta 111.50 -> 83.50 (28 = 30 minus the 2 already posted) + villain call delta 318.34 -> 298.34 (20 = 30 - 10)"
    },
    "bet option 25%": {
      "street": "flop",
      "actor": "hero (the graded option)",
      "pct_of_pot": 25,
      "source": "client 25% preset (t=1314); spoken s283; red ink t=1832. Never taken on screen — the recording pauses at the decision"
    }
  },
  "claims": [
    {
      "text": "Preflop line locked by two independent stack chains: villain 327.34 -> 318.34 -> 298.34 (posts BB 1, raises to 10, calls 30) and hero 111.50 -> 83.50 (posts 2 straddle + 0.50 ante, 3-bets to 30). Deltas 9, 20 and 28 admit no other sizes.",
      "basis": "pixels — value-line temporal averages at t=1201-1207, 1212-1268, 1311.5-1319; action bar 'Call 8' / 'Raise to 30'",
      "recomputed": true
    },
    {
      "text": "Rendered pot 60.5 = 0.50 dead SB + 30 + 30. The client's true pot is 62.50 including the four 0.50 antes; the tank-state pot pill 42.50 (= 0.50 + 2.00 + 10 + 30) confirms the ante money on screen. The 2.00 ante differential is declared, not rendered (site felt has no ante lane), and no displayed prose quotes a pot number, so nothing contradicts.",
      "basis": "pixels (pot pill t=1212-1268; title-bar '(0.50)' ante, 222-frame average) + conservation arithmetic",
      "recomputed": true
    },
    {
      "text": "Decision node: flop 8s As 9c, BB checks (grey badge, t=1314; BB is first to act of the two live players), hero on the timer with Fold/Check/Bet — bet-25%-or-check is the node Tyler rules on (s283-284), and the aired verdict s288/s289/s316 is spoken over this exact frozen frame (t=1677.4, t=1832).",
      "basis": "pixels + SER",
      "recomputed": true
    },
    {
      "text": "Mechanism sentences trace: 'there just isn't that many combos that he wants to fold' (s256); folding region 'sevens through deuces' (s266) / 'sixes through deuces' (s281); 'if he has better than sevens here, he's just calling no matter what sizing' (s285-286); 'every time I get raised off this combo it's terrible' (s290); 'king of spades jack of diamonds is a non-negligible amount of equity to bet fold' (s292); 'none of those cards are particularly great barrels because of how much they equalize the ranges' (s296); 'we're not gonna barrel... because the guy's not gonna fold' (s317).",
      "basis": "SER 2025-11-03, tyler + spk_confident",
      "recomputed": false
    }
  ],
  "unverifiable_claims": [
    "Eric's actual action: he bet at the time ('what I may have been thinking at the time when I decided to bet', s294) — spoken only; the recording pauses at the decision and the session never plays the hand's continuation, so no result exists and none is shown.",
    "Tyler's Flopzilla and solver work on this hand (the 64% continue filter s271, the solver's 64% check s304, '20% of the deck gave me extra EV' s291, the donk-frequency figures s318-320) is analysis run ON the dealt hand; every one of those magnitudes is deliberately excluded from displayed text and from the aired clip."
  ],
  "cosmetic_invention": [
    "Ghoul avatars (lono_ghoul hero; ghoul_4507 BTN; ghoul_2916 SB; ghoul_4883 BB) — art only; the client shows anonymized room usernames.",
    "Position LABELS UTG/BTN/SB/BB are derived (dealer disc at the bottom-left seat; 0.50 and 1 posts; hero's straddle + last-to-act-preflop check option), not printed on the client's felt.",
    "The client's four 0.50 antes (2.00 total) are declared in the context line and recorded in the hand_record but not included in the rendered chip math — the site felt has no ante support. Rendered pot 60.5 vs client pot 62.50; no displayed prose quotes a pot figure.",
    "The straddle renders as the action line 'Hero straddles 2'; the site's replay does not draw the 2 as chips-in-front before the 3-bet (renderer limitation, disclosed here).",
    "NO cosmetic cards and no cosmetic structure: Ks Jd and the board 8s As 9c (screen order) are load-bearing — the two board spades carry hero's K♠ backdoors and Tyler's spade reasoning — and are read off the 4-colour deck and spoken twice each; sizes, stacks and action order are the pixels' own."
  ],
  "aired_transcript": "What's the best way for me to win this pot? It's actually probably to check. King Jack's a check.",
  "aired_transcript_note": "Re-ASR of the delivered m4a (faster-whisper small.en, 2026-08-08): 'What's the best way for me to win this pod? It's actually probably to check King Jack's a check' — 'pod' is ASR noise for 'pot' (SER s288 word = 'pot'). Beats s288+s289 and s316, matching tools/cut_quiz_audio.py QUIZ_AUDIO; no re-cut needed: the aired words contain no sizes, no gated numbers, and nothing the rebuilt hand contradicts.",
  "decision": {
    "pot_settled_bb": 60.5,
    "bets": {}
  }
}