The betting before the flop just ended.  Then comes that little pause.  Before the flop is flopped.  It’s the ready-set-go part of the hand.  Sometimes, in that suspended space, I get a feeling of This is why I came.  This is why I showed up to play poker today, just so that I could get myself into exactly the spot I am in right now.  Long ago, I started to think of these situations – the ones that made me feel like I was making money just by being in them – as my bread and butter.