"The Pen:" Live NLHE Chat Thread
It's been about 9.5 years and 350K posts of epicness, but "It Lives, It Lives" can live no more. The OG LLSNL Chat Thre
The ultracycling community is pretty small and from what I have seen there is a big sense of stewardship and looking out for each other. There doesnt seem to be a ton of gatekeeping going on that you tend to find in a lot of the smaller sports.
They have been rerouted out a bunch of nasty terrain coming out of Missoula. SPC was a little behind on sleep from the evening in the deluxe bathroom suite. She had a great day of eating and a good night of sleep.
2 buddies have now surprised her on course and rode some miles with her which was a super fun boost. She wound up getting lost for a bit over an hour yesterday due to rerouting confusion. She is really finding her stride and enjoying the event.
After coming out of the toughest part of the course one of her ultracycling buddies who is a long haul trucker showed up to surprise her in Idaho. Note how exhausted she doesnt look
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ETA KT (F) and DB (M) have both withrdawn from the event and are getting shuttled around missing large chunks of the ride and have not been reclasssified so spc is currently in 6th overal,1st for women
also for ks
https://trackleaders.com/gawr24
ETA KT (F) and DB (M) have both withrdawn from the event and are getting shuttled around missing large chunks of the ride and have not been reclasssified so spc is currently in 6th overal,1st for women
also for ks
https://trackleaders.com/gawr24
I seent KT’s profile and she looks the part of ultra elite cyclist. SPC was keeping a good pace behind her, and now she’s technically ahead. NICE!!
Oh and…. Montana is a veryyyyyyy long state. They’ve been in that ish for a good minute now.
Ace - if you click on peoples names a page with their individual stats appears. Check out SPC's avg moving speed compared to the people right in front of her. Hers is significantly higher. Also if you were to go to strava and check out their heart rates you will notice that some of those guys HR's are unsustainably high while SPCs is right in the pocket. She has maintained pace while getting significantly more sleep/time off the bike which is ossum.
Feel like I'd want more than just pepper spray.
Glglglgl gogogogogo SPC!!!
Obviously had to repair / clean up after the double murder / suicide from the week before.
Wife and I did an Atlantic Canada trip last year with packaged pre-booked hotels along the way. All of them were fine / classy enuf for the jorts wearing crowd except for the one in Moncton, NB, which looked a lot like the one you described. My fave part was their swimming pool, where from the bottom floor you had to venture down these dungeon steps into this cement basement area where the pool was entomb
Huh. I overnighted in Moncton last summer at a Days Inn or something, across from the casino. It was fine. July, probably the 5th or 6th.
Kind of a shame that both the NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup Finals will both end in sweeps.
I haven't had the cares since the Oilers took out the Canucks. Some part of me felt I should be cheering for McDavid to cement his legacy as being the greatest of his generation... but most of me doesn't really care.
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Huh. I overnighted in Moncton last summer at a Days Inn or something, across from the casino. It was fine. July, probably the 5th or 6th.
I think we were there in September IIRC. Zipped out to The Bay of Fundy / Hopewell Rocks twice (one at high tide, one at low tide so we could walk the beach), and enjoyed a couple off downtown Moncton meals, but our hotel was comedy.
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was planning on heading west
but then there were massive opportunities going on with nba/nhl playoffs
so i stared at screens 14-18 hours a day
it was financially beneficial, but then went into severe burnout and once playoffs chilled had no motivation to even look at a screen
the dock was in the water, so would go out on the bay all day
this gave me a slim deadline to fix up bike and head west
then i got the rona which was no big deal whatsoever but put a damper in travel plans as I was planning on stopping at various friend's homes on my way out west
once rona cleared, got smacked by the flu which was 10x worse, just did nothing but sleep for a few days
finally getting over things now and clear headed enough to start interacting with the world again, have about 150 unread texts - rip
how is the thread? any interesting rashes or warts spring up in my absence?
skwid, thanks for posting that link, will be following heavily and hoping to join next year
skwid, thanks for posting that link, will be following heavily and hoping to join next year
glad you are ok and over the ebola, we were wondering what hppened to you.
If you are motivated, a pal of SPC's hosts the big sky spectaculaire starting August 19. Its 900 miles 1/2 is gravel. She is planning on attending. Its spoda be a ossum event.
Love that area of MT. Good poker action at Cat's Paw in Bozeman. Going be spending 3 nights in Virginia City two weeks before this event (sadly not on the route, but totally worth checking out if you are in the area) Not sure I'd want to bike it, though.
Highway 2 south of Butte is one of my favorite rides (m/c preferred).
sick, just need to find a tandem partner so we can save $10 each
On the way back from a week of medieval head kicking. Grats to SPC and gogogo! Skippy,, I think we stayed in the same Days Inn.bed frame was even broken. Diva, check out Kilkea Castle for your trip. Definitely Slim approved
Happy Father's Day to those itt that qualify. Hope you enjoy the day!
Thx... and right back out to the other dads here.
Yeah, happy Dad's day to all who qualify. Better you than me.
Good on you boys!
Not Father’s Day here til September.
FB suggested this as the most Dad thing ever
THE STREETS!
Two young European guys sat down at our table at 2AM last night, right next to each other. One bought in for $100, the other $30. Dealer told the guy with $30 that the minimum buy-in was $20, so the guy with $100 just gave $20 in chips to his friend. They then proceeded to speak in non-English (Serbian maybe?) to each other the entire time they were at the table, even when they were both in the hand with other people.
The thing is, they weren’t “colluding” per se, they were both just completely clueless about poker. So none of us complained. And they rebought multiple times!
Ugh. Dealt a charity tournament this weekend. Had a couple who wanted to sit together, so they're in 2 and 3 at my table.
Of course, at these things, we get inexperienced people. The wife clearly didn't know what was going on, so each time I'd explain her options.
The husband seemed to have at least some experience, but wasn't a good player by any means.
She held her hands high (as inexperienced players do), despite multiple times me showing her how to cup the cards and bend the corners up to protect her hand. The problem was, the husband kept leaning over to see her cards, then giving her advice during the hands.
I try to be lenient in these kinds of events, so warned them "One player to a hand. You can't coach during the play of a hand." I'd guess I warned 3-4 times, then got the TD over, hoping his word would have more impact.
They kept on. After a bit, the one seat told them they had to stop doing that, and I backed him up, reminding them they'd been warned multiple times. A bit of commotion ensued, so TD came over and helped defuse.
They got all pissy and started bitching that, "I thought this was a fun event." Then, mucked their chips and quit. At that point, the husband threw out the claim that, "Last week, I won a quarter of a million dollars."
Bullshit. While he knew the mechanisms of poker, he was terrible.
Unfortunately, I wasn't clever enough to snap-offer to go 10-20 HU.
Lesson learned for me; while we want to help beginners out, if they repeatedly ignore instructions and warnings, I need to start handing out penalties/escalate earlier.
