"The Pen:" Live NLHE Chat Thread

Who’s going to be in Vegas during WSOP???

I made a thread.

Not me this year. I’m going on a tour to Fiji in June with my son’s rugby team

Should save me $10k if last year is anything to go by

The situation with Luttrell is complicated. Ed Darrack's book "Victory Point" discusses the operation as it tied into the larger USMC operation his book discusses. Very briefly, the 'Lone Survivor' operation was a giant screwup. Not so much because 3 of the 4 SEALs died, though that was awful, but because their QRF got blown out of the sky too, killing an additional 16 JSOC personnel. That big of a disaster, (cf Jessica Lynch,) unfortunately encourages those involved and in the chain of command, to create and run with a narrative that justifies the sacrifice, throwing medals at the participants, etc...

Which is a long way from the the usual discussion at 2+2, so I'll stop there. Happy to explain any of the acronyms.

I'm very sorry to read about things like nerve damage, separations leading to divorce, and other bad news in these last couple of pages. I hope things improve for you all and your loved ones.

WPT in December for me this year.

My youngest graduates high school and Mrs Breeze and I have our 25th anniversary in June.

A guilty pleasure of mine is unwilling hero dude against it all type o' flicks. I always wonder when it says based on a true story exactly how full of sheeyit they are. So I would really enjoy hearing all about what you know with the acronyms explained.

i never got a chance to join but the people in my beijing hockey league who'd travel for international tournaments always said it was incredible fun

gman, have you seen fury and on a scale of 1-10 how much does the ending piss you off?

Is The Bellagio worth $300/night more than Caesars? For context, traveling with wife and dogs to Vegas for my 40th. Caesars has minimal dog fee, and Bellagio is $300/night. I've never stayed at the Bellagio, but I would prefer to over what I've read about Caesars.

It's for my 40th, so I don't want to be cheap. skwid gave me advice years ago when I bought my road bike, "A year from now, will you give a shyt about the $$$?" But bikes >>>> hotels.

Happy soon 2 b 40th Donatello. For me the center strip former "top end" joints are all kind of the same. Bellagio is now 25+years old. You are going to sleep and shower there so if the beds are somewhat comfy, rooms are clean, and have a decent shower they are all in the same proximity. I cant justify dropping and extra 300/night. Id rather add it on a boondoggle meal or do something absolutely silly like driving a fast car on the race track. Thats just me.

I tell people to stay at Park MGM. It’s connected to Aria by a walkway and from there you can tram to Bellagio and then you are center strip.

Park is 75% cheaper per night than Aria.

IYKYK.. and only two others itt will know.

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That’s a ton of $$ Turtle. Caesars rooms are still pretty good and so are the facilities. It’s a ****ing zoo in the evenings is the only challenge. I might pay $60 per night more for B but no more

Why are you bringing your dogs? Surely you have someone you can leave them with? Or get a house sitter?

I find the tougher cuts have more meat flavor, you just have to prepare them with that in mind. Below is top round (ass) marinated with soy-OJ and no oil.

Order me a torta, I'm on my way!!

All our family is back east. Historically, we've flown my mother out to dogsit. She is medically unable to handle that anymore. We don't board them, and I don't like putting friends out. Maybe it's silly, but I wouldn't trust a house-sitting service either.

I wouldn’t board my dog again but I think house sitting is great. If you can find a friend who’ll do it for free all the better.

We went to Europe for 3 weeks and had one of the wife’s work colleagues. She had just separated and loved having a big house to live in for 3 weeks. And out r pets got to stay at home and get walked etc

It would be different with strangers I guess.

Agree on the house sitting. It's been great when we've done it in the past. We're going to Portugal for our anniversary later this year, and my brother-in-law is coming out to dogsit. No luck for the Vegas trip, though.

I was lucky enough to go on a lot of tours with my rugby.

3 week tours to Canada and Texas with my college team and then

long weekends in Amsterdam (3x) Lisbon, Hong Kong, Dubai when I was playing 7 a side tournaments and also quite a few within the UK for my club.

all mainly paid for too which was great.

ironically, the only tour I ever turned down was Fiji and Samoa. It was a 10day tour with my club but my thinking was that playing against the world's biggest humans on rock solid fields was not ideal...particularly on hangovers. Plus....the world's biggest women!

It is, and as someone with asthma, it’s appreciated.

As soon as you walk into Aria from that way you’re right in the poker room. Perfect.

Have not seen. I understand that the tank is basically the star of the movie. Something about the tank being broken down, but they decide to stay in it and fight "because it's home," IIRC? Sounds pretty dumb.

I literally haven't seen a movie all the way through since Hidden Figures as a work function. Before that it was ?Rogue One?

I just don't sit still long enough for movies. I lose interest very quickly.

that's pretty much it, the preceding stuff i really loved, thought they did a great job portraying the starving populace and at the end nazis were tossing teengagers with panzerfausts at the tanks as well as highlighting the us strategy of "we don't need better tanks because we'll have 10x as many" and that all the european girls would bang you for a candy bar

up until the ending i really enjoyed it and found it really accurate as far as war films go

then there's a "there's an entire column heading down this road towards our broken down tank, it'll help out the war cause if we slow them down, let's just not care about living and instead slowing down this army for marginal and intangible gain, forget the fact that if we just setup some improvised mines and took a few potshots from the distant treeline before continuing to retreat on foot we could have accomplished pretty much the same delay

Military movies drive me nuts with their love of "tactics that all fit into the framed shot impressively, never mind that they are suicidal."

I loved the book Starship Troopers, so I was very excited when the movie came out and saw it opening day. What a disappointment. Some Heinlein fans hated the propaganda in the movie version, but I can see how folks could read the book and get that feel for the society Heinlein was depicting. I think it was over the top, but meh. Others hated the lack of the powered armor suits from the book, but I can see how expensive that would get to film, and how it would have been hard to depict the actors' emotions etc. Still more hated the dumb love-triangle that the movie threw in for no reason except perhaps an excuse to show some breasts, but hey, breasts. No, the part that pissed me off was the horrible and dumb tactics. These guys are supposed to be the best trained high tech infantry of all time, and here we see them wildly charging towards a giant unarmed monster firing their assault rifles from the hip. Because everyone knows that missile weapons only work from within hand-to-hand range of a beast that couldn't harm you at all if you stayed back a few hundred feet and shot at it. :eyeroll:

Was flipping the channels last night and came upon a rugby match from Allegiant stadium last night. Two Aussie teams (chickens vs bunnies?) came over for a game.

Looked like a ton of fun, even though I didn't know what was going on. Seemed like the offensive team would go down the field quite a way, then kick it away when they were close-ish.

I believe one of those teams was Feely's beloved Roosters.

Sports movies which ignore basic rules infuriate me. A big one I have seen in multiple football movies is a team recovers a fumble and they have to take a time out to stop the clock. Change of possession mother ****ers! Learn it!