"The Pen:" Live NLHE Chat Thread
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The rugby teams were the closest thing we had to fraternities/sororities while I was in college. They were very bad at rugby if we're accounting for their record. But quite good at throwing parties.
it's a huge social & drinking sport. and attracts a lot of big drinking, highly spirited girls
I hope your favorite rugby teams score a bunch of home runs.. or whatever.
The first game was high scoring. Second game with my boys was lower.
You should have gone. Aussie Rules is difficult to understand if you haven’t grown up with it but it’s one of those games that’s better live.
I bet if I'd bought some beer for my seatmates, they would've explained it to me.
he hasn't been heard of since Covid times I think? Garick...do you know how to check his last post?
I do hope he didn't come a cropper
but who we really need for this warfare discussion is mpethy
He hasn't posted since July of 2020, but he's logged in as recently as Oct 0f 2023, so pretty sure he's OK, just got annoyed enough to peace out.
Yup. Decimation was an extreme punishment in the Roman Army. One out of ten (decem, in Latin) soldiers from a unit was killed if the whole unit was considered guilty of a capital offense. It's not clear that it was often used, but there are lots of records of threats of it, and a few confirmed accounts of it actually happening, usually for cowardice.
Jr and I put in two big days on the mountain. Today included a bunch of the fresh stuff. Tomorrow we are playing hooky and driving a little further out. It’s currently nuking up there and is supposed to snow more tomorrow. Should be another powder filled day. One thing is for sure… Two days of back to back hard riding has got me worn the F out! Three days and the big drive is going to make me rethink my life choices.
Jr and I put in two big days on the mountain. Today included a bunch of the fresh stuff. Tomorrow we are playing hooky and driving a little further out. It’s currently nuking up there and is supposed to snow more tomorrow. Should be another powder filled day. One thing is for sure… Two days of back to back hard riding has got me worn the F out! Three days and the big drive is going to make me rethink my life choices.
Saw some pics of BC this morning. Looks like you two will have a blast. Good on you for pulling jr out of school for a pow day. Skiing with my father are some of the best memories I have.
Skewl is 4 suckers. Stompin pow with yer loved 1's the stuff u just do not forget. Wasatch has once again been going off with the snowiest feb ever and march has started BIGLY...very good times.
Ace i assume the kid is healed up and sending it huge
So after it coming up itt, I picked up Ed Miller's "The Course." And read through the "beating 1/2, 1/3" section.
My observations thus far:
- Really enjoying the golf metaphor. Thinking about the game as a "course" with opponents' play as the hazards is simple and effective for me.
- I have thought/said nearly every quote used to describe how bad players think about the game
- The ranges are looser than I was expecting. The exact ranges aren't really the point, though. It's about understanding what a tight preflop strategy is conceptually.
- Breaking down the game into "skills" is really useful
- As someone who likely has never been a winner, the described skills listed to beat low stakes holdem are embarrassingly simple
Eat real food. Not too much. mostly plants.
**** that man. Eat dead animals
Saw some pics of BC this morning. Looks like you two will have a blast. Good on you for pulling jr out of school for a pow day. Skiing with my father are some of the best memories I have.
Pics didn’t do it justice.. gtd. BC is God’s country.
Skewl is 4 suckers. Stompin pow with yer loved 1's the stuff u just do not forget. Wasatch has once again been going off with the snowiest feb ever and march has started BIGLY...very good times.
Ace i assume the kid is healed up and sending it huge
Kiddo is healed up from all his injuries, but tried to tack one on, on Sunday. Luck-o-lee it was just a dinger. This dude rode hard for 3 days straight and it was in terrain that many adults struggle with. We got back to one of the bowls today and it was untouched all over the place. He sank a couple of times (lol little kids in pow) and I had to walk to go help him. Once was knee deep… the other was almost waist deep. He kept bombing it though. Super proud.
Highlights from today:
-gets off lift, goes straight to the good stuff and rips a line from top to bottom in it. Carving and jumping all the way down absolutely getting it. This was deep stuff for his size (a good 6-8”).
- we have open-coms in our helmets and he’s riding behind me. I can hear him telling people, “on your left,” or, “on your right,” constantly. Dude was passing grown a$$ people.
- one point in the passing I hear him say, “C’mon, dude, pick a line and quit taking up the whole mountain.” I just about died laughing!
He crushed it this weekend and leveled up once again. That snow was deep and choppy for how big he is and the size of his board, yet he was in there battling.
Big thanks to King Spew and Queen once again for allowing us to stay in their castle. At this point we practically live there on the weekends. Just waiting for the eviction notice.
I know this probably isn’t the thread to ask this, since everyone here is shredded and deadlifts 600 lbs,
Any bigger dudes here taking GLP-1 drugs for weight loss?
I’m taking semaglutide (the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy) and I’m down 11 pounds in the first month.
It’s completely changed my relationship with food. Before, I’d be busy and go too long without eating, then I’d be starving and eat way too much. Now, I don’t get as hungry, so I never overeat like that. I also get full way earlier into a meal.
The data behind these drugs are about as good as it gets. Everything I’ve read or heard about them makes me think they’ll truly change the world.
Ace, I bet you remember this one for a very long time, great call on the hookie
I know this probably isn’t the thread to ask this, since everyone here is shredded and deadlifts 600 lbs,
Any bigger dudes here taking GLP-1 drugs for weight loss?
I’m taking semaglutide (the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy) and I’m down 11 pounds in the first month.
It’s completely changed my relationship with food. Before, I’d be busy and go too long without eating, then I’d be starving and eat way too much. Now, I don’t get as hungry, so I never overeat like that. I also get full way
I’ve heard Ozempic is great and really effective
There was a guy posting in Health and Fitness for a while who was on it and he lost a ton of weight. The loss slowed down but the results were vg
Maybe post in the general thread in H&F or start your own progress thread in there?
Good luck with the journey
Best weekend I’ve ever had.
Here’s a short, fun clip from today:
So after it coming up itt, I picked up Ed Miller's "The Course." And read through the "beating 1/2, 1/3" section.
My observations thus far:
- Really enjoying the golf metaphor. Thinking about the game as a "course" with opponents' play as the hazards is simple and effective for me.
- I have thought/said nearly every quote used to describe how bad players think about the game
- The ranges are looser than I was expecting. The exact ranges aren't really the point, though. It's about understandin
Play good cards. Not too many. Mostly suited.
Basically everything rick said, though before large units of pikes became common, cavalry riding down the infantry was sometimes successful.
It doesn't take many simulations before you realize that wide-open melee combat is not a recipe for individual survival. The dark ages version of a "ride or die" friend was "shield-wall companion." You covered his flank and he covered yours.
And 10% casualties was considered horrible. It's actually what the word decimate literally means.
Hollywood is going to show the ones that turn into pitched battles. Otherwise movies would mostly be about marching and loading supplies.
On the formation question, there had to be battles where one side or faction was too primitive to have much of a formation.
Hollywood is going to show the ones that turn into pitched battles. Otherwise movies would mostly be about marching and loading supplies.
On the formation question, there had to be battles where one side or faction was too primitive to have much of a formation.
i'm sure it happened in tribal situations of small scale, but again, highly unlikely there was heavy casualties and it would have mostly been a few guys got hurt/killed and the rest retreat
here's a great example from the 100 year's war, they arranged for a 30 vs 30 combat, they fought all day, even taking a break for refreshments halfway through, despite several hours of combat, only 11 died and the second the losing side's formation was broken they immediately surrendered
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_of_...
the best eamples i can think of are when you hear stories of a 2k professional army absolutely crushing a 10k peasant rebellion
later crusades tried their best to dissuade random peasants from joining the cause because a bunch of unorganized peasants holding sticks is going to be systematically wiped out by a trained group that adheres to formations
here's where 20-60k randos showed up in the crusades and were just annihilated by just a small detachment of turks - again though, the real slaughter occured as they fled back to constantinople, not during the actual battle, which would have been over quite quickly once they did the "my buddies are running, if i don't run too i'm surely dead" which is how a few dudes running can start a domino effect
it's like being out on a hike and stumbling across a polar bear, you can't outrun the bear, but you don't need to so long as you can outrun at least one member of your group
I know this probably isn’t the thread to ask this, since everyone here is shredded and deadlifts 600 lbs,
Any bigger dudes here taking GLP-1 drugs for weight loss?
I’m taking semaglutide (the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy) and I’m down 11 pounds in the first month.
It’s completely changed my relationship with food. Before, I’d be busy and go too long without eating, then I’d be starving and eat way too much. Now, I don’t get as hungry, so I nev
i'm on 1mg weekly ozempic for diabeetus. i lost 20 lbs (mid 260s to low 240s) pretty quickly by doing literally nothing.
i would say i also eat more normally now. before i would just eat and there wasn't much stopping me internally until i was super full. now i eat much more normal portions and stop.
since nobody clicks links
When approaching the valley, the Crusaders marched noisily and were immediately subjected to a hail of arrows.[1] Panic set in immediately and within minutes the army was in full rout back to the camp. Most of the Crusaders were slaughtered (upwards of 60,000 by some accounts[2]), including women, children and other non-combatants; only young girls, nuns and boys that could be sold as slaves were taken alive (the princes' crusade would later liberate some of these close to Antioch).
literally zero combat took place, the mass of peasants which surely outnumbered the turks by several multiples took some arrows and immediately fled and then being deep in Anatolia, the Turks with bow and arrow on horseback methodically killed off all but 3k who were able to hide in a castle and got rescued by the Byzantines
again, consider how willing to fight to the death your office colleagues would be if their manager asked them to go kill employees of the rival company, it's basically very little today than it would have been back then
Bought ribeye this time. Better looking?
