"The Pen:" Live NLHE Chat Thread

Pretty light day up here. Snow didn’t pile up like I thought it would, but plenty of stashes and the trees are killer. Spew and I ducked in and out and we were squealing like little girls in there.

Still unsure if I can get home. If not…. We ride again tomorrow!

Abasin didn't open up today due to the storm and avi conditions. If mrs turtle bails I may end up pivoting there as I expect it will be firing on all cylinders.

Good day w/ APD and APD Jr. Got to show them a small little run off the beaten path that gets VERY little action thus POW_central. Jr. beat us thru first run......

5 hours later and we finally made it home. Major roads were closed, so we went the back way. Almost home and some ding dong that didn’t know about snow got them and two truckers twisted up which caused us about an hour delay waiting for them to clean it up. Saw mucho stupidity on the road today, and these were the absolute worst conditions I have ever driven in. No, guy, your RWD mustang (and a civic) isn’t going to handle hard packed, ice drifted roads.

Riding was bueno tho! We made it to the outback later in the day and there was some really good snow back there. We had some frustration tears on a really steep and mogully black…… but I guess I’ll get over it. 😃

World Party, anyone with a case of the olds? Don't know much about him but two songs are on the iPod.

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SPC wanted to get a desert ride in as she is about 2 1/2 months out from her ride across the us&a and we still have a bunch of snow with more on the way, its just not quite time for riding in the mountains. I wanted to check in with my feelings about pokerz so i figured id take a peek at some casino poker whilest she got her fitness on. I played (lasted) 3.5 hrs.

Thoughts:

I was rusty as hell obv and made a bunch of mistakes which i expeted.
There were no skilled players at my game and the size and number of mistakes that all of my opponents made were staggering.
The general public still has no clue how to play NLH.
I still do not like being in the casino environment and find it to be a generally sad scene and both a time and $ sink for most. My view that the proliferation of casino gamblin aint cool on multiple levels is as strong as ever
I have no intentions of playing live poker again any time soon. However, I will if need be.
I do not see live NLH being in any danger of not being profitible for the moderately skilled player.

Back from a week of medieval headkicking. I'm getting really old for this ish. Three days of fighting in a row is clearly my limit these days, and I would have been better off sticking to two. But this event is the premier one for pick-up fighting, where you get sets of 1V1 with a variety of folks from all over, so I pushed it. Blew a lot of rust off myself, but also took a lot of ibuprofen and slathered several muscle groups in Rock Sauce.

Obviously, you've spent far more time in that environment than I. But I get almost a visceral reaction when I walk into a casino now. I don't know if it's because historically, I've usually booked losses or what. Didn't happen when I was younger, despite not being able to afford to lose.

Last weekend, when I walked in, I damn near almost turned around. I wanted to call mrs turtle and tell her to cancel Vegas next month. It dissipated once I got to the poker room and was away from the slots and table game sounds. But yeah, casinos now give me "the ick." Not to mention people are gross and can't keep their germs to themselves.

For whatever reason, I'm drawn to trying to become a winning cash player. So I persevere. Online doesn't feel legit anymore, and many of the home games around here have started raking their games.

Decent band. Never really did a ton for me but a buddy was way into them in the glory years

Really only remember Ship of Fools, but it was a nice little song. Always thought it was not as deep as the singer seemed to think it was, but it was fine.

InstantPot corned beef came out pretty damn well. 8 day brine and 90 minutes in the pressure cooker.

I played pokerz for the first time in 2024. Played so-so but booked a 2.5 BI win (biggest in a long, long time).

That was helped by winning an Omaha bomb pot. I have no idea what I am doing in those but flopped the nuts with the nut redraw on one board (and drilled the nut redraw on the river) and flopped 2 pair plus various backdoors on the other. Basically, I flopped strong enough even I couldn't **** it up, which was nice.

Always loved the chorus but the rest of it didn't do it for me, so never made the iPod.

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Thanks to my injury, poker is like legit the only hobby I can do right now, so I'm actually playing more than I ever have... at least in terms of sessions (now doubled to twice a week) but pretty much the same in terms of hours (where I'm curious if this will have a positive affect on my winrate thanks to shorter sessions likely being beneficial to my shortstacking method).

G25.5hoursshyof6000hoursoflive1/3NL,lol@me,ldoG

GG, are you doing 3hr sessions twice a week?

Yeah, more-or-less ~3.5 hour sessions (twice a week) as I find I can't sit in one place for as long as I used to right now. Running at 1.5 bbs/hr over my historical winrate this year so far (in spite of increased tax on game), but super lol sample size.

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just a shithole border town that is just like every other dump thats spreading pokerz outside of major casino venues. small room, 1/3 - there was a tourney going so they had 3 tables of cash nlh going and a list for 2/5 but i left b4 it popped.

IDK, I like the Peppermill in Wendover.

sup boyz, miss anything good, strat talk? titties? yayo?

I’m not sure how long you’ve been gone but I’m sure the Pow has been off the hook since you were last here, there’s been some headkicks, some bad sad dad music and and the steak pics have gone from bad to ok

No strat talk, no titties, no yayo. Nothing good.

ackshually spring has sprung in the mountains and the corn harvest has begun...and it is off the hook and will stay that way 4 the remainder of the week. That being said we have what seems to be one moar bigly pow blast on tap for next week.

Yeah, it's Abasin east wall season. Then we're also getting a nice dump through Monday. mrs turtle and I are heading up Tuesday for some pow laps.

hello, new to this thread. seems like a civil and friendly place.
for a side hustle here in Dakota I deal for weekend tournaments. this week is a bigger event at a podunk Indian casino. 5 tourneys in 4 days, probably dealing 30+ hours. I'd like to get several cash sessions of play in too.

of course we are getting hit with an early spring snowstorm. that's gonna make the 2+ hour drive suck. winter has been so mild; the only time it storms is when I have to drive somewhere 1+ hour away