"The Pen:" Live NLHE Chat Thread
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Looks like they are closing the mirage this summer. I generally do not care when a toilet gets closed or a new name but I do have a fondness for that one. As a solo blackjack player back in the early to mid 90s I logged a shitload hours, won piles, and enjoyed what felt like endless complimentary services at what once was the premiere joint in vegas
I only played with him the one time but I managed to hold in some pots. I remember he 3! his straddle to like 75BB with 53ss one hand, and got it through preflop.
3-5 was (is?) his favorite hand. So much so that I always got very careful if he was in the hand on any board that favored it, no matter what the preflop action was.
Looks like they are closing the mirage this summer. I generally do not care when a toilet gets closed or a new name but I do have a fondness for that one. As a solo blackjack player back in the early to mid 90s I logged a shitload hours, won piles, and enjoyed what felt like endless complimentary services at what once was the premiere joint in vegas
presumably closing to reconfigger? iirc MGM sold it a few years back to someone else?
I remember seeing those white tigers in the entrance there in the 90s. poor ****ers being there all day
Spoda become a hard rock so out with the volcano and in with a monster geetar
Ribeyes were on sale. Think I'm getting better at this.
Need to see the inside
Didn't take a picture but pink center. [emoji6]
With the exception of the cap, the fat doesn't look rendered enough to be med-well, but I suppose it's possible. My guess is a solid medium. Cap is over, though. It is tough to be consistent there.
Cap always cooks faster IME
Try putting the ribeye on top of your car and driving around to dry it thoroughly before searing
Beerfest tonight. I got my money's worth.
Saw some insane stuff lately. One day a whale had a 10k+ stack off probably one or maybe two short stack buyins ($300?) and dusted it all. And then he dusted off 8k more. Total meltdown happened within 1.5 hours. He looked super tilted and frustrated, but he never took it out on anyone (other players/dealers)
The next day, he comes back and is in whale mode again, but he is super calm and friendly and charming. It's crazy to me that he had a nightmare super tilted session the previous day, yet he is so pleasant the very next day...
What an awesome human being. It's so rare to play poker with a guy who is so cool and friendly and with an amazing sense of humor. It doesn't hurt that he regularly doesn't mind dusting off many thousands of dollars each session.
Not sure what poker is like elsewhere, but it is a lot of fun for a serious rec semi pro to play with true gentlemen who also have a sense of humor at the table and care about the "spirit of the game."
I would say that there are about 10 or 12 or so regular players (pros, regs, recs, whales, etc.) in my player pool who are super cool humans at the table. I still have to deal with the annoying guys and the angleshooters and the scumbags, but that core group of 10 or 12 or so gentlemen who are also hilarious fun loving characters really makes playing poker fun and entertaining.
I bet Sam Adam Cherry Wheat not represented.
sigh, had to get the variety pack since Alaskan Summer has been cancelled, I suspect climate change.
It might have been? There was a table with some Sam Adams choices, but I wasn't wasting my limited capacity on Sam Adams, and the table also had Deschutes, so I went directly to that side.
Winners of the night: Basically everything from Pipeworks Brewing (Chicago), especially Blood of the Unicorn Hoppy Red, Hutton & Smith Igneous IPA (Chattanooga, TN), Stone Black IPA (No idea why it was represented at a Montgomery brewfest, but I'm glad it was) and for dessert, Uproot Brewing Big Drip Coffee Vanilla Milk Stout (Birmingham, AL).
Saw some insane stuff lately. One day a whale had a 10k+ stack off probably one or maybe two short stack buyins ($300?) and dusted it all. And then he dusted off 8k more. Total meltdown happened within 1.5 hours. He looked super tilted and frustrated, but he never took it out on anyone (other players/dealers)
The next day, he comes back and is in whale mode again, but he is super calm and friendly and charming. It's crazy to me that he had a nightmare super tilted session the previous day, yet he
A pure whale can replenish his losses between the sofa cushions. That would improve the next day mood. Otherwise your poker society sounds same as it ever was. A ring of rocks playing with a couple degens waiting on the whales.
It might have been? There was a table with some Sam Adams choices, but I wasn't wasting my limited capacity on Sam Adams, and the table also had Deschutes, so I went directly to that side.
Winners of the night: Basically everything from Pipeworks Brewing (Chicago), especially Blood of the Unicorn Hoppy Red, Hutton & Smith Igneous IPA (Chattanooga, TN), Stone Black IPA (No idea why it was represented at a Montgomery brewfest, but I'm glad it was) and for dessert, Uproot Brewing Big Drip Coffee Va
How is capacity nowadays?
It makes sense to try out the local and quasi-local brews vs the grocery store options; if groceries sell beer down there. There are so many guys trying it out that I haven't even heard of all the breweries in my own city.
My new go to is a hazy 'new england style' called Church Music. They have got it into the local bars but I doubt whether it distributes out of state.
Everyone who plays $2-$100 spread-limit with me is pure scum.
LOL at us. Just put the last detergent pod in the dishwasher and pulled out the empty bag to throw it away. It was only at this point that I discovered that we had been washing our dishes with laundry detergent for months.
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Who called in with a boring ass hand history? (Davo)
