"The Pen:" Live NLHE Chat Thread
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They've had many incarnations so I guess it depends when you saw them. Shame About Ray / Come On Feel / Car Button Cloth is about as good as any three album run by anyone, imo.
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They've had many incarnations so I guess it depends when you saw them. Shame About Ray / Come On Feel / Car Button Cloth is about as good as any three album run by anyone, imo.
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Fully agree. Legitimately among my favorite records of all time.
I saw them play a couple years ago and it was surprisingly great, but then I think the rest of the tour got cancelled the next day for drug-related reasons so I probably just got lucky.
They've had many incarnations so I guess it depends when you saw them. Shame About Ray / Come On Feel / Car Button Cloth is about as good as any three album run by anyone, imo.
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would have been in the mid to late 90s - guess would be 1995 or 1996 because i was old enough to be there for the concert but not yet old enough to be in highschool (grew up on a boarding school campus), it was pretty controversial because we paid them 20k but the school justified it because it you need to dump a couple k just to get a cover band to head out to a remote school anyway and we invited two other schools to come to campus and share the costs
Well that would have been around their heyday, but perhaps nearing when his wheels were beginning to fall off. Maybe the albums didn't translate as well to a sloppy live show?
Think one of my biggest regrets is for some reason I never even considered going to live shows back in the day (just wasn't on my ToDo radar or something?) so I completely missed the experience (both good and bad) of fave bands playing in their prime live.
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Well that would have been around their heyday, but perhaps nearing when his wheels were beginning to fall off. Maybe the albums didn't translate as well to a sloppy live show?
Think one of my biggest regrets is for some reason I never even considered going to live shows back in the day (just wasn't on my ToDo radar or something?) so I completely missed the experience (both good and bad) of fave bands playing in their prime live.
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some of my greatest memories are the small slivers of live concerts that i'm still able to recall
seeing nine inch nails live at the chaoyang pop festival was incredible
it's weird as i see now it's labeled beijing pop festival but it without a doubt remember it was called chaoyang pop festival at the time but sure enough when i found a poster i found i was wrong
big regret was staying out back - none of my friends wanted to go up close to the stage
but used to see live bands all the time and that's something i miss a lot out here
saw every show, everything was great except brett anderson, i left early when he played the first night
Adding "attend music festival in a far East authoritarian country" to my bucket list.
it was great, lots of big bands would come in and play at all these small venues where it was about 50/50 expats and chinese in the crowd
johnny rotten was surprisingly not very edgy anymore, complained a lot about pollution in between songs
this really pisses me off because i discovered this band on pandora - looked them up because the name sounded familar, then found they played the month before at my friend's bar and i decided not to go to that show
handsome furs one of my favorite bands
I've literally played against a guy who thought he was playing blackjack when he sat down. When we explained that he was at a poker table, he stayed to try it out. Burned through about 300BBs in about half an hour, most of which I either got directly or got from the grinder who kept giving drunk crap about not knowing the rules or "playing right."
And I can't tell you how often I've played against a guy who "always wanted to try it out" who was a bit buzzed and dropped 70BBs or so before he decided he was out of his league. I also can't tell you how often I've played against a drunk degen who keeps going out to play table games for a quick thrill before coming back to poker where he lost slower. Not having the main floor convenient to the room is verry bad for both of these demographics.
played a little bit last week, two kids sat down at the table clearly having no idea how it worked and drinking beers, both bought in for the min
kid limps $2, i open to $25 and get 2 callers including the kid - he now has $75 behind
i bet 50 on the flop, other guy folds and the kid who now has 25 behind
turn is a blank and i put him in all in and he snap folds
i used to feel bad for those people, but honestly, just completely owning him like that so quickly is probably the best thing for his long term poker career as he'll either stop playing or learn why what he did was so stupid
Oh you sweet summer child. Its a big time thing. I have been gifted an absolute insane amt from those types over my career.
@RR - if you were undertrained its a very good thing you did not join spc on the montana ride. After today 2/3 of the field have screatched. SPC still going strong but spent the day slogging through "peanut butter" mud. It sounds grueling and horrible but she claims to be having fun.
Oh you sweet summer child. Its a big time thing. I have been gifted an absolute insane amt from those types over my career.
@RR - if you were undertrained its a very good thing you did not join spc on the montana ride. After today 2/3 of the field have screatched. SPC still going strong but spent the day slogging through "peanut butter" mud. It sounds grueling and horrible but she claims to be having fun.
holy schnikes and i thought that'd be a fun easy ride 😀
Anyone know much about Texas poker?
I like southern California, but I don't like paying southern California rent, so I'm considering a change of scenery. Still would like somewhere warm.
What's the best place to play in Texas?
From what I hear, Houston and Austin are your biggest markets. Dallas is still iffy on the legality, so rooms are more fly-by-night and games don't get as big. Austin is a fun city. Dallas is just like one giant stretch of suburbs. Houston is hit or miss, ime.
At least as of a few years ago, the games tend to play really deep and splashy. Higher EV, but also higher variance than traditional LLSNL.
Check out the threads in Venues and Communities for more details.
And I can't tell you how often I've played against a guy who "always wanted to try it out" who was a bit buzzed and dropped 70BBs or so before he decided he was out of his league. I also can't tell you how often I've played against a drunk degen who keeps going out to play table games for a quick thrill before coming back to poker where he lost slower. Not having the main floor convenient to the room is verry bad for both of these demographics.
The similar occasion sticking out in my mind was the time playing at Harveys at Lake Tahoe when a drunken skier threw a midnight party at a 1-3 table, delighted that he was losing less rapidly than playing blackjack and that he could occasionally drag large pots.
Happens all the time in casinos. Doesn't happen in California cardrooms. Not gonna happen at Venetian.
If what I see on YouTube is true, Sabr could play 1/3 in Texas and do just as well as LA 5/5.
I've literally played against a guy who thought he was playing blackjack when he sat down. When we explained that he was at a poker table, he stayed to try it out. Burned through about 300BBs in about half an hour, most of which I either got directly or got from the grinder who kept giving drunk crap about not knowing the rules or "playing right."
Oh man, I forgot that was a 1/1 game. Make it about 700BBs the drunk burned through. I was so pissed at the grinder who ended up chasing him away. Fortunately, I felted said grinder in a ridic deep hand later in the night. That session may actually have been my alltime best in terms of BBs, though it was from before I kept a log, so I'm not sure. I recall it as a 1,500BB win, though. I'm pretty confident it was over 1KBBs, and the biggest win I have in my records is 954BBs.
garick, would you describe your poker player as tight or aggressive?
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Well, I finally found the post I made about this incident, and I had several details wrong. I did end up about 1500 Euros, but it was actually a 1/2 game, not 1/1, and not as much of that win came from the drunk as I'd thought.
I'm in a story telling mood tonight (Middle East time), so I share with you the tale of my first session at Spielbank Hamburg-Reeperbahn. For those not familiar with the Reeperbahn, it is the traditional degeneracy street in Hamburg, best known for having the 2nd biggest legal red light district (to Amsterdam) in Europe, but also home of strip clubs, bars, nightclubs, at least one live sex show, and the aforementioned casino.
This casino only spreads (at least at the time) poker on the weekends, and it is 1/2NL only. So I show up at about 11pm on a Friday night and am playing on the must-move table with one other semi-decent player and several droolers, when Herr Drunkie von Spewenstein arrives. A big, well dressed guy of about 45 who has obviously been enjoying the entertainment district sits down and tries to buy in for 1K. Sadly, this is over the table max.
His first hand, I am UTG with QQ and raise to 15. One caller to Herr Spewenstein, who waves his hand over his cards and sits back in his seat. The dealer gives her best WTF look and says (auf Deutsch) "your action, sir." He looks blank, so she repeats it in English. He responds "I don't want any more cards." She says "it is 15 Euros to you, sir," to which he replies "OK, but I still don't want any more cards," and throws in the call.
After the other guy folded to my C-bet, I explained to him that we weren't playing blackjack (my conscience got the better of me) and gave him a precis of the rules and his options. He still called me down for about 150. Guy decided to stay and spewed off about 400, after which he went to find the actual Blackjack table.
Guy I thought was semi-good says "thank god he's gone. He was ruining the game." This gave me the hint that I was giving him too much credit, which helped convince me to shove the flopped nuts over his flop raise later at the main table about 800 deep and get paid. I'd have to check my records, but that may have been my best ever night at 1/2. God bless poker in the Kiez, and not just for getting the Beatles started.
I smell an insurance scam of their own.
@RR - sloggin through this looks double plus unfun
