"The Pen:" Live NLHE Chat Thread

LOL 500 max though.

I think it’s by player card and passport and you only get one shot at it.

Oh and the reason I came here originally:

3-4 years ago there was a website where you could sort all the poker tournaments by location, buy in, date, duration, etc. it wasn’t a poker site or a regular poker news outlet. Someone put it all together and put it online… anyone has an idea what site that was?

limited to hotel stays, food and bev and $500 every 72 hours for slots (unsure if it requires play through or not)

must have canadian passport unfortunately, was already thinking of getting a sack of loonies - sadly there doesn't seem to be anything of that sort in seattle area :(

work life is weird - very odd not making my own schedule

even weirder part is each time i make a big mistake, it doesn't cost me money...

https://poker-schedule.com

I think this is what you’re looking for.

but many sites/apps do something similar. pokeratlas and hendon mob are the most reliable imo.

No. 100% no assuming you’re unless visiting anyway. I’ve spent 30+ nights in Vegas in the past couple months at the nicer properties and haven’t paid a dime out of pocket. $140 is nothing even if it’s pure cash.

come to nevada during a 10x multiplier event (Vegas/Reno/Laughlin) get diamond and they will give you many many multiplies of this in comp value for a few hundred dollar EV loss. You can take a low variance approach that won’t cost you much time.

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/ne...

At wsop time Kenny Hallaert does that on twitter. He adds the series to a giant excel spreadsheet as they get released

Right now it only has wsop on because the other rooms haven’t released their series

I tried to get them at a Polish restaurant the first weekend of Lent, their response was come back next year on Mardi Gras. But elsewhere the hype is expanding the season. I took that pic at a bakery last week and the staff wore Packzi T-Shirts.

Even though the Rockies are more-or-less in my backyard, I've actually never managed to get out an see them as an adult. My sister has been living in the Kootenays the past few years and we keep trying to plan a trip out to visit and see the area (thinking of doing a spring RV trip), but life always seems to get in the way. One day.

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speaking of Polish restaurant, y'all need to get some elite pierogies in your life.

Elite pierogies are super underrepped.

Polish Olympic team loved their pierogi:

Squid, the deadly avalanche 'near Lake Tahoe' got a professional company with reportedly experienced guides. Is there just no way to know?

Finally recovering from whatever minor is going around. Bleh.

Anyone know a way to get a simple copy image to clipboard function on an android phone? I made a cool brooch I'd like to post a picture of, but the Google Photos app no longer has "copy" as a menu option, and none of the options for "share" work for me either. I used to just text them to my email account as a workaround, but my email doesn't seem to accept texts anymore.

risk mgmt/mitigation is extremely complex. There are an absolute fcukton of variables. In the past 4 days here 3 have died and 1 is in icu in the wasatch in different avy events.

I have been following the tahoe avy with keen interest for obvious reasons. There is still a ton that we do not know.

In gamboolin we see crazy unlikely events unfold "all the time" The biggest 2/5 pot I played I lost was to a 1 outer.

How much risk is acceptable when it comes to ayy conditions/terrain? If you are guiding 100+ days/year that number NEEDS to be really low or the law of averages is gunna bite you really hard and guides fully understand this.

I do know - these trips are booked months in andvance and are not refundable (this i think needs to change with a clause for severe conditions)

Generally when in exposed situations the group is very spaced out so if things go sideways group risk is minimized. These guys were grouped together so I think they felt they were in a safe zone (I have not studied the topo maps so i cant confirm)

I am not defending nor am I criticizing the decisions that led to the 9 fatalities in tahoe.

Participating in high consequence activities for several decades I have lost a lot of friends over the years. Most of the accidents were extremely unlikely and had multiple variables in play.

I have gotten very unlucky a few times but managed to survive. I have also gotten extremely lucky and cheated catastrophy.

tldr - I dont know, the whole thing sucks. I am sure there will be law suits and this will go on for a while and at some point hopefully we will have an understanding of how this happened

not on android and my iphone version has copy so can't test but the common workaround is to just take a screenshot of the photo with tradeoff being that it'll lose any high res qualities in that transition

save to phone works but then you need to be able to sort by recently added or something because it'll otherwise bury it in the timeline, ie if photo is from 2 years ago, it'll show up there in your local photos

you can also choose to text to someone and then when it opens the text dialogue copy it there

when in doubt, long press on the photo and perhaps a set of options will appear?

i'm not big into mountaineering but given my dad's heavy role in it and the college attracted them in droves both due to proximity to the mountains but also that it has a mountain program very generously funded by the father of a young alum who tragically died in an avalanche in the 90s

so i hear about people dying in avalanches is quite common and if you spend any time on wiki of mountaineers, you'll see a common trend of them perishing in avalanches

i think a big part is it's an accepted risk but the other part is that we're overly precautious and that sets a tone of complacency - on the handful of times i've been on winter camping or hike we've always spent a good 15 minutes digging and testing snow conditions prior to beginning - even though it was in situations where even if an avalanche took place, we were not going to be in a location that was going to be impacted - ie we would be hiking in the valley and there was a 100 yards of trees separating us from any areas of risk

alex honnold talks about this is great detail, that if you look at free solo climbers who died, it was almost never when they were doing the really dangerous stuff, it was rather when they did a light route considered pretty easy, or even when they were roped up and simply took it as such a mundane and easy task that they skipped checking things - one world class climber infamously rapelled right off his rope to his death - a product of him not neither bothering to make sure his rope was long enough nor taking a basic precaution of tying a knot at the end of his rope so he'd hit that and stop - in fact, when i went to google this because i couldn't remember his name, i came across several accomplish climbers who all died this way

High risk stuff like this always just seems to eventually be a law of averages thing. The precautions will help, but we're only human and humans make mistakes once every n times. You make that mistake on the nth time walking down the sidewalk, you'll probably be fine. But in more dangerous situations, you better hope you run well when you make that mistake.

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At various times you have to decide how much risk you want to accept in your life. Backcountry skiing's risk is tough to swallow when you have kids because the black swan event means you're dead.

I must say, I'm fighting mainly conflicting sentiments/motivators in this regard right now

due to my ex wife being a total ****ing dumpster fire - the summary is 4 failed rehabs and about 6 other alcohol related hospitalisations in the last year alone but there's the everyday let downs, broken promises, false hopes etc that go with being the child of an addict - all 3 of my kids are currently emotionally/psychologically fragile to some degree right now. I'm a FT single parent to them all - they're aged 15-20 and the 20yo is away at college so it's not the 'giant volume of mundane everyday tasks' single parent but nonetheless I'm the only one for financial, organisational, psychological support, advice etc plus I still have to run the house with everything that goes into that from a shopping, cleaning, cooking perspective. And two of them are now in therapy because of their mother and I have to talk with each of them every day about her in one way or another

So anyway, I feel an increased awareness of my importance to them and have a lot of focus on being present in all the different ways that takes and there've been a few situations where I've seriously re-considered riskier options and turned down opportunities for things as simple as a weekend away, a helicopter ride and a few other small and not particularly dangerous things, because of the 'they need me more than ever and they'd be totally ****ed if something happened to me'. My gf and I are discussing going hiking in Tibet and whether it's too dangerous is a serious consideration for me

but against that, my mother has developed advanced dementia and after 4 months in hospital is now in a care home where she'll be forever. And it's really ****ing confronting seeing that and makes you realise that none of us are living forever, most of us are 50%+ through our lives and we've got to make the most of the time when we're fit, strong and active. Because it'll be over soon. And despite the entire cluster**** of my last 5 years with my ex wife, I have a new lease on life with a great woman and a healthier attitude to the world and my life

I'm in my 50s and I'm lucky that I'm still extremely capable physically still. But for how much longer? If I wait another 5 years to get out there for more adventures, I'm drastically limiting how many I can have

yikes

idk about hiking the tibet side, but the nepal side trekking is amazing - i did poon hill - which is about a 4-5 day excursion

you'll be fine in the shape you are in, but there's one day headed back down if you do the loop that's all stairs and that can be brutal on the knees - they really just locked up and i couldn't really walk for a day - was freaking out but then they revived

some views from the trip

just... whatever you do... make sure it's not during monsoon season - people tend to gloss over that thinking the himalayas will far enough removed from all that - but they aren't - that's where the rain is actually much worse because the clouds hit the mountains and then get stuck and dump it all down

and not only will you be rained on every day - but the leeches come out of the water and take on the same strategy ticks embrace, climbing up on vegetation and waiting for something to come by and they drop off and latch on

i heard many horror stories about that - luckily we missed it but only by chance - we never gave it a thought

& gman, just realized a loophole, go to photos.google.com and from there you can copy the images direct - that's what i just did

*I actually meant Nepal.