"The Pen:" Live NLHE Chat Thread
It's been about 9.5 years and 350K posts of epicness, but "It Lives, It Lives" can live no more. The OG LLSNL Chat Thre
I'm one of those who had to break all contact with family... so days like today are about spoiling Mrs. Breeze and nothing else.
sorry to hear that Venice.
my mum is still with us but has relatively advanced dementia (somewhere between stage 5 & 6 on a 7 stage scale) & I suspect she doesn't have many more Mother's days left. TBH, it's both a good and bad way to go....for the people around the sufferer. (i think it's a grim way to go for the sufferer & it's certainly not how I would choose to go). Bad because you see the deterioration happening, it's not nice to see & feel your loved one slipping away etc & it's a weight on you with the responsibility you feel Good because you are really losing them one day at a time and I think by the time she goes, it won't be sad any more because a) it'll be a relief and be) you've seen that they weren't really living much anyway
sadly I had to see my ex yesterday, who...despite having been an almost totally absent mother for the past few years and a quite destructive one in many ways to my kids emotionally...actually managed to hold it together long enough to see 2 of the kids for an hour. I saw her at my son's rugby game & managed a smile and a 'happy mother's day' before getting away from her
What a bunch of old codgers we are in here…
Count me in with the group that misses Mom
Mom passed in 2012 and Dad shortly after in 2013 (both "relatively" young at 70 and 68). Sucks not having them around for the past dozen+ years to experience all the things that have gone on in our lives / would have in theirs. And although they did pass far too young / relatively healthy, I am sorta glad they didn't get to the other point I see lottsa others at living very difficult/painful lives in advanced old age.
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Sr Walking broke his hip and was sentenced to 3 months in whatever we now call a nursing home, SIAP.
But he lived an extremely healthy life style. He is now back home with home Care workers, and we might get one to 15 more years.
Sr Walking broke his hip and was sentenced to 3 months in whatever we now call a nursing home, SIAP.
But he lived an extremely healthy life style. He is now back home with home Care workers, and we might get one to 15 more years.
that's great that he escaped the home. They are called Respite here
hopefully he can have quality of life in his last years
A week without a post in the chat thread. Feels like end times.
Our graduation is this week. Been nuts for me with the capstone exercise and then the conference we host in the week between. Hopefully I can have a life again now.
I recently re-visited the zombie chat thread to see if I could figure out the who / what / why's of the 20 session winstreak bet. We literally had days back then where there were a dozen *pages* worth of chatter.
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The only things left to say
Help, I can get up.
Get off my lawn.
Back in my day, we walked 20 miles in ice and snow. And both sides were uphill.
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Get mediocre again soon
We know at your advanced age your back is never going to be all better
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Get mediocre again soon
We know at your advanced age your back is never going to be all better
Last night I played like my ~10th consecutive casual drop-in hockey game without injuring myself / pulling a muscle / tweaking something / etc., so feel pretty good about that. Also at my lightest weight in many decades.
But, lol, at least a couple of times last night I twirled around and went down in front of our own net for no explicable reason and then semi-struggled to get up, all a case of impending olds I suppose. Got ribbed about it in the dressing room afterwards pretty good too, lol.
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haven't played pokerz in over a month... voluntarily, would just rather tinker at home on various tech projects now that i have a steady income stream
Good on you Rick, but that's also sad for us gamblers to know. I'm at the first apex (since Black Friday) of my poker career kind of out of nowhere.
haven't done slot hustling in months, which also meant no blackjack either
doing slots i felt like a total scumbag
doing blackjack got a lot more stressful after i was 86'd from emerald queen casino where they voided all my sportsbets and refunded them (depsite that many had already won) due to "we don't like advantage players" after that i wasn't just tapping a new income stream, i was endangering my primary source of income
i'll probably do more bj now, since i don't need to worry about losing access to the sportsbooks anymore, if i get 86'd now, it's same result as not playing at all
so bj was somewhat high stress, i made about 7k from ecq over 3-4 sessions before they trespassed me, but i would have made far more than 7k off them at the sportsbook and they had by far the most slots which have +ev states of any of the local casinos, so that was super frustrating to lose
i think the big lesson there is not to ever play single or double deck
ecq - only played double deck - 4 sessions then trespassed
tulalip - played 8 deck a bunch, 2nd time playing double deck got backed off from them and their sister casino
angel of the winds - they only have 8 deck, played 4-5 sessions before getting backed off
everywhere else i've put in dozens of sessions and never got any heat and all at 8 deck
want to hit maverick casinos here but they also run all the poker rooms and i like poker
so since january, basically jsut been doing pokerz and very sparingly - it's interesting as my job is very good but still doesn't pay as much as i earned during the really good years (but more than an average or bad year) but i feel 10x richer than i did during the good years because i don't feel the need to keep tens of thousands of dollars in cash in reserve and i'm not longer hesitant to make big purchases because i'm not worried that i'll only lose money the next 8 months
was a professional gambler for a full decade and quite a few times i had to sell crypto or stocks to reload bankroll because the money coming in was so inconsistent and unpredictable
the positives is that now that i don't need huge cash reserves anymore, i'm sitting on a pretty big nest egg that no longer needs to be a nest egg anymore and i can put it to work or go treat myself
haven't played pokerz in over a month... voluntarily, would just rather tinker at home on various tech projects now that i have a steady income stream
Anything you are willing to talk about? Sounds interesting.
Good on you Rick, but that's also sad for us gamblers to know. I'm at the first apex (since Black Friday) of my poker career kind of out of nowhere.
Pray, tell. Glad to hear you’re crushing.
Last night I played like my ~10th consecutive casual drop-in hockey game without injuring myself / pulling a muscle / tweaking something / etc., so feel pretty good about that. Also at my lightest weight in many decades.But, lol, at least a couple of times last night I twirled around and went down in front of our own net for no explicable reason and then semi-struggled to get
Thats impressive, I am kinda jealous that you can play competitive sports still.
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I've never really played competitive hockey, at best recreationally "competitive". But nowadays it's just super casual drop in where we barely keep score (just to know when to switch goalies). For me it's all about simply being able to participate.
Guy who runs our drop in is a huge Montreal Canadiens fan (who is loving their run this year) and has us all decked out in classic Habs uniforms. We all pretty much suck but boy do we look good doing so.
My fave uncle played hockey until he was 80. Something to shoot for.
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