You know what they call a Quarter Pounder in France? A Royale with cheese.

More like city than country. A San Jose Big Mac is pushing five bucks, but they're under $4 here.

Cheeseburger stakes, IMO.

With the rise of "fast casual" restaurants, what's the average/median cheeseburger price now? Well over $5 for sure.

Think you have a lot of $7 and $8 burgers, like 5 guys and smashburger. Some of those places are charging for fries separately, so it is like $10 without drink. That's why I like the old school dive bar in our little town, $7 for a huge burger + fries, fresh cooked to order. Eat half of it for lunch and you're full. Angry 70 year old waitress? Talk to her free at every visit.

As an added bonus, none of the suburbanites will go near the place, so you're there with the colorful locals with none of the McMansion crowd to bother you.

Does that mean 4/8 players are the new cheeseburger stakes?

Basically, anything under 40/80.

>= 40/80 = chair stakes?

Stakes?

• Cheeseburger
• Steak
• Chair
• SUV

Steak for lunch stakes are a little smaller than steak for dinner stakes.

In grad school we discovered the Hotsy Totsy, a local dive bar. I was the designated driver that night.

Me: "Can I get a Coke?"
Angry 70 year old waitress: "Nope."
Me: "I'm the designated driver."
Waitress: "Don't be a pussy."
Me: "LOL, okay, look, I'll pay for a rum & Coke."
Waitress: "You're gonna get a rum & Coke then."
Me: "I suppose a glass of ice water is just gonna be out of the ques-"
Waitress: "Not a chance in hell."
Me: "Okay, thanks."

Ended up just going to the bathroom and drinking from the faucet.

She has the right idea.

btw, when my mother could drive she'd go to the local bowling alley bar bec she got friendly w/ the owner and could smoke/hang out. They served a really good burger also (did the cooking for the bowling alley). Even in Fountain Hills the place drew the bikers, heavily tattooed and not genteel and for whom the place had a 4 bottle Jaeger machine but they took a liking to dear old mom bec she's friendly and what the **** was she doing in that hole in the wall in the first place.

When my sister visited and saw where mom was eating lunch she worried that it wasn't safe and I laughed my ass off explaining that if anybody bothered mom he'd have to deal w/ a bar full of tough ass bikers which made it the safest place in town for her.

ffffffuuuuuuuuuu

I got the last laugh. We hung out there 2-3 times but then the East Bay Times voted it the Best Dive Bar and it got overrun by hipsters.

No sign of ZOMG_RIGGED?

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Avoidthe9to5 has returned in grand fashion and took over the medium stakes forum.

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Oh good morning.

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lmao. new undertitle for cali imo.

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Nchabazam is gone but the legend of the $4k chair lives on.

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I had a dream that I could dunk. Woke up and realized that I can't. #stillwhite

I had a dream that one of those times when everybody goes nutballs pre and we have it capped 6 ways and I flop top set that I will be allowed to win. IRL it's just a fantasy tho

HU otr: If I'm in a pot I habitually look at my cards a second time pf and I can't guess how many years it's been since someone has made me look at the board and check my cards again before 5-betting but an action player made me do it today. I might not live long enough to do it again. That's the game I dusted off 3 racks in, jfc. BUT:

I bought tickets for George Thorogood's show tonight months ago, got a great seat in the ballroom, and I suppose that I shouldn't have been surprised that they'd sold 200+ standing room tickets which wasn't too bad since everyone was standing for most of the show anyway. But to pay to stand against the front wall where you can only see the show from the side means you've got to want to go real. damn. bad. Thorogood did his best to play to them but, still. Great show, btw.

I played a hand almost like that in spread limit. The hand was straddled, and as happens sometimes to negate the straddle, it was minraised 3 times and already capped when it got to me with two queens. Flop was dry, king high. It checked around, turn was also dry. I bet and everyone folded, LOL.

I bet the river in a 17.5 bet pot 5 ways last night and got 4 folds.

Lol'd. When I jump up to hit the fire alarm that's blaring and out of reach, I give myself a pep-talk. "I'm Michael Jordan! I'm Michael Jordan!" Works, btw. As close as I'll get to the pro's.

You can buy the shoes

"The worst ****ing thing you can do at a poker table is slowroll...so rude..."

<guy returns to watching video w/audio on phone with no headset>

I've been playing Cepheus a ton and was going to post the results of a 10 game match but when I'd finished it was too embarrassing. GL, humanity, dealing w/ the machines that are on the way.

Have you played AvoidThe9to5?