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12-15-2019 , 04:47 AM



It's pretty popular for string quartets??? to cover songs by tool and I love all of them
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12-15-2019 , 07:00 AM
Head right from the Ninty-nine-90, traverse about 300yards and you find this...

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12-15-2019 , 07:03 AM
Head left from the Ninty-nine-90, down into 94Turns and you find this...

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12-15-2019 , 07:05 AM
And head down the the bottom of Town Lift, traverse uphill about 100yards, making sure you enter via the gate, you find this...

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12-15-2019 , 11:08 AM
Got dam lapi u r making me miss PC even more...my boy runs the show at high west distillery
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12-15-2019 , 12:54 PM
37" at Breckenridge last 72 hours.

j/s
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12-15-2019 , 05:21 PM
snow pron!
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12-15-2019 , 07:21 PM
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37" at Breckenridge last 72 hours.

j/s
Yeah, they definitely got the goods. Looks like it helped them open up 10 as well which is nice.
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12-15-2019 , 08:08 PM
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And head down the the bottom of Town Lift, traverse uphill about 100yards, making sure you enter via the gate, you find this...

That's a very nice looking glass.
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12-15-2019 , 08:44 PM
Heartattack Niners strike again. This time it really bites them in the ass.
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12-15-2019 , 10:04 PM
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Originally Posted by miamicheats
I will stop complaining about AA for a few months. Played a hand yesterday that made up for the years worth of beat downs I took.

25/50/100/200

A few limps, I make it 1600 with black Aces from the bb (50). 2 calls - 1 from the 200 double straddle and 1 from one of the limpers.

QT3ssd
I 2k, double straddle calls, other folds

Turn is a blank 6 or 7 iirc

I check he bets 10k, I tank ship for 22k and win both run outs vs what I presume was 89ss


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nh. Since the board is wet with straight and flush draws, shouldn't the bet be closer to 2/3s pot? I agree making it less if the board is drier..
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12-15-2019 , 10:13 PM
As for me, the last few months, I ve only been posting bad hands, this is finally a hand that gave me a feeling of sweet satisfaction.

1/3 effective stacks 350 or so, villain's only played a few hands seems TAG and reggy.

Folds to him, raises 8 from the B.


hero is in BB, 3bets to 27 with 5d4d.


Flop (55) 5c3d2c

Hero bets 35, Villain calls.

Turn (125) 6c

Hero checks, villain bets 55.

River (245) 8h

Hero checks, villain goes all in for 255 or something

Hero thinks for a bit, calls. Villain shows AdJd for busted backdoor flush draw.

What is very satisfying about this hand is that Villain tried to take advantage of my perceived capped JJ+ AK range and found out the hard way that the range was a bit less capped than that.

(chef's kiss)

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12-15-2019 , 10:26 PM
Working on my coach of the year acceptance speech. Have my team scrapping. They were well under .500 their past two seasons and have them rollin' at 11-4 and fighting for a good seed in the EOY tournament.

For any old school wrestling fans out there - I have started calling them the Red Roosters. Average size. Average ability. Average intellect. But I am making them into winners! lol

Planning on this being my last year coaching and wasn't sure if this was the right team to exit on but it's working out.
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12-15-2019 , 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by BigSkip
Working on my coach of the year acceptance speech. Have my team scrapping. They were well under .500 their past two seasons and have them rollin' at 11-4 and fighting for a good seed in the EOY tournament.

For any old school wrestling fans out there - I have started calling them the Red Roosters. Average size. Average ability. Average intellect. But I am making them into winners! lol

Planning on this being my last year coaching and wasn't sure if this was the right team to exit on but it's working out.
Congratulations skip!
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12-16-2019 , 01:47 AM
Do we still do COTM? I would kind like to do one. My first thought would be calling polarized bets on the river. It’s made me soooo much money over the last few months At $1/2 $80-$90/hr but only over 120ish hours and I’m really fine tuning the best spots to use it instead of “they bomb river no one bombs river without the nuts”. But if we think that might be too advanced For LLSNL then I’m open for suggestions to write up about anything else really. I’d probably format it similar to my last COTM from a long time ago. What you guys think?

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12-16-2019 , 08:13 AM
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It's pretty popular for string quartets??? to cover songs by tool and I love all of them
cellos playing hard rock has been done before

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12-16-2019 , 09:03 AM
Pony, I'd love to see COTM come back. If you think you can do one on polarized river bets, that would be great.
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12-16-2019 , 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by OvertlySexual
nh. Since the board is wet with straight and flush draws, shouldn't the bet be closer to 2/3s pot? I agree making it less if the board is drier..


Ty

Game flow and know your man


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12-16-2019 , 09:39 AM
Nice skippy! That’s awesome.


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12-16-2019 , 09:41 AM
Ran really well yesterday taking a beat at 5/10 when I was expecting to play bigger but the game didn’t materialize.

Gii bvb on the turn with 47cc v 55 losing both runs in a limped pot (I was bb)

K53ccx6



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12-16-2019 , 11:20 AM
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Hero bets 35, Villain calls.

Turn (125) 6c

Hero checks, villain bets 55.

River (245) 8h

Hero checks, villain goes all in for 255 or something

Hero thinks for a bit, calls. Villain shows AdJd for busted backdoor flush draw.

What is very satisfying about this hand is that Villain tried to take advantage of my perceived capped JJ+ AK range and found out the hard way that the range was a bit less capped than that.

(chef's kiss)
I feel like V really butchered this one. If that's really his opinion of your range, he might have butchered every street down to the fact that JJ would be the hand you'd be most likely to fold and he has a J.

Of course, allowing people to hang themselves is an important skill, and you did it perfectly.

River seems like a bit of a nit roll if you thought for more than a few seconds to make sure you had a straight and stuff.
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12-16-2019 , 11:48 AM
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thats not really fair. Ringo is, well, Ringo. there are probably a handful of drummers ever that you could put in that band in the format of everyone having to sing and have it not be disastrous. especially since John, Paul and George were probably all musical geniuses. look at how many drummers can actually sing. Phil Collins, Don Henley, Levon Helm and Dave Grohl are the only ones i can think of off the top of my head.

and without Ringo, eight days a week, tomorrow never knows, hard day's night, i can't remember the other Ringoisms that became songs, but i'm sure there are more.
I kind of hate the Beatles.

To me, their veneration is an example of boomer self importance. The silly pop groups of their youth can't be just that. They have to be regarded like Mozart or some ish.

And I think that attitude has spilled over and contaminated following generations. For example, how pop performers are now referred to as "artists" by default.

It's always been extremely off putting to me when people well into their adult years closely disect and discuss pop music like it was really serious. And they always like very boring stuff. The Beatles being a prime example. Weak. Low energy.
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12-16-2019 , 12:02 PM
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I feel like V really butchered this one. If that's really his opinion of your range, he might have butchered every street down to the fact that JJ would be the hand you'd be most likely to fold and he has a J.

Of course, allowing people to hang themselves is an important skill, and you did it perfectly.

River seems like a bit of a nit roll if you thought for more than a few seconds to make sure you had a straight and stuff.
I think villain is also trying to take advantage of two other population tendencies in the nitty morning games I play. The first is that from most fish to most regs, everyone has overlearned the lesson of not going broke with one pair hands. So, while a few people get married to their Aces and Kings, a lot would fold even those hands there. Add the fact I have some A highs (let's add AQ as well) and his bluff might be going through enough times to be profitable.

The other lesson is that an all-in bet on the river tends to be very nut-valuey. In other words, although the average player might try a small bet to get value with two pair and sets, he rarely shoves those hands, even though I barely have any flushes in my range and I shouldn't have any straights either. Moreover, everyone seems to have the clever idea of overbet shoving to make their bet look like a bluff, but most forget to overbet shove as a bluff. Personally, if I were in the same spot against an unknown with AA-KK, I would be shitting bricks and I would be leaning towards an exploitative fold.

In general, it's a good question with what overpairs I call in that spot. The obvious answer is with AcXc and KcKx for sure, but maybe I should be betting a good percentage of those on the turn?

It's interesting you noticed that villain was blocking my JJ and thus AJ wasn't a good bluff. In his shoes, my instinct would have been to bluff with AcXx and KcXx, but maybe those aren't the best blockers to bluff with if Villain has shown he doesn't have a flush. With that logic AK is a good bluff candidate because it blocks my overpair calling range, but then again AK has some showdown value.

So what are good hands to bluff with?
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12-16-2019 , 12:04 PM
The Beatles are far from weak and low energy compared to the other music of their era. It also lasted better than most, partially because the 70s generally sucked musically, so the 60s classics were able to have strong legs. For the record, I am not a boomer, but as a Gen X kid I enjoyed The Beatles a lot and listened to them more than any current music until the New Wave and College Radio sounds came out.

That said, I don't think they were great art. Still a pioneering rock band though. And anyone who is making their own music (rather than buying it) is an artist, imo, even if they aren't a particularly good one.
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12-16-2019 , 12:07 PM
On a different note, what are people's experiences with the poker room on snow days? I'm guessing we loose most of the average recs, and leaves us with a game polarized between grinders putting in their hours and degens who aren't going to let snowy roads keep them away. That about right? I actually have time to play tonight, but might just stay home and watch MNF instead.
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