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11-19-2020 , 02:46 PM
I swear they don’t miss flushes on these apps
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11-19-2020 , 03:06 PM
I've admittedly been taking a risk playing in crowded environments where no one wears a mask. Averaging $50K/month last few months so I'm willing to risk it. I've never felt sick yet and I live alone. If I did get sick I'd stay home for a while.
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11-19-2020 , 03:12 PM
Man working from home ****ing sucks. I get a bit bored and I’m starting to get carpal tunnel. If I wasn’t making 51k a month I’d be so over this
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11-19-2020 , 03:20 PM
Yeah I've heard live games have all been great. I don't understand how he just doesn't study instead of actually playing if he wants to "grind". Studying is a huge component to getting better. I don't think it's possible to actually play PLO remotely competently without spending alot of time utilizing software and watching videos. I am making tons of mistakes, game is v complex, and I've documented several times where Galfond makes clear errors pf in PLO, it's just a ton to memerize and learn.

I was a winning TAG NLHE player since I read Phil Helmuths how to play hold em like the pros.
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11-19-2020 , 03:22 PM
Ski season starts tomorrow out here. I will be working on my social distancing skills doin teh human slalom on the white ribbon of death with spc.
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11-19-2020 , 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by XtraScratch8
What’s your trust level regarding the app games?
As in how safe do you think the software and games themselves are (collusion, etc.)?
Are you meaning pokerbros by app games?

I play in a private game with the same guys I play with in the casino. The game plays / feels straight. I know 90% of the players well. I have little trust for general apps.


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11-19-2020 , 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by RobFarha
I swear they don’t miss flushes on these apps

You should play against me


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11-19-2020 , 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by 11t
Yeah I've heard live games have all been great. I don't understand how he just doesn't study instead of actually playing if he wants to "grind". Studying is a huge component to getting better. I don't think it's possible to actually play PLO remotely competently without spending alot of time utilizing software and watching videos. I am making tons of mistakes, game is v complex, and I've documented several times where Galfond makes clear errors pf in PLO, it's just a ton to memerize and learn.

I was a winning TAG NLHE player since I read Phil Helmuths how to play hold em like the pros.
AKA The Bible
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11-19-2020 , 03:25 PM
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Man working from home ****ing sucks. I get a bit bored and I’m starting to get carpal tunnel. If I wasn’t making 51k a month I’d be so over this
Didn't know semen donation was that much of a gold mine. Or did you just jack up (off?) the price for 11t?
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11-19-2020 , 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by 11t
Yeah I've heard live games have all been great. I don't understand how he just doesn't study instead of actually playing if he wants to "grind". Studying is a huge component to getting better. I don't think it's possible to actually play PLO remotely competently without spending alot of time utilizing software and watching videos. I am making tons of mistakes, game is v complex, and I've documented several times where Galfond makes clear errors pf in PLO, it's just a ton to memerize and learn.

I was a winning TAG NLHE player since I read Phil Helmuths how to play hold em like the pros.
Studying is not fun. It takes time, thought, and hard work. Just like getting good at anything. Which is y most people dont get particularly good at stuff.

Like Ronnie Coleman said, "Every one wants to be a body builder, but no one wants to lift the heavy ass weight." Prolly one of the most poignant things I have ever read
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11-19-2020 , 03:29 PM
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No love for The News?!?
I have the HL&TN latest album (are they actually albums anymore?) on my iPhone.

Plenty of love for those dudes. Sports and Fore were 2 great albums.
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11-19-2020 , 03:34 PM
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Anyone in here ever had vivid dreams while still 100% awake, either right before going to sleep or right after waking up?

Last night I had been up for 24+ hours straight and my body still didn't want to go to sleep. Just by closing my eyes a VERY vivid dream would appear before me. I read this can happen with narcolepsy. I could wave my hands in front of my face and make beautiful colors appear (I could not see my hands themselves as my eyes were closed and I had a sleep mask on) but I was still fully awake. I could quit the dream and send msgs on my phone and then simply close my eyes to see vivid dream images again.

There was a sound element too which I've noticed for two days straight. I can hear music playing and that's regardless of whether I had my eyes closed (in fact while typing this I have started hearing music playing...i'm a bit drowsy at the moment and it may think it's time for more sleep)

When I would turn a noisy white noise maker on it makes better more vivid songs come on. The other night I could hear thunderstruck by ACDC playing and I could not figure out which device it was coming out of. It took me forever to realize it was in my head but sounds like it's coming from the white noise. I then heard Keep on Loving You by REO Speedwagon which I had had played earlier in the day and the rendition was identical, the cords and everything.

Anyways, just wondering if anyone has had a similar experience with no drugs before.
Slow pony, but when I was going through Covid I had a similar experience with vivid dreams (not so much semi-conscious visions) and the like. It only lasted a couple days though.
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11-19-2020 , 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr Spyutastic
I've heard of and unfortunately watched 2 and 3. But I think there was even a 4th.

They got weirder and worse with each passing minute. I remember one like spontaneously turned into some religious movie halfway through.
But wait there's more
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/enc...me.php?id=4136

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The one where the telepaths worshipped the ancient nuclear bomb was my least favorite in the series.

And with that very very very dated reference that few will recognize I'll just see my way out now.
#2 was even more blatantly a sequel in name only, I think the bugs possessed people so they could dialogue with the federation.

Lost?

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Oh, I'm so very mad.



I hate both the choice and the execution. The choice wouldn't be so bad if it weren't pretending to be based on Heinlein's book, but the execution was ham-handed enough that it would still be a dumpster fire of a movie.
This is basically wrong. ST was heavily based on historical WW2 propaganda and is what the Federation would have produced. The only variation is the nude scenes and the extended action shots, which would have been based on their market researchers.

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I recently read an article on the lifetime of various music formats (in terms of physically wearing out) and was kinda surprised at how short a lot of the lifetimes are supposed to be. I still have all my tapes (I prolly switched to CD in mid-late 90s?) and am kinda curious as to whether they still work. Still have a walkman stored away somewhere.

GmightgiveitagoG
I'd guess the player fails before the album. I guess you have to go online to find another VCR, cassette player etc.

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’s bizarre. Are you sure you were dreaming the entire time? I’ve had a few very vivid dreams before. It was always the same one where I awake in my bed and hear someone break into my home. My brain is telling me to get up and go grab a bat or weapon and find the person. Instead, I am completely paralyzed and cant move. Like literally can’t move. I wake up for real and am still stuck in paralysis. It’s takes what feels like an eternity (prob just seconds) and can finally get out of bed.


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I read something about this, you could be brainwashed.

I think my sleep paralysis-home invasion combo dreams all followed 24+ hour poker sessions.


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2 days ago I discovered someone very important to me from my past had died last year and that really upset me so yeah it's been a lot of covid bs but discovering that caused me to lose a lot of sleep the night previous and most certainly set my overall recovery back but I am still improving each day I think.
96 year old former piano teacher last week (natural causes)
very old Irish former baby-sitter today (covid)

So you suspect that you have the rona? Do you attribute it to the Dallas card room?

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Ski season starts tomorrow out here. I will be working on my social distancing skills doin teh human slalom on the white ribbon of death with spc.
Girl at bar last night showed me her 1990s Vail ski pass. Even back then they had pictures. Would they make you remove the scarf and ski mask?
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11-19-2020 , 04:19 PM
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Girl at bar last night showed me her 1990s Vail ski pass. Even back then they had pictures. Would they make you remove the scarf and ski mask?
Been skiing Keystone the past two weeks (same pass that skwid has) and they just scan the pass...mutter your name...and you're good to go. Required mask everywhere....including when you are actually flying down the White Ribbon Of Death (Yeah skwid, Key has one too)
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11-19-2020 , 04:25 PM
DMW - This season for vail resorts which includes PC:

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Face coverings will be required to access the mountain, in all indoor spaces, in any line, in charilifts and gondolas, and whenever you are unable to maintain physical distance.
I don't see how they are going to ask customers to lower their face coverings to verify they are in fact the pass holder. But you never know...after tomorrow I can let u know how they plan on handling that aspect
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11-19-2020 , 04:27 PM
KS - gunna have to mask up whilest playing the human pinball on the WROD...AMIRITE!?!
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11-19-2020 , 04:30 PM
I wonder if they will be pairing people on the lifts. Tend to doubt it
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11-19-2020 , 04:32 PM
Assassin's Creed Valhalla is ****ing sweet btw.
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11-19-2020 , 04:32 PM
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This is basically wrong. ST was heavily based on historical WW2 propaganda and is what the Federation would have produced. The only variation is the nude scenes and the extended action shots, which would have been based on their market researchers
The nude scenes were fine. The action sequences were god-awful and the antithesis of Heinlein's point. I didn't say the propaganda part was what I had a problem with (though to a certain extent I did), but most of my issue with it was the ridiculous depiction of the military. PV's military was untrained, undisciplined yahoos, whereas Heinlein was presenting the military as a highly selective profession requiring discipline and specialized knowledge.

Heinlein depicted the training as extremely difficult, but very effective, whereas PV depicted it as a joke. The scene with the accidental shooting is where the movie completely lost me, both for its stupid depiction of the training and for the main character being allowed to continue after that.

Then they get out in combat are armed with distance weapons and are fighting bugs who are hand-to-hand (or tentacle-to-hand, whatever) only. So what do these "highly trained" rifle-armed soldiers do? They charge towards the bug, masking each-other's fire and getting into its range. Makes sense, because we all know how much better rifles work on bus-sized targets from 10 feet than from 100. :eyeroll:

I could go on for longer than the stupid movie. PV wanted to make an anti-militarism SF movie, which he did poorly because he doesn't understand the military at all, but whatevs. I would just find the movie mildly annoying if it didn't claim to be based on Heinlein. There was no cause at all to link it to a pro-military classic that argued (I would agree likely incorrectly) that a government run exclusively by veterans would be largely like any other government except for its focus on civic duty and tried to break stereotypes of soldiers as dumb drones and/or cowboys.
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11-19-2020 , 04:35 PM
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Studying is not fun. It takes time, thought, and hard work. Just like getting good at anything. Which is y most people dont get particularly good at stuff.

Like Ronnie Coleman said, "Every one wants to be a body builder, but no one wants to lift the heavy ass weight." Prolly one of the most poignant things I have ever read
i don't disagree with you but have you seen Ronnie Coleman lately?
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11-19-2020 , 04:36 PM
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I wonder if they will be pairing people on the lifts. Tend to doubt it
As of today they are currently they are saying only same party guests will be riding together on lifts.
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11-19-2020 , 04:38 PM
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i don't disagree with you but have you seen Ronnie Coleman lately?

Yea - very sad. But his point is that no one wants to do the hard work. Which when u look around any bro type of gym. Pretty much no one is doing hard work. Cuz it aint fun. At all.
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11-19-2020 , 04:39 PM
Speaking of nude scenes the new show on HBO called Industry is pretty good. Young 20 somethings trying to make it in a London high finance office...includes a lot of late night hijinks

First episode gets 8/10 on Slim meter
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11-19-2020 , 04:56 PM
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So you suspect that you have the rona? Do you attribute it to the Dallas card room?
I suspect covid-19 and I hope it is covid-19 because the alternative would likely be much worse.

I mostly attribute it to the jackass who sat on my direct right on Friday night. He had his mask fully under his mouth much of the time. I should have elbowed him in the face. Not for giving me covid but for playing horrible Indian music clips loudly without headphones. Dude to his right would be in the middle of a big hand and this jackass would start playing some clip online and you couldn't even hear the poker room's music he had it blasting so loud.

But yeah, the dealers don't want to enforce mask rules because they depend on tips from said players who may not want to be told what to do. At the time I did a quick glance around the full room and noticed 8 players who didn't have their mask on properly at all. Floor was running around like chickens with their heads cut off doing other things. Security was not on the poker room floor but I will give the security guards credit they don't **** around when telling people to put their masks on. Some of those dudes musta worked at the penitentiary or something cause they don't ask nicely whatsoever.

Of course it could have come from chips/cards and then me not washing my hands for as long as you're supposed to or something like that. Other than the card room, I did pick my Porsche up from the shop. I'd be shocked if they aren't taking huge precautions throughout their shop based on the outrageous prices they charge. They don't even allow customers in the building during covid. The only other place I go to is an overpriced taco shop but I'm normally in and out real quick just picking up an order and that place has made like a bajillion changes since covid and seem pretty anal about it.
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11-19-2020 , 04:57 PM
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i don't disagree with you but have you seen Ronnie Coleman lately?
Nah, do you know which card room he's playing at?
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