A person has so few meals in their life and having something that is truly great is so easy. I will never understand those that throw away meals.

9 square feet of earth
1 cherokee heirloom tomato plant
1 row red onion
1 ararat basil plant
Red wine vinegar from bottle of grenache i left out.

tomato very thick
onions VERY thin
basil chiffonade
vinegar sparse
sea salt to taste
cost...pennies
mouthgasm

Nah man I'm grinding it out online now. Like it so much more

Lol I have no idea what is going on in this thread.

No problemo; neither does stampler.

I can't trump that, but here's what I did for dinner tonight:

Put up a pot of brown rice to cook while everything else comes together

Defrost the container of homemade tomato sauce that I made from last summer's crop of tomatoes from our CSA box.

Peel and chop a handful of shallots plus about four cloves of garlic.

Preheat the oven to 375ºF

Sautée the garlic and shallots in olive oil, until the shallots are pearly and translucent. Scrape them out of the saucepan and onto a plate.

Brown four chicken thighs, first skin side down, then turn over, about four minutes on each side.

Place the saucepan into the now-hot oven and let it bake for 20 minutes.

Return the saucepan to the stovetop, and take out the chicken thighs, putting them on the same plate as the shallots and garlic.

Pour 3/4 cup red wine (I used a local Cabernet that was sitting around the kitchen, opened) into the saucepan and heat. Loosen the bits that are stuck to the bottom of the pan with a spatula. Let the liquid boil away until about half gone.

Add the tomato sauce, about two cups, and mix with the deglazed chicken drippings and wine.

Add the shallots and garlic and the chicken legs. Sprinkle some spices like basil and oregano (I used an Italian herb mix from Penzie's) and stir it in.

Cover and simmer over low heat for a few minutes more.

Serve over the rice. (Or over pasta, if you're feeling that way. I'm stuck with the brown rice for dietary reasons.)

Gloat, because you are eating it and those hosers on 2+2 aren't.

If you're going to do food porn, pictures please.

That reminds me to shout this question down the well:

Tony Bourdain: Genius or Jerk?

lol. +1.

but u know hez got soul!

salivating.

neither.

mediocre cook. hustler. perceptive. engaged. right place right time. HARD WORKER.

I'm glad somebody gets it.

Like I said earlier, I have no interest in the foodie scene anymore.
I can't even watch Top Chef without wincing,
and I never felt comfortable dining out.
I would just critique everything, and feel like I should be in the kitchen.

How bout iron chef zakarian v. faulkner? pretty sick how insanely gifted they are. Inspiring.

I dunno, have'nt seen it. (dont watch TV)
skilled might be a better word choice than 'gifted'.
you pay to acquire those skills, it's no gift.
and working in a kitchen is hell, btw, no matter how glamorous they try to make it look on TV. (dont get me wrong, im not saying that its not a high art.)
and theres no secret formula to how badass they are. its simply work+correct guidance.
on the aforementioned show i've seen more fancy-play-syndrome than actual displays of skill for the most part.

I'm not that interested in discussing food ITT, except how it, and cooking pertain to poker, no offense.

"Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live."
-Socrates.

If you eat food with the same hand that you touch chips/cards with you are a gross human being

getting back to the movie,
does anyone feel like commenting on how
the man with no name demonstrates the qualities
of single-mindedness,
of having the killer instinct.
of being a winner?

the plot and dialogue are rife with examples.

I think there is something to be learned as a poker player
from how he handles himself.

RECIPE FOR SUCCESS:

1] give everything you've got

2] repeat daily


Hard work spotlights the character of people.
some turn up their sleeves,
some turn up their noses,
and some don't turn up at all. - Sam Ewing

biggest pot ever won?

I don't discuss results.
so, I'm not sure what i can tell you about it?

one thing i remember is that i kinda half-tauntingly was joking w/
villian earlier on that i was gonna stack him, as he had drawn out a bunch, and built up a big stack. It was new years; crazy atmosphere.
I had a bad hand, and hit the nuts.
he could'nt even figure out what i had, or understand how his hand was no good at showdown.
the dealer had to explain it to him.
confessions of a bum-hunter, really.

was'nt sure about the interest that a thread strictly about mind-set topics would get here.
most ppl just are'nt interested, and ive found that in some of the threads ive posted, in which ive presented possible mindset soultions to OPs problems, that i either get ignored, argued with, and rarely does anyone seem to get it.

i think this phenomenom of ppl having thier mindset as the elephant in the room keeps poker plenty profitable, despite ppl 'knowing what they are doing' at an ever increasing frequency.

i think i make more $ off of the FPS 'poker experts' than the nits who keep playing exactly the same year after year, and never work on, or improve their game. they never put a chip in the pot.

the thing is that working on your mindset is where improving really pays huge dividends.
its why fundemantally poor, but psychologically tuff players can out-survive the 'skilled and knowlegeable' players who have no mindset.

a lot of threads i read have a simple mindset solution.
the problem OP has isnt a card playing problem.
he/she knows the fundemantals to a degree, but is lying to themselves,
that the play was supposed to be profitable. the reason that they talked themselves into this trap is shrouded in leaks that are in their psycholgy.
they are thinking wrong, not playing wrong, exactly.
playing wrong just comes as a natural consequence of thier psycological leaks, so the mistake isnt where it seems to be. it's hidden, and therefore extremely dangerous.
the thing about leaks, and this is coming from a plumber, as well as a chef, (and a classical musician), is that they are constant, so the losses from them are exponentially bigger than one realizes. slow leaks are the worst, and most damaging. (you dont find it until its too late).
it's accumulative, so what at the moment may seem trivial, compounds into huge black holes eventually if you dont fix them. in theory, the losses you will sustain are infinite if not attended to.
however, most ppl will never stop to consider that they have mindest leaks in thier thinking, and in their psychology.
in the coaching that i was lucky enough to find, most of the corrections that were pointed out to me were in my flawed thinking. learning to think correctly just vanishes the poker errors which are spawned by the flawed thinking.

you fix the thinking = you fix the poker errors that keep happening as a result of the flawed thinking.

playing poorly is often more of a symptom, than the root of the problem.
it's actually just a sign, not the problem itself.

i wish i could just intellectually know the correct play in every possible situation (which is an infinite set of situations in poker), and just make it every time.

i would be in HS if i could.
a lot of us would be.
LLS forum is a beginners forum, true, but knowledge which is standard here is light years beyond that which winning 2/5 grinder-pros in vegas have.
i'm shocked by how bad some of hem are, and yet they can beat tourists out of a grinder-apartment living somehow.
so what is keeping all of you back from just crushing them? and the tourists, (which is what you will be when you show up in town to hand the weak-tight grinder-pros asses to them).

thats my sermon at the moment; dont marginalize the importance of the impact that your mindset has on your score at the cage.

will see if the movie gets any more interest;
its a gold-mine of mindset insights into becoming a dispassionate soul crushing machine.
gotta figure out how to post the movie clips instead of mere links, and get it rolling again soon.

^Gold just happened.

How do you get people to stop talking about poker at the table

ive talked to certain ppl (who are sharp enough to get it)
away from the table, and actually gotten good results, and actual 'ah hah' moments, which in itself is rewarding, and then its obviously good for the game when its implimented.
^^^about as close to 'coaching' ppl in my own player pool that i'll get.
(cuz, obv we all profit >>>*profit*).

just the other day in a PLO game, i get a terrible seat draw next to a good kid, and hyper-intelligent; talking a mile a minute (he can keep up);
and hes saying every poker buzzword in the poker lexicon strung together,punctuated by the occasional random other word.
very likable kid.
there was only one obv rec player; a nice rich lady.

i kinda quitely point out by asking a question, 'youve never noticed that ppl may get uncomfortable about that?" in a diplomatic tone (i wasnt tilted, lol)
he says, quite honestly "no, i havent";
i told him 'look for it"
which was funny cuz it was right in front of his face.

ive mostly had success by just taking the play away, and making silly half mocking comments like i am a total tard.
the good players get it, and it derails the bad ones.
basically it's the 'changing the subject' routine.
doing it through deflecting the conversation in a tangental way without actually ever protesting.

i dont always handle so well, though.
if i lose my calm, it doesnt help.
with one guy in vegas, and ANL knows exactly who this is, and who is the worst. (and hes old enough, and been around enough to know better.)
i have decided im not getting dealt in a single hand with him at my table.
for lifetime.
just today he moves to my table second time this trip, and i snap quit.
(actually had just got back from a break)
i told him i was committed to never playing with him again ,
that we won.
that he was the local.
I defer.

the previous time that i quit the table because of him i told him, quite suncerely that i thought he ruined every game that i had ever been in with him ( and this is for 4-5 years?)

he told me i had issues.

well, exactly.
good read, bro.

"Which deception is more dangerous? Whose recovery is more doubtful?
That of the one who does not see, or that of the person who sees and yet does not see?
Which is more difficult? to awaken someone who is sleeping or to awaken someone who, awake, is dreaming he is awake?


"Only one deception is possible in the infinite sense, self-deception"


-Soren Kierkegaard

self-deception is at the root of most leaks, imo.

I dont think Ive had one recent losing session at 2/5 or below in which I couldnt quantify (almost down to last $ in equity) exactly where I went wrong during that session. Ditto for winning sessions, ie "I could have $110 more in my pockey right now if I woulda did this this and this and not done that".

The defective mindset as the root of defective play concept is true to a large degree imo. At llsnl, youre not really battling anyone at the table... youre battling yourself.

And honestly its easy to dismiss the notion of being at your sharpest mentally when you know that any of the 8 players at any table you sit down at will be leaky at best, a total donator at worst. You start to think you can sit down after a jarring day at work, a fight with your gf, and a diabetes diagnosis at your doctors appt, and still make money. Maybe maybe not. But you will almost definitely throw a certain amount of $ away. Nobodys beating u out of it. Youre beating yourself out of it. Ability isnt the problem, competition isnt the problem. Youre thinking and your emotions are. This might be the one way that low stakes and high stakes are the same.

I wish I was TMWNN. But Im not. My name is J****** and Im a self-important unique friggin snowflake star of my own movie and thats why I dont make as much as I could at low stakes.

Btw, Im just waiting for some lurker to pop up w/ a TMWNN account w/ a Clint Eastwood avatar via this thread. It will happen.

ya, the only place you should be trying to prove something to yourself is at the cage, when youre stacking benjamins, not at the table when youre stacking up FPS plays.

just the semantics of the 'Hero/Villian' dichotomy tends to lead us down a path towards starring in a movie in our own minds.

the 'hero' call, and esp. the 'hero bluff'; while leveling oneself, are amateur plays that are most of the time fueled by a need to impress oneself; more than because they are supposed to be profitable. (which is the sole motivation of 'the man', if you noticed.)