I never knew u lived in Toronto. I've been trying to book shoto for a long time but everytime I do its booked. Ive tried 2 weeks in advance. Did u try the tasting menu ??

Cafe boulud I've heard mixed things about but I wanna try it. I've went to Daniel Boulud's restaurant Daniel's in New York and that was awesome. You got any other places you like in Toronto ?

Hi Alex, grats on sne.
What's the deal with the freeroll point I have? Can I cash it in for the vpp bet for tomorrow?
Cheers

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Grats on SNE Alex!

this kind of encouragement isn't good for our hero here imo. the other day in my neuroscience class on the topic of neural plasticity the professor brought up this idea of "adaptive tracking", and i haven't wikipedia-d it, but the experiment we were discussing when he explained this idea was one in which monkeys were rewarded for successfully discriminating between two similar tones, and the experimental design was to make the task more and more difficult as the monkey got better and better such that he would only be rewarded with a 45mg banana flavored pellet between exactly 65%-75% of trials and then forced into a sitout period for a few seconds each failure (they would make it harder if he was completing above 75 and easier if below 65). apparently this has been determined to be the optimal ratio for conditioning. ergo we need to be balancing reward with harsh criticism in order for Alex to be maximally incentivised to do his best.

Mouldy Onions is a lock for 12x vpp Alex, get on it. We're not just handing out A's here anymore.

On it.

Alex, you are the worst. 1 mill VPPs and its already marsh? Pfff

Grats on SNE sir!

Mar 6


BR 130.1
VPP 1023.0

Got chunked 20 yesterday, kinda lame meh.

Questions
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First about shoto, yes you have to book in advance, actually I booked it the day before I got really lucky, around 10am to noonish if you refresh you can snag cancellations, also this month its slow, maybe because of the cold or something. If you want a party of 3 or 4 its a lot harder. There is only one menu at shoto, so yes.

CB NY is a 1 michelin star if I recall correctly. CB Toronto is not recognized in that way but the head chef is hand picked by Daniel Boulud, it has the same recipes and many of the other chefs are transplanted from CB NY.

All in all, its my favorite restaurant in the whole world pretty much. Toronto isn't really ready for a balling restaurant per se so the prices are almost half of what they would be elsewhere. So it's actually a value restaurant even though most people don't see it that way. If I lived in yorkville I would be coming here every other day. **** now I want some lobster bisque lol.

Another cool thing is that CB stepped up their game recently, they have special apps and entrees from time to time that are much higher priced where they just go all out and show off their A+ game. As someone who would be going to CB even if the price were double, that's just gravy.

One time I went and the manager came out and we talked about the restaurant for a while. They made a special dessert not on the menu for me and my friend, and he gave me his card and followed me on twitter (LOL) and told me to make sure he knows about it every time I go to CB. After that I feel like everyone in the place knows my name and that plus the service sends this place way over the top for me.

Any other places in TO? Hmm, I mean it all depends on the mood. I like Zanzibar over upper brass because its more chill, and you can get half bottles. Black hoof raw is very casual and you share the food but its kind of out of the way, good for dates though. Same with barchef (v intimate environment kinda), though kinda upset they pulled the peking duck club sandwich from the menu (seems like a small miff since its a place to drink not to eat, but that sandwich was really ****ing good).

Also Hemmingways is standard,... I donno... I could list a bunch of places but each place has their own niche kind of so it really depends on what you want to do. Some of the best times I have had have come in the most unlikely of places, eg. I would never walk into a vegan shack (near st. andrew) .. way too hipster for me, but someone dragged me there and it was really good. So maybe just try **** out.

Ya booked, I have a dentist appt now and then I'm gonna try to play, you def chose a good day considering what happened yesterday lol.

haha XD

Thanks

I went to the 3 star Daniel's in New York and that was awesome. I will def try CB. I really like Black Hoof. Is the raw bar the fish restaurant beside it ? . Have you gone to Bent or Lee's yet ? I havent been to Lee's in years, but they have this thing on the menu, Singapore slaw, that was one of the best things I've ever eaten.
I haven't read this whole thread, did you relocate to Toronto after bf?

hey mate congrats on SNE.

Do you use glass or something to save your eyes. if yes could you give link pls.

I work 40hrs a week and i play like 30+ hrs thats is 70+ hrs on computer every week. I don't think my eye can handle lot longer...

any suggestion with link anyone?

Mar 7


VPP 1045.5
BR 111.1

Yes this is the mar 7th graph, it looks very similar to the mar 6th but sadly its not
Got chunked another 20, pretty sick swings, also popped my 100k below cherry

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Questions

Raw bar is beside it, yeah. Try bream sashimi if they still have it.
Have I gone to bent/lees? Nah, doesn't really interest me (nor the singa slaw)
Relocate -- no, I was born in Toronto.

Do I use glasses? Yes, gunnar halogen onyx. I think they are overpriced but they work and are very useful for me, makes the light way less intense and allows me to focus on the screen more. I have tried the lower end gunnars and they absolutely suck, do not go cheap.

I gave a link here: http://www.amazon.com/GUNNAR-Compute...en+onyx+gunnar wow, they have come down a bit in price, I guess this isn't the newest model anymore.

Oh also someone did a photoshop of me, its really funny (a lot of jokes are based on a truth), recommend you guys all look: http://i946.photobucket.com/albums/a...psc9206ef9.jpg

Could aswell download F.lux for free. Basicly the same..

GL, AWice.

for me its not the same

not even close to the same

Does the job for me

tx guys i thing flux will do for now

If you are staring at a screen 70 hours a week then I would strongly suggest buying the glasses... lol.

What solution for those who wear prescription glasses though?

or else...

What do you think on gunnars in the vip store on stars, didnt found much of details on them, do you think they are in the similar range of quality as the ones you posted?

gl with life & challenge obv

I'm having the same problem here. It seems like my glasses degrees are getting higher as long as I play.

Mar 8


BR 130.1
VPP 1059.3

heat back 10 of that 40 i ran below GO

plus i came first in a 215 turbo kinda neat cuz i rarely play mtts

too bad instead of grinding i 1 tabled an mtt

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Questions

Gunnars in store? no they are not the same

Prescription? check the website I think they do em for you.

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Random rants

Hey guys, I think a $100 freeroll is so motivating for me to play 20k vpps a day I am thinking to have it every day, not sure best structure for people to claim it though. It really helps me play.

In other news, I sort of left exercise and eating right behind in the last while, I can do like 1/10th of what I could do before and I gained a bunch of weight too, and everything is such a struggle. Very disappointed in this ... I am thinking to move downtown in a few months and I need to be in shape. Yesterday I felt ****ty and I ate a steak, half rack of bacon, a bunch of pizza, fried chicken, etc. I'm such a weak ****. You would think losing 42k in two days doesn't matter / affect you (as I do), but then you do stupid **** that basically shows that it did, thats not an excuse but like I'm very disappointed in myself, so now getting back on that train too.

If I ran seriously bad yesterday and today instead I donno what woulda happened, that makes me feel pathetic that it only takes 4 bad days in a row for things to change, and also even I can get shook from 2 days even though I don't feel shook. Man anything can happen.