This Everleaf debacle made me submit my final online poker payout (sans FT/Cereus $)

I don't ever really have much time to play and my hourly isn't that high playing with a micro stakes bankroll.

Just hoping I can leverage my sister's connections and get an internship this Summer and be officially done with poker.

Any of you guys who live in London, I'd really appreciate it if you took a couple of minutes to read this thread: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17.../#post31452991

wow awesome stuff ursine I have a question What is the best way to get the most awesome steak ever?

Ursine that looks fantastic. Wish I had the cash to fly you in for my wedding, but I doubt it is worth your time to even make a quotation.

This is quite a good thread with lots of useful information: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/34...-steak-836907/

My personal method:

• Buy good quality meat! Decent thickness, nice marbling. Unless you're trying to eat more healthily don't bother with fillets, they don't taste anywhere near as good as other cuts. My usual cut is a ribeye.
• Take steak out of fridge up to an hour before cooking, so the middle is not still cold when cooked
• Dry steak with kitchen paper, pepper, then salt it generously on both sides
• Heat pan to a very high heat, where it's just starting to smoke, but not till it's white hot or you'll end up with a burnt crust, rather than a nice caramelised one
• Ideally use a cast iron pan, but a non-stick will be ok. Never use a griddle as half the steak gets steamed rather than browned. BBQ/grilling is fine, but I prefer mine done in a pan.
• Put the steak in without any oil. The Maillard reaction will ensure it releases itself and doesn't stick.
• There's no easy way to tell timings, as it very much depends on the thickness of your steak and the temperature of your pan. As a rough guide, 1.5 mins per side should get you somewhere near med-rare on an average thickness steak. You can use a temperature probe to achieve perfect results every time, but once you've cooked enough you'll get used to how they feel when you prod them. Supposedly if you touch your thumb and forefinger together, the thumb part of your palm will feel rare, middle finger and thumb will be med-rare, and ring finger and thumb will be medium. I guess it's not a bad guide.
• If you have a really thick cut steak you should either cook it at a lower temperature so it gets cooked through before the crust gets burnt, or finish it off in a 200C oven for a minute or two. I prefer doing the latter.
• Basting with butter towards the end of cooking is optional. I do it more often than not, but it's not what makes the steak.
• The most important part of cooking a steak is the resting. However long you've cooked the meat for you must rest it for AT LEAST as long, to let the fibres relax and begin to reabsorb loads of the juices. Some people like to remove the steak from the pan and let it rest on a board. I personally just remove my pan from the heat a bit before it's cooked and put a lid on it. This has a similar effect to finishing it off in the oven, and is an easy and lazy way to rest. The only problem here is if you're using a cast iron pan which retains a lot of heat. In this case it's probably best to remove it from the pan.

Feel free to PM me a very quick note about numbers, requirements and budget and I can answer that for you

if you are ever in Belgium I want you to cook for my parents haha Thanks for the tips!

looks amazing ursine. you're presentation is top notch as well.

Played kind of a nutso hand tonight that may just be entirely too read dependent to post but w/e.

I open JT to 35 in EP, 3 callers. Reads on main villain: bad reg who is drinking and does stupid **** sometimes but also will call super light. He's not a good player, but can hand read a bit. We are ~2500 deep.

I cbet 873 105, he makes it 465. For a player of this type, I think the sizing is almost always bluffy, but the problem is he can obv he bluffing with a better flush draw. What do people do here? I decided to call and reevaluate turn, but that may not be optimal.

Turn is Q, I check, he bets 890. Again, this looks super bluffy to me. I find that bad regs always size bluffs to look like value bets, hence the 90. I thought for a bit and shoved. Unfortunately I didn't have quite as much as I thought (only like 1100 more, thought it was more like 1400). Seems like LOL POT ODDS, but I think live people see that it is such a huge amount that trumps the odds or whatever. I don't have a terrible image vs. this guy either--I've check raised him for value a bunch in the past. My major concern is that he's drinking and playing pretty loose, so he might find a call with something dumb. I dunno, how do people play the flop and turn here?

on the other hand why couldn't he play face up his set like that when you acknowledge that his turnbet looks like a valuebet? You don't say how his bluff frequencies are nor how spewy he is I do agree that his turnbet makes his range polarized towards bluffs / good hands.

Does he ever cold bluff the turn like this? Because drunk guy= gambly call with strong flush draw and drunk tank then call with KK

Seems pretty spewy to me, Champstark.

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<---- I feel for ya Bware.

Does anyone have experience with using a beamer instead of a TV? In my new house it would be tremedously beneficial to have a screen come out of the ceiling, but I don't want to get stuck with crappy quality.

I don't really want to spend a ton of money either. If a beamer is not a great idea for home use I will mount my TV on a wall in a semi awkward position.

projector? the biggest problem I've experience with those is you want the room to be quite dark lighting

Friend of mine has a cinema and a bar in his house and both have beamers and quality is awesome. Sometimes we just connect the xbox in the cinema on the beemer and you can play on like 4x50" screens

Going back to like pg 18ish of this thread...talking about dating girls with bf's etc. I need some opinions on a similar spot! How should I handle a situation where I find out my "best" friend of 15yrs is trying to mack it to my lil sister behind my back? Beat down or friendly convo? Or both?

+1

I guess you should be happy that your sister is dating a decent guy instead of a biker/gangster?

That he does it behind your back could also be caused by your expected response.

Shouldn't you be happy that she chooses a guy you determine to be your best friend? I mean there is so much scum out there. I had the same with my little sister that I wouldn't allow it if she started dating until she came home with this almost nerdy kid. Supernice and sweet and he plays ping pong lol. Awesome dude and they are together now for 4 years. I was actually happy that she didn't come home with a soccer player or something.

In the US soccer player probably is a good thing.

God why do I not have a ton more money. I want so much cool **** for my new house, but all the nice couches cost 10k+. So now we will have to settle for a crappy one . Same with almost anything else.

For about 1k I will be able to buy a low end projector. Will have to hook up all my equipment in the air somehow as well, that will be hard. For 1k I can also get a 47" TV and a supernice mount allowing me to move it around a bit.

Meh. What is good in a TV? LED beats all else currently, or am I misinformed?

LED yes

if it's "only" 1k you should go led tv. I mean that beemer in cinema is like 7k+ euro.

I think it depends more on your viewing environment. I've read that LED (which are still LCD, right?) can have quite a "pop", but that can cause some eye fatigue over longer viewing. Plasma can be a more natural experience, less of a wow factor but easier to watch.

But there's probably enough difference between different manufacturer's TV's that you really need to see them, and pick the one you like most whether it is LCD / LED or plasma (I have my eye on Samsung's D8000 series plasmas).

There's always avsforum for a ton of info.

Well I bought a huge house, but my living room is not as big as a cinema.

Clicking 3 things on AVSforum confuses me. I watch TV maybe once a month - this feels like going to 2p2 for my once per year €10 homegame sit and go.

I don't really know of any place where I could watch several beamers in action. For TVs it will be easy, but not easy to find a store that exactly has the 3-4 TVs that I am interested in.

yeah, but I mean he literally has a cinema in the house. It was the headquarters of Securitas before. It's actually just kind of a castle lol :/ I think they did presentations in that room haha