What are you miserable fucks doing for Halloween?
10-01-2014 12:21 PM
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October 2014 SSNL General Chat ThreadWhat are you miserable fucks doing for Halloween? | |
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10-01-2014 05:42 PM
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Well, we're still a month out and I'm generally pretty terrible at being "festive" for Halloween. I hate October lol. That said, I had some pretty heavy shit hanging over my head for a long time that just died down so I'm starting the month with a clean slate. I have a few micros rolls going on a few different US sites and have a plan of action for the month, with goals. | |
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10-01-2014 06:18 PM
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I'm going to be sober all month which shall be fun. Planning on doing nothing for Halloween either, not exactly my favourite holiday. |
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10-01-2014 06:23 PM
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10-01-2014 06:25 PM
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I got a $40 pre-paid Visa debit card for a rebate I got on some tires a few weeks ago, and I made a deposit to Bovada with that card. They charge like a 4.9 percent vig, so I now have an account balance of $38.13. | |
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10-01-2014 06:32 PM
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10-01-2014 06:40 PM
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Is just a challenge, also a good excuse for me to avoid going pub and spending money. I've only just turned 22 and only just started working full time but I'm at a point in my life where I just want to save up some money which I think is the correct thing to do considering I don't have any money coming my way from family or savings etc. |
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10-01-2014 07:24 PM
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Regardless of the situation, but yes especially in yours, you are doing the 100% +EV thing here. Now, without writing a long story here - I definitely recognize, through personal experience, how important it is to have the party years and "do the things" before you get too old, look back, and realize you didn't do shit when you were young. That said, yeah ...by 22, you can't continue to live a lifestyle that isn't like you're still in college until you start putting together some money. And if you have any intellect and ambition whatsoever, you will be starting to grow really, really bored of that kind of life. The bars every other night, the same friends, the bullshit conversations, the ho's running around everywhere...eventually you just need something a little more tangible. | |
Last edited by BigSlickBaby; 10-01-2014 at 07:27 PM. | |
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10-01-2014 07:45 PM
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Yeah pretty much. You can start a blog thread in the operations subforum if you want your own thing that's just for what you're doing in poker for the long run (and I recommend that everyone does this), but you're welcome to link to it from here. | |
Last edited by spoonitnow; 10-01-2014 at 07:47 PM. | |
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10-01-2014 07:54 PM
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In my experience with forums over the years, this tends to be the best bet (a thread as opposed to a chat room). The chat rooms always turn out to be a bit of a clusterfuck and just aren't as accessible as the forums themselves. Let's face it - this is pretty much why chat rooms died out so much over time. | |
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10-01-2014 07:58 PM
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It worked out really well for a long time, and I think a major part of that is that poker really lends itself to the chat room format. After Black Friday, however, it just kind of died because most of the American players who were the regulars stopped playing. We would regularly have 30+ people in there each night and sometimes as many as 50 at peak times during the weekend. It got so popular that we had to split it into two channels: one for poker and one for general chat. | |
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10-01-2014 08:06 PM
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Wow, really? That's impressive. It's also sad, however...the amount of damage BF did to things. A part of me (albeit a small part of me) is kind of glad I didn't play poker at all pre BF as I would have just wound up missing it terribly all this time. At least how it is, I get to look forward to things maybe improving again down the line at some point rather than spend all of my time looking back on the "good old days". | |
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10-01-2014 08:17 PM
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Yeah it really sucks, and it definitely happened here. Things are looking up though, and it's really easy to deposit on sites like Bovada and others now for American players, so we'll have to see what happens. | |
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10-01-2014 08:27 PM
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Um, yeah...I would agree that the darkest days are over and behind us. It's still frustrating that one network can't put it all together though. It would be nice if we could have a network that was basically a combination of the best features from Bovada + WPN. Or, more to the point I guess, WPN's software and PT4/HM2 compatibility with Bovada's traffic and SNG/MTT schedule. That would be the perfect US network in my mind. | |
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10-02-2014 06:35 AM
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this debit card concept from WPN is legit awesome. pity their traffic is the nut low for america sites. | |
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10-02-2014 09:38 AM
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Anyone else have poker goals for October? | |
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10-02-2014 11:23 AM
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I've been playing 5nl zoom/rush/whateverthefuck on there the past day or so. | |
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10-02-2014 02:21 PM
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I'm playing $10NL on Bodog with breif stints of $25 that haven't gone well long enough to stick. I am playing fairly aggressive with the bankroll because I work for a living and $150 really doesn't man that much to me except that I would hate to deposit. | |
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10-02-2014 08:35 PM
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I spent the last handful of weeks studying, getting money together to buffer each of my rolls, buying and learning how to use software, and preparing for the fall here. With about 45k hands under my belt since I started at the beginning of the summer, I'm now in a position where I have everything in line to make a big push here. My goal for the month is to put in at least 20k+ hands and really start boosting my bankroll on all sites. I'm going to keep studying and working hard off the felt alongside this and preparing to start incorporating a session or two of live play into my game each month. | |
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10-04-2014 09:50 PM
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I done drank. Sorry. |
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10-05-2014 01:28 AM
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trolling freetrollers
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got my month's drinking in last night. |
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10-05-2014 01:59 PM
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10-05-2014 02:57 PM
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trolling freetrollers
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10-05-2014 04:06 PM
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1. gat | |
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10-06-2014 12:14 PM
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Any suggestions for the new BC Digest? http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerfo...st-198113.html | |
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10-06-2014 12:44 PM
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10-07-2014 07:13 AM
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trolling freetrollers
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some climber i used to chill with is in town |
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10-07-2014 11:33 AM
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I get that. | |
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10-07-2014 01:55 PM
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I didn't think they let homos in the boy scouts? | |
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10-07-2014 03:16 PM
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Kind of confused as to how you misunderstood the Boy Scout policy to this extent. The Boy Scouts themselves can be gay, straight, bisexual, transexual...it matters not. It's when it comes to the adult Scout leaders where we have requirements but those requirements actually state that the leader BE homosexual. It's if you're straight or bisexual that you are disqualified from ever being a Boy Scout leader as an adult. If you're flamingly homosexual, the Boy Scouts are actually a good fit for you when you're 35+. | |
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10-07-2014 03:58 PM
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10-07-2014 05:18 PM
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10-07-2014 09:12 PM
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10-08-2014 01:08 AM
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nh | |
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10-08-2014 09:55 AM
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ty | |
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10-08-2014 05:08 PM
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Winning Poker Network Game #322634519: No Limit Holdem ($0.10/$0.25) [2014/10/08 20:21:10 UTC] | |
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10-10-2014 01:51 PM
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Hating on America probably, it's what I usually do at this time of the year because you dumb fucks go crazy for this shit. | |
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10-10-2014 02:05 PM
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Haha. I live in the northeast US and even here there are housewives running around petrified that they or their kid is going to contract ebola. I love it. | |
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10-10-2014 02:21 PM
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One problem with Hallowe'en here is that we have a better festival just after... Guy Fawkes Night on the 5th November. It's basically when we set off a shit load of fireworks and have huge bonfires to celebrate an attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament in the 1500's or whenever. Lemme check... pfft 1605, close but not close enough. I suck at English history. But yeah, fires and pretty explosions are way better than witch costumes. | |
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10-10-2014 02:41 PM
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10-10-2014 02:45 PM
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Sorry, that was insensetive of me. I'll rephrase. | |
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10-10-2014 02:58 PM
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I'm just too lazy to find an "obvious troll" gif. | |
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10-10-2014 03:37 PM
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It's half trolling. The language is deliberately strong for shock effect because I'm immature. But there's a valid point there. It's not a matter of racism, it's a matter of economics and prosperity. How well educated do you suppose the average Liberian is compared to the average American or Brit? A lot of these people blame voodoo or witches when people get sick, because they don't understand what's actually going on. That means they are much more prone to panic, or at least they're prone to a more dangerous kind of panic. We're more likely to stockpile medicines that are rumoured to help, and obsessively wash our hands after doing everything. They're more likely to jump in the Atlantic and swim for America, or lynch suspected witches. Fear is a powerful emotion, more so if you don't understand what's driving that fear. | |
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10-10-2014 06:32 PM
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I've had friends from Europe over the years from school and being in Manhattan who have told me about Guy Fawkes Night. It always sounded pretty cool, especially compared to Halloween. As said, Halloween is definitely my most hated holiday of the year but I also do have some pretty horrible memories from early in life that took place around this time of year. At this point it's not really October that I hate...just Halloween. | |
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10-12-2014 10:48 AM
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Ebola sucks for the people who catch it, no doubt about that, but the way it's being hyped up as this shit in the media is hilarious to me because it's so transparent but yet works so well. | |
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10-12-2014 06:29 PM
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Might be worth taking a punt on GSK. Doubt they're throwing too much cost into developing a vaccine though given not many people are dying from ebola and the ones that are live in Africa (and therefore not much profit to be had). | |
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10-12-2014 06:33 PM
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I'm not up-to-date on good NLHE books written in the past year or two - can anybody recommend one? FWIW, I like books with plenty of hand examples illustrating the key points, rather than those with more theoretical content. | |
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10-13-2014 09:33 AM
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10-14-2014 12:12 PM
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So how is everyone's bankroll doing this month? I had posted in this thread before the month started that I was just gearing up to start putting in some heavy, heavy volume this fall and winter. I got a little delayed in that plan as a few loose ends came up in life that I wanted to tie up and sort out before I turned my full attention to poker. It just would have been a distraction in the back of my mind otherwise. I spent the last couple of weeks continuing to study extremely hard and get myself in the right mindset for this. At this point, life has settled down and I have all the time in the world. I'm going to start playing today and tonight and go from there. I'll be posting hands and contributing to discussions here on FTR throughout the rest of the month, and into next month, too. | |
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10-15-2014 03:58 AM
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trolling freetrollers
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10-17-2014 02:57 PM
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Played a bit last night and am going to play all this afternoon and tonight. Felt absolutely great at the tables. I was happy about two things: 1) How much my study over the last couple of months has really paid off. My understanding of the game is way, way beyond my competition here at the nanostakes right now. 2) I was thrilled about how overly critical I was of my play post session. In a winning session, I saw about three plays I made that in all reality weren't that bad and cost me peanuts but I still cringed since in retrospect they looked like obvious mistakes to me. I like that I'm looking at my game that way right now. | |
Last edited by BigSlickBaby; 10-17-2014 at 03:00 PM. | |
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10-17-2014 03:21 PM
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You probably want to raise pre w/A4s in the SB vs a BTN flat becuase at 4nl they'll just be awful. |
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10-17-2014 04:10 PM
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Agree with raising 3x pre. That's what I would have done differently in the hand. As for betting the flop, villain is extremely passive and has a tendency to fold to a ton of cbets on the flop. I thought there was a chance he might have just folded out here and with bottom pair, I was more than happy to see the turn with .16 more in the pot. | |
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10-17-2014 06:06 PM
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10-17-2014 06:50 PM
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10-17-2014 06:53 PM
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10-21-2014 11:17 PM
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{{ Moved posted hand to http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerfo...do-198211.html }} | |
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10-22-2014 01:15 AM
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10-22-2014 07:50 AM
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np | |
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10-23-2014 11:35 PM
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Hey could you guys offer your feedback on my strategy column this week? It's on AK missing on the flop in 3-bet pots, and it's geared more towards beginning-intermediate players. | |
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10-24-2014 05:05 AM
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10-24-2014 04:48 PM
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10-26-2014 05:22 PM
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10-28-2014 01:26 PM
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I'm alright. Still getting nowhere with my big aspirations, but hey, if it were easy, then everyone would do it. | |
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10-28-2014 03:05 PM
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trolling freetrollers
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should help people understand how to think more about poker. Nice and simple stuff, and nothing prescriptive or formulaic. nh. |
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10-29-2014 06:02 PM
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Thanks. | |
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10-29-2014 06:40 PM
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Front porch, handing out candy, telling my dog to stop barking so damn much. | |
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10-29-2014 11:47 PM
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Hahaha I keep my porch light off which is the international sign of don't let your fucking kids on my porch. | |
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10-30-2014 04:14 AM
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trolling freetrollers
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10-30-2014 07:38 PM
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Back playing 5nl with a bankroll of $200 transferred from iPoker. No idea what I'm doing anymore, pre-flop is all over the place (running 31/24 with 12% 3bet) and FPS is reigning supreme. The Stars doomswitch hasn't reset itself yet either. | |
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10-31-2014 08:59 AM
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GIT R DONE | |
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10-31-2014 05:26 PM
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Ran hotter than the sun at 5nl Zoom this afternoon: | |
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11-01-2014 12:46 AM
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Had a totally shit day at work, then went to the casino and had a hilariously bad run. Overpair < TPTK all-in on the flop; Aces up < TPMK; two pair loses a flip against combo draw all-in on the flop; set runs into flopped flush (that was <$200 pot though). | |
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11-01-2014 02:06 PM
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{{Locked}} | |
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