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C-Man

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  1. Sen Ladybugs flip-flops on Hegseth https://apple.news/AVFP5ie2GTdaIVJrfbfyGdQ
  2. Next door neighbors have a Dreame L10S and love it. Wife has been wanting one so I got a good Black Friday deal for $399 or so. We haven’t fired it up yet.
  3. That’s where I was leaning. This settles it.
  4. Kash Patel likes the booger sugar like Jr? https://www.threads.net/@ronaldfilipkowski/post/DDKJPjNxw1U?xmt=AQGzvwZ4FvwD0_jpzVyfcMvWrdJPV_yL3Xwx-5LJmfYjqg
  5. Now I'm reading that Thompson and his wife were separated and perhaps have been for quite some time.
  6. Well, now we know for sure he wasn't acting alone. I'm not sure anyone has ever looked hotter in the history of the world than Salma Hayek did in that scene in From Dusk 'Til Dawn.
  7. Right. Not the same backpack, not the same jacket, not the same e-bike.
  8. C-Man

    Dallas | Burgers

    I get it. We used to go a lot. Like a whole lot. The burger is great and so are the fish tacos (which are more like wraps). I love the French chicken. Happy Hour martini/oyster deal is tough to beat too. But I'm kind of steering clear of Hunter Pond places these days. My understanding is that he's a gigantic piece of shit.
  9. A big problem with Biden is that he was never the most effective communicator in his best days and in his advanced age, he's even worse. I don't think he's senile but he sure as fuck looks and sounds like from time to time. They couldn't put him out there in front of the media to spout off his accomplishments because he could no longer effectively do that.
  10. So, I wasn't quite sure how it would shake out or what had been decided upon before showing up last night. We didn't play a tournament, which was a relief to me. Look, I'm an insurance guy -- I have an inherent instinct to mitigate large losses. The idea of likely being out $300-$600 or walking away with a one-in-7 chance of $3000 or so is not the pool I usually swim in. (Not to mention a few of these guys are borderline degenerate gamblers -- they were betting on first halves of the ACC-SEC Challenge while we played card.) Anyway, we had a finite time because the dealer was "on the clock" from 8-midnight. So the deal was, initial buy-in for $300 with the opportunity for another buyback if you busted out before the end of the night. I had an extra $100 with me but hoped to not get to that point so I played very conservatively. I don't need to be losing $600/night in a monthly card game -- that shit's not fun to me. I also was unaware how "experienced" the table is/was. I haven't played in several years so maybe I'm the patsy at the table. So my plan was to play some, have a good time, not chase things and try to get out of there with something close to what I started with. I didn't get very good cards for the first couple of hours. I chased a couple "inexpensive" pots and didn't win any and I was the last of the seven at the table to finally win a hand. Two guys won at the beginning but busted out a couple hours in -- and bought back in at $300. I'd already decided I was only buying back in at $100 more -- if at all. Hell, at that point I planned to sit back and sip Blanton's or E.H. Taylor and watch the rest of them take each other's money. Good buddy had a large stack early, lost it all and then threw another $150 on the table at 11:45. He was pretty soused at that point and was chasing a last-minute miracle. I wasn't going to indulge that and let him lose it to somebody else because ... At any rate, I won a small hand or two about halfway through but was still a little underwater before hitting on a big pot that I slow-played. I had a suited pair on the draw and got two more diamonds on the flop. Like I said, the pot wasn't huge but it was a decent payout and everybody folded but me and my good buddy above, who as I said was up big early. Fuck it, let's see this one through. I checked and damned if another diamond didn't come out on the turn. So I raised a modest amount. My buddy had a good hand -- can't remember what he wound up with but do remember I could've been boned on the river. Luckily, the last card did nothing for either of us. That pot made the night for me. I won a few more as we were down to five players by the end. The guy who came in saying he knew next-to-nothing about Hold 'Em hit some big ones early and was the big winner on the night, which infuriated (in a funny way) the guy to my immediate left (he lost $600 total). He was playing everything 100% right but couldn't get the cards to work in his favor. He finally went out on his buyback with KK on the draw. (He lost to AA draw. That was a fun hand to watch play out.) The inexperienced guy was in big on a pot and threw his cards on the table thinking he'd lost since he didn't hit his flush draw (but had a straight or something). I think he cashed out for nearly $1200 at midnight. (He had way more than that at one point.) I cashed out for $640 total so a $340 profit on the night. Sounds like this will be an every-other-month game, maybe once per quarter.
  11. Have watched first two now. I'm enjoying it.
  12. I’m on the bubble as far as making playoffs and need to decide between Darnold and Tua at QB. Any thoughts?
  13. https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/DDKoF4YAzKY?xmt=AQGzNq1X7xi2N16tUrNty9r7gSgnGe-AI9-Gjeh2U6V4og
  14. So, I've played "friendly" Hold 'Em games over the years but it's been awhile and I'm definitely rusty. We are starting a monthly neighborhood game tonight with eight regulars. We've got a professional dealer run the game. Buy-in is $300 with a one re-buy for $100 or something along those lines. Been bumping around the Internet the last week reading a few things with regard to strategy, etc. My understanding is that nobody is super serious -- it's just an excuse to get together once a month, knock back a few beverages and play cards with buddies. Anybody got some good online resources to help 'bone up' my skills headed into tonight's game? I actually found a pretty good little article in Golf Magazine or Golf Digest written by a guy that got into online poker during COVID. Some pretty sound ideas in that one, I thought.
  15. Not Photoshopped. My wife took the photo herself.
  16. Bill Maher Says ‘I May Quit’ HBO’s ‘Real Time’ Because ‘I Don’t Want to Do’ More Donald Trump Coverage https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/bill-maher-might-quit-real-time-donald-trump-jokes-1236234331/
  17. Had no idea the lead singer(Tunde Adibempe) of TV on the Radio was an actor. He plays the main kid’s dad in this. Colin Farrell’s sister from Banshees of Inisheran is too. I love her.
  18. Stupid ass Rogan said the reason he endorsed Trump at the last minute due to concerns about Tim Walz’s honesty. Yes, that’s what that stupid meat head said. https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-rogan-says-he-endorsed-trump-due-to-concerns-about-tim-walzs-honesty/
  19. Just coming here to post that news.
  20. My wife was behind this nutbar in Addison today.
  21. Diabolical For those of you who haven't been it is much more remote than the National Park, or at least it was last time I was out there. Beautiful desolation Looks like the bluff that Josh Brolin/Llewellyn Moss looked down on the drug deal gone bad in No Country for Old Men.
  22. Fuck this cocksmoker
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