How do you cast with a front drag spinning reel?

This could hurt. Andy Bloch made a bet against Ivey winning the WSOP main event. No mention of the amount.

Today's TDF stage was 224 km, the winner finished it in 6 hours 11 minutes. That's 139 miles. With an elevation gain of over a mile (that's just the delta from start to finish, not the total elevation gain). 23+ mph, uphill almost the whole way for 139 miles. Jebus.

It seems like at the last few BARGEs people have come into the community from other venues than rec.gambling, either through Live Journal, as friends of BARGErs, or just hearing about the mailing list and getting on that. I was never a very active member of rec.gambling or rec.gambling.poker, although I lurked on and off for years even before ( Read more... )

Man maps out drinking session.

I need evwhore's Onion avatar.

I couldn't make out any funnels, but apparently they were in there. We had yet another tornado warning this afternoon. That's six or seven days in a row. For you folks on the coasts who don't get tornadoes, a warning means that they've actually been sighted, whereas a tornado watch means that they are likely. This was on my drive from the ( Read more... )

Friday morning before TARGET, I caught up with Russ and we played some $1-2nl at the Venetian. A couple of orbits in, I was utg and Russ was small blind. I raised to $6. Folded to Russ who reraised to $15 or $18, I don't remember. I called. Flop was 456r. Russ bet $20ish I think. I call. Turn is a K. Russ checked, I bet and won the pot.

( what were the hands and some thoughts )

We broke the record high temperature today, hitting 90. We've now set four record high temps in 2009 already.

January 21st
March 4th
March 2nd
May 19th

Some cool volcano pics.

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