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03-09-2005, 07:54 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
Someone hold a gun to your head and force you to go to law school?

Maybe not, but I've heard there are serious consequences if you don't pay the vig on the loans . . .

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 03-09-2005, 07:56 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
So what you're saying is that you're a tool for the man?

No. La femme.

ltl/fb · 03-09-2005, 07:56 PM

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Originally posted by ironweed
Maybe not, but I've heard there are serious consequences if you don't pay the vig on the loans . . .

Not like if you don't pay over employment/withholding taxes. Whooooooooo boy, that will come back and bite you in the ass.

Shape Shifter · 03-09-2005, 07:56 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
I do, it's a boy. I think he'll be a junk-balling lefty, kind of a back-of-the-rotation guy. Kick around the bigs for six or seven years, then go into broadcasting. Like John Cerutti, without the suicide.

Well congrats on the impending arrival of little GoldenPalace.com. Have any Canadians ever made the majors?

mmm3587 · 03-09-2005, 07:57 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
So despite the fact that my family didn't put me through school (I'm not saying yours did ltl/fb, but odds are that several regulars here fit that bill)...

Several regulars? Really? We've got upper class types here? Who the fuck wants to be a lawyer if they have parents footing at least $100k worth of tuition/fees/living expenses? Go to grad school and study English like the rest of the richies.

mmm3587 · 03-09-2005, 07:58 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere
Hold on there bucko.
Someone hold a gun to your head and force you to ....[g]et pregnant?

Hey, we've all got our fetishes.

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 03-09-2005, 07:59 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Well congrats on the impending arrival of little GoldenPalace.com. Have any Canadians ever made the majors?

Eric Gagne.

mmm3587 · 03-09-2005, 08:00 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
What the fuck is wrong with H&M? I just wish we had one in LA, and that they had more shit that fit me. Their quality/price ratio is very attractive for this in-house studio lawyer.

H&M in Europe kicks ass. I still have good stuff from there, and I haven't lived in Europe since before law school.

H&M in the US sucks. When I went in there, all they had was shiny club kid shit. Guess that's the dress code for an in-house studio lawyer.

ltl/fb · 03-09-2005, 08:02 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
The big firm route was palatable for three years. After that, it was less so, particularly when other opportunties presented themselves.

Yeah, like the opportunity to dress for shit. Where the hell are your priorities????

(Um, I dress for shit and could probably happily make what I do now (adjusted for inflation, of course) for the rest of my life, so I"m not really one to talk -- you just seem a little more image conscious. Maybe it's 'cos you're in LA and you can't help yourself. Though New Haven isn't really a fashion capital -- didn't you go to Yale or something??)

nfh, Coltrane is a tool for the prancy kitty, not the man.

mmm3587 · 03-09-2005, 08:05 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
...though you'll have to have deep pockets to outbid GoldenPalace.com.

Speaking of GoldenPalace.com, I think it's rigged.

In addition to not hitting out hands right (for example, the dealer will let you play out, including doubling and splitting, hands where the dealer has blackjack), they use a continuous shuffle, and I've lost big there (play money only, I think playing real money online table games is an incredibly bad idea) quickly, something like 40 losses out of 50, which is extremely unlikely playing basic strategy, even with bad luck on a continuous shuffle. It also pulled a BUNCH of blackjacks and 21s in that stretch.

notcasesensitive · 03-09-2005, 08:07 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Can we have a "Name str8's offspring" contest?

I've always favored the name Keg, but for str8's child I'd go with either Halfpint or Molson.

Shape Shifter · 03-09-2005, 08:09 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Eric Gagne.

That's it?

Shape Shifter · 03-09-2005, 08:11 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I've always favored the name Keg, but for str8's child I'd go with either Halfpint or Molson.

Hopefully Molson will do a little less speechifying now that they're owned by the US.

str8outavannuys · 03-09-2005, 08:18 PM

Here's my explanation.

Last night I was playing 9-18 at Commerce Casino. I was up a rack or so ($300) playing super-tight aggressive for a few hours, when the following happened.

I limp in with A-4 suited (bad, I know, but I'd been getting no cards; I got 3 pocket pairs, all lower than 8-8, in 5 hours). Pot is raised by Mr. super aggressive who was up a few racks. Lots of limpers, I call.

FLop comes Q-6-4, rainbow. Checked to the raiser, he bets, I call. Down to 3 players. Turn comes a 6. Checked to the raiser. He bets. I check-raise. He calls. Other guy folds

River comes a 10. I bet, he calls. With pocket 5s.

Three hands later, I pick up A-K under the gun. Aggressive guy raises. I three-bet, and somebody else caps it. Flop comes K-J-6, again rainbow. I bet, aggressive raises. I three bet, he caps. Four players in the hand.

Turn comes a 2. I check to Mr. Aggressive. He bets, I call, as does everyone else. Huge pot now.

River comes a Q. Check, Aggressive bets, I call. He shows A-10.

Boom, there goes my $300 in profit in two hands. We both left the table soon after, in very different frames of mind.

spookyfish · 03-09-2005, 08:29 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Here's my explanation.

Last night I was playing 9-18 at Commerce Casino. I was up a rack or so ($300) playing super-tight aggressive for a few hours, when the following happened.

I limp in with A-4 suited (bad, I know, but I'd been getting no cards; I got 3 pocket pairs, all lower than 8-8, in 5 hours). Pot is raised by Mr. super aggressive who was up a few racks. Lots of limpers, I call.

FLop comes Q-6-4, rainbow. Checked to the raiser, he bets, I call. Down to 3 players. Turn comes a 6. Checked to the raiser. He bets. I check-raise. He calls. Other guy folds

River comes a 10. I bet, he calls. With pocket 5s.

Three hands later, I pick up A-K under the gun. Aggressive guy raises. I three-bet, and somebody else caps it. Flop comes K-J-6, again rainbow. I bet, aggressive raises. I three bet, he caps. Four players in the hand.

Turn comes a 2. I check to Mr. Aggressive. He bets, I call, as does everyone else. Huge pot now.

River comes a Q. Check, Aggressive bets, I call. He shows A-10.

Boom, there goes my $300 in profit in two hands. We both left the table soon after, in very different frames of mind.

Wait. You have a huge motherjumpin' mortgage, a kid on the way, enormous LS debt from Yale, no less, and you're trying to pay all of this on an in-house-studio-lawyer's salary.

That's not enough gambling for you already?