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02/20/09 at 12:01 PM

pete when you're done we need a solid review of that hand at a time book by pearljammed and the two other internet pros that you're reading.

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02/20/09 at 02:03 PM

It's really good so far. It really takes you thru the thought process of figuring out a hand from start to finish from the point of view of established online/live champions. It only covers early to mid-late tourneys though. They are coming out with a second volume that covers bubble to heads up play.

The one I have is called "Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time" By..

Eric "Rizen" Lynch
Jon "Apestyles" Van Fleet
Jon "Pearljammer" Turner

By the way, Lost was awesome this week. I want one of those giant pendulums in my crib.
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02/20/09 at 02:10 PM

totally badass episode of lost. i should make a no lost talk at the game rule and open a lost thread on here. it bores the table to an insane degree, but some of us need to talk about it! it'd be fun to eat some cakes and watch the pendulum for three or four hours...

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02/20/09 at 02:12 PM

I want to know where Ben went that he showed up all fucked up.
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02/20/09 at 02:23 PM

there's no doubt in my mind that the hispanic guy that hurley told to buckle up and was also at the airport when jack was talking about locke's body is a ben plant. he'll be a scared passenger that landed with them for a while but then we'll get a big reveal on his true nature.

i'm somewhat thinking sayid did that to ben. just the look they exchanged as ben got on the plane? seems like it. i wanna know how the hell hurley got there. something nefarious going on. think maybe widmore got to him like 'hey if you really want to beat ben linus you'll go to the island and do this for me..."??

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02/20/09 at 03:24 PM

And when the hell did Hurley learn how to play a guitar?
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02/20/09 at 03:38 PM

or... what's in the guitar case??? sniper rifle? twinkies? it could be anything.

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02/20/09 at 03:40 PM

only pete and other lost fans should even bother to read this. credit to visco's ladyfriend steff.

How to Make a Peanut Butter Sandwich, by the Losties

Jack
1. Gather ingredients
2. Point gun at ingredients and shout "HOW DO I MAKE A SANDWICH OUT OF YOU?!?!?"
3. Breathe heavily through your nose as though you were about to hit ingredients
4. Give up and make the sandwich yourself, and eat it bitterly

Kate
1. Make separate sandwiches, one with peanut butter and one with jelly
2. Take a bite of the peanut butter sandwich, declaring it the best
3. Take a bite of the jelly sandwich, declaring it the best
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 ad infinitum
5. Follow peanut butter or jelly sandwich into grave danger

Sawyer
1. Throw the jar of jelly at wall, sneering "I don't need no sandwich"
2. Call the mascot on the jar of peanut butter lots of clever nicknames
3. Huff and puff and stomp around and grumble a lot
4. When no one's looking, make perfect, even, symmetrical peanut butter and jelly sandwich and sit in a corner, enjoying every bite

Locke
1. Sit idly by, believing that the ingredients will find a way to make a sandwich out of themselves
2. Lose faith and make the sandwich anyway
3. Realize that you were the instrument by which the ingredients chose to make a sandwich after all
4. Run around the room and grab everyone's knives, insisting that their sandwiches will do the same in time

Hurley
1. Make sandwich
2. Eat sandwich
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 ad infinitum

Sayid
1. Procure 23 milligrams of uranium-20
2. Set hadron supercollider to eight megajoules
3. Program a sandwich-making macro using Cobol or Visual Basic
4. Act all tough-like

Desmond
1. Eat sandwich
2. Call the sandwich "brother"
3. Place peanut butter slice over jelly slice
4. Spread jelly on the other slice
5. Spread peanut butter on one slice
6. Take two slices of bread, a jar of peanut butter and a jar of jelly

Ben
1. Steal someone else's sandwich
2. Claim you coerced them into making the sandwich for you all along
3. Say you'll tell them everything if they make you another sandwich
4. Stare at them all creepy-like

Libby
1. Lay out plans for one of the most intricate, fascinating, and delicious sandwiches of all time
2. Just as you start making it, get shot

Danielle
1. Apply peanut butter
2. Disappear for eight months
3. Apply jelly
4. Disappear for eight months
5. Eat sandwich

Claire
1. Mmmmmmm, peanut butter

Darlton
1. Make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
2. Have someone take a bite, then tell them it's a baloney sandwich
3. Make up a whole bunch of other *beep* then say you had planned it all along
4. Buy a few yachts

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02/20/09 at 04:33 PM

Charlie

1. Obtain peanut butter (Peanut butter is code for heroin)
2. Spread on bread (Bread is code for glass crack pipe)
3. Add Jelly (Jelly is code for fire)
4. Enjoy Sandwich.
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02/20/09 at 05:50 PM

#10

I'm assuming you don't mean Charlie the Rabbit, but it's kind of funny anyway.

How about ...

Evan:
1) Threaten not to show up because it's sooooo cold
2) Talk about how Manny Ramirez doesn't play hard and you wouldn't take him for free
3) Eat peanut butter and jelly
4) Bust out early

Dave:
1) Make peanut butter and jelly sandwich
2) Put way too much hash in it
3) Enjoy life

Jordan:
1) Make weird sounds and facial expressions
2) Talk about how you need sexy cards
3) Order your vehicle to make your peanut butter and jelly sandwich for you

Rob:
3) Consider making peanut butter and jelly sandwich
1) Sit there for eight minutes shuffling cards
4) Ask whether it's your turn to act
2) Tell more alien stories

JP:
1) Drink eight beers at the bar before leaving for poker
2) Drink two beers at dinner
3) Drink two 40s during the game
4) Be late for work the next day

Charlie:
1) Ruminate philosophically about bad luck
2) Ask Jen to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
3) Lose to the nuts
4) Break something

Visco:
1) Ruminate philosophically about bad luck
2) Ruminate on some of the previously neglected permutations of bad luck
3) Ruminate on some aspects of bad luck you've thought about before, just not recently
4) Marvel at how close you came to not winning

Rhett:
1) Make horrible jokes
2) Make stupid movie references
3) Eat a creamy peanut butter sandwich on white bread with no jelly while laughing at some boring stuff
4) Meditate

Lou:
1) Propose a fantasy trade
2) Counter-counter-offer the counter-offer
3) Counter-counter-counter-counter-offer the counter-counter-offer
4) Change diapers

Brian's Pugnacious Brother:
1) Eat peanut butter
2) Take steroids
3) Fight crowds

Paul:
1) Speak in a phony Jamaican accent
2) Have a big peanut butter and jelly party at a club in Vegas with numerous 20-something honeys
3) Do drugs
4) Get married

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02/20/09 at 05:53 PM

#11

Jarrett:
1) Make 80s pop-culture references
2) Re-buy
3) Eat peanut butter and jelly
4) Re-buy again

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02/20/09 at 06:16 PM

#12

The Charlie I was talking about was from Lost, not West New York.
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02/20/09 at 08:20 PM

#13

nice clarification pete.

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02/21/09 at 01:17 AM