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sthief09
02-23-2005, 08:15 AM
evan, are you going to vegas?
I'll go. Figure out travel methods and let me know.
EDIT: GoT also said he would go a few days ago. I think Dave is going straight there, which I will not be doing.
sthief09
02-23-2005, 08:18 AM
dave wants to go to vegas first, which makes things difficult. maybe I'll get a rental car and we'll drive there? how much are rental cars?
GuyOnTilt
02-23-2005, 08:19 AM
maybe I'll get a rental car and we'll drive there? how much are rental cars?
Probably quite a bit if you're driving to LV and back. I don't think you want to put that many miles on it. If you want to hold off on it for a day or so, I can drive.
GoT
sthief09
02-23-2005, 08:20 AM
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maybe I'll get a rental car and we'll drive there? how much are rental cars?
Probably quite a bit if you're driving to LV and back. I don't think you want to put that many miles on it. If you want to hold off on it for a day or so, I can drive.
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yeah that would be cool. flights are cheap too. I'll see if I can get dave to fly to cali first
Hold off from what? Have we decided when we're going?
sthief09
02-23-2005, 08:23 AM
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go on AIM express
When I lived in the Bay Area flights between Vegas/SF/LA were routinely $80-120 roundtrip.
GoT said we can drive in like 3 hours. Seems like a pretty doable drive.
bakku
02-23-2005, 09:19 AM
I'll probably try and make it out to LA on one of the weekends though it'll be right around the time of my finals.
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When I lived in the Bay Area flights between Vegas/SF/LA were routinely $80-120 roundtrip.
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They're about $100 now (after tax and security fees) on southwest if you order 14 days in advanced.
bakku
02-23-2005, 09:21 AM
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GoT said we can drive in like 3 hours. Seems like a pretty doable drive.
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I assume GoT already knows this but if you leave on a weekday leave at night after dinner.
OMG, I'm totally playing Mexican Poker, whatever the fcuk that is.
sthief09
02-23-2005, 11:45 AM
mexican stud? it's a variation of 5 card stud. you get dealt 2 down cards. you pick one to turn face up. betting round. you get dealt another down card. you pick one to turn up. betting round, etc until you're dealt a 5th card. there's a lot of deception involved.
If there's a home game it absolutely has to be rotation and must include Triple Draw.
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HOW TO PLAY Mexican poker is played with a 41-card deck. The 8's, 9's and 10's are removed and a joker is added. If the joker is received as an up card it may be used as an ace or to complete a straight or flush. If the joker is received as a down card it is wild. The cards are dealt clockwise; beginning left of the dealer button. The dealer button rotates clockwise after each hand is complete. Each player will receive two cards on the initial deal, one face up, and the other face down. After each betting round is complete, players may expose their down card and receive their next card face down. A Mexican poker hand is composed of a total of 5 cards. The player with the highest hand wins the pot. GAME RULES The player may expose their down card and receive the next card face down. This action must be complete prior to the deal of the next card, which may be dealt up or down depending on whether or not the previous card was opened. A Joker received as a down card and later exposed by the player remains as a wild card.
a) Five of a Kind
b) Royal Flush
c) Straight Flush
d) Four of a Kind
e) Flush
f) Full House
g) Straight
h) Three of a Kind
i) Two Pairs
j) One Pair
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Does anyone know what limits they spread of the rando games (draw, razz, etc.)?
scrub
02-23-2005, 01:14 PM
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I'll go. Figure out travel methods and let me know.
EDIT: GoT also said he would go a few days ago. I think Dave is going straight there, which I will not be doing.
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Ok--I need a recap. What days are people going to be in Vegas/LA/Bay Area?
My younger sister is visiting me from the 5th to the 12th. I was planning on booking a flight to LA on the 13th after I figured out where I was going to crash. If we're going to Vegas, stuff gets more complicated for me, so I'll have to start setting crap up today.
scrub
ugh, i forgot about your sister. I don't know (see no one knows) exactly what we're doing. I am pretty sure that Josh and I are flying into Ontario on the night of the 10th and that Dave is probably going to Vegas first. I'll give you a call if anything not insignificant arises.
BottlesOf
02-23-2005, 01:37 PM
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I am pretty sure that Josh and I are flying into Ontario on the night of the 10th
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WTF?
Also, are you aware of the geographic area eoncpmassed by Ontario? "Josh and I will be flying into Eastern hemisphere, south of the Tropic of Cancer....."
BottlesOf
02-23-2005, 01:38 PM
If it doesn't involve migrant workers, I'm not interested.
I'm probably booking today and so far my plan is to/from NY/Vegas and separately fly from Vegas to LA sometime during the week.
johnfromvirginia
02-23-2005, 01:45 PM
don't you guys have e-mail?
nolanfan34
02-23-2005, 01:46 PM
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don't you guys have e-mail?
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Ha ha ha ha....
That needed to be said.
scrub
02-23-2005, 02:06 PM
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don't you guys have e-mail?
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I tried talking to a few of these guys individually, and got told that the gathering was happening in 3 different cities... /images/graemlins/smile.gif
scrub
sthief09
02-23-2005, 02:07 PM
Ontario is a city in California
BottlesOf
02-23-2005, 02:26 PM
Well, I just got pwned.
shant
02-23-2005, 02:36 PM
You guys can get a rental car for like $50/day(insurance included) and drive to Vegas. It's about a 4 hour drive, can be done in less if you are aggressive/speed.
Last time I tried to get tickets to Vegas for April, the cheapest I found was $130 for roundtrip.
BottlesOf
02-23-2005, 02:38 PM
Don't you need to be over 25 for renting cars at reasonable rates? Don't forget to account for gas costs, and giving it back to them with a full tank.
Justin A
02-23-2005, 02:40 PM
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GoT said we can drive in like 3 hours. Seems like a pretty doable drive.
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I assume GoT already knows this but if you leave on a weekday leave at night after dinner.
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It doesn't actually matter as much given where GoT lives. He's not in the thick of LA, he's out in Azusa.
shant
02-23-2005, 02:55 PM
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Don't you need to be over 25 for renting cars at reasonable rates? Don't forget to account for gas costs, and giving it back to them with a full tank.
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Some places rent to 21 and older, some don't even charge extra because you're 21. If you guys were renting out of LA I can refer you to some places I've rented at for good rates and the lady didn't care that we were 22 or whatever.
Also, if you've got 3or 4 guys in the rental car splitting gas and the cost of the rental, this is way cheaper than flying.
I'll be flying into LA on Friday night (3/11) and flying out of LAX on 3/20. Vegas when? Drive/fly/wha?
Ugh, way to follow along and make everything more difficult. I think the current "plan" is to drive there a couple days after we get in. How does going on Monday (14th) sound?
Michael Davis
02-23-2005, 04:50 PM
For this home game, why don't we just use straight cash, homey?
-Michael
nolanfan34
02-23-2005, 06:34 PM
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For this home game, why don't we just use straight cash, homey?
-Michael
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Finally, some sense in this thread.
I can't decide what's funnier, the thought of all of you buying and smuggling racks of chips out of Commerce, or the fact that you have to smuggle them back INTO the casino to cash them out...
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I can't decide what's funnier, the thought of all of you buying and smuggling racks of chips out of Commerce, or the fact that you have to smuggle them back INTO the casino to cash them out...
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To bring them back, I would make a small basket using the front of a tee-shirt I'm wearing and carry them in, sans racks.
nolanfan34
02-23-2005, 06:48 PM
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I can't decide what's funnier, the thought of all of you buying and smuggling racks of chips out of Commerce, or the fact that you have to smuggle them back INTO the casino to cash them out...
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To bring them back, I would make a small basket using the front of a tee-shirt I'm wearing and carry them in, sans racks.
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That would work too! /images/graemlins/laugh.gif
GoT should just get on the ball and drop 5 BB's to get 1,000 Nexgens before you guys get there. I just got some, they're pretty sweet for an inexpensive chip...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v637/nolanfan34/Pokerchipscoug.jpg
Or you should just stop being lame and come.
nolanfan34
02-23-2005, 07:01 PM
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Some people have these things called "jobs". Now, I don't expect you to understand this. But someday, if you don't flunk out of school, you'll know what I mean.
(We're in our busy time of the year here...I have to work the weekend of the 12-13, so I'll probably be at work every day for about 12 days straight or so. No travelling until Vegas hopefully in mid-June, and I hope some 2+2ers will be able to make it out there then.
You guys don't want a 28-year-old nit like me there anyway, just ask The Dude and GoT.)
stabn
02-23-2005, 07:04 PM
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Or you should just stop being lame and come.
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You guys don't want a 28-year-old nit like me there anyway, just ask The Dude and GoT.)
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Total inability to straddle or restraddle. Also, bet into me on the river when he knew i'd check behind after he made his straight:(.
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Some people have these things called "jobs". Now, I don't expect you to understand this. But someday, if you don't flunk out of school, you'll know what I mean.
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I have a job, but for a week I'm putting my job where Evan stuffs his declawed gerbils.
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You guys don't want a 28-year-old nit like me there anyway, just ask The Dude and GoT.
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It'll be hard for them to talk while they're swapping saliva.
shant
02-23-2005, 07:21 PM
Yeah I was thinking about this last night. I figured it'd be pretty easy to get at least 5 racks a trip out of their in a backpack. Getting them back in and cashing-out of a backpack would be harder.
Really? What do you think they'd do if you walked in carrying 10 racks of chips and cashed them in?
I think they may look at you like you are retarded, but they will surely pay you and take their chips.
Michael Davis
02-23-2005, 07:42 PM
Yeah, after they do a thorough inspection of them. Or they might not but they would if you brought in black. Seriously, if you were going to counterfeit chips, $1s would be the way to go.
-Michael
GuyOnTilt
02-23-2005, 07:59 PM
Yeah, after they do a thorough inspection of them. Or they might not but they would if you brought in black. Seriously, if you were going to counterfeit chips, $1s would be the way to go.
I carry chips larger than $100 out of Commerce all the time, as I'm sure a lot of others do as well. It's not uncommon. It's easier to transport $10k worth of large chips than $10k worth of bills. It's not like it's strictly against the rules or anything. They just might not like us taking that many from them plus the racks. The other week at the Mirage, we took like 5 racks up to our room for a home game, and then a few days later we took 4 racks up to Tommy's room for another game. It's a little different since we didn't have to walk out the valet entrance or anything, but still it's not that big a deal.
GoT
GuyOnTilt
02-23-2005, 08:04 PM
GoT should just get on the ball and drop 5 BB's to get 1,000 Nexgens before you guys get there. I just got some, they're pretty sweet for an inexpensive chip...
Some of us don't have these things called "jobs" that afford us a steady stream of income and the ability to just spend willy nilly as we please. Now, I don't expect you to under this. But someday, if you ever piss of the man, you'll know what I mean.
GoT
nolanfan34
02-23-2005, 08:07 PM
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the ability to spend willy nilly as we please.
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Ha ha ha...this would be more of a burn if it wasn't coming from the guy who spends $200 on a pair of jeans or whatever. /images/graemlins/blush.gif
Or $100 on connect 4 lessons.
nolanfan34
02-23-2005, 08:16 PM
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Yeah, that's a better example.
Don't let him win it back playing you in mini-golf.
GuyOnTilt
02-23-2005, 08:26 PM
Don't let him win it back playing you in mini-golf.
It's far too late for that. /images/graemlins/smile.gif
GoT
i've already figured out that he used his Asianess (which I'm pretty sure is fake anyway) to rig the site. I am working on finding a new game right now.
I actually didn't even play him in connect 4. Private Joker pwned him while I put $15 on each game laying 4:1. Right after we made the bet My internet went out so I had no idea what was going on. I called him and told him I'd run the bet as many times as he wanted. So he calls me ~2 last night and informs me that he ows me $75. /images/graemlins/grin.gif Private Joker rules.
BottlesOf
02-23-2005, 08:32 PM
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It'll be hard for them to talk while they're swapping saliva.
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So 2 months ago....
nolanfan34
02-23-2005, 08:32 PM
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No, you rule if you somehow managed to win more money than Private Joker, and you weren't even the one who played the game. nh
Yea, he made $25 off the deal and I cleared $75. I do rule.
private joker
02-24-2005, 04:38 AM
If I had known GoT was willing to spend that kind of dough on the C4, I'd have asked for more than $5 a game.
Rematch -- anytime, any place. Who's man enough to drop checkers with the Master?
Klepton
02-24-2005, 06:27 AM
PM me, i want in, $5 a match
if anyone is still keeping track of this there has been an update.
sthief09, sfer, GoT and I will be in Vegas from Friday (12th) night 'til probably Tuesday.
Joe Tall
02-25-2005, 02:43 PM
sthief09, sfer, GoT and I will be in Vegas from Friday (12th) night 'til probably Tuesday.
I assume this is March? Is JBB going? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
Peace,
Joe Tall
JBB has a job now and hence an excuse not to go. If he didn't have a job, he would just have no excuse.
Joe Tall
02-25-2005, 05:15 PM
JBB has a job now and hence an excuse not to go. If he didn't have a job, he would just have no excuse.
What's your point? If you want to something in life, you do it. If you aren't doing what you want to do, you're dead.
I'm not sure if I want to go yet but I just may. What week of March madness is this? What's the exact date range? Where are you all staying? Are you guys going to LA?
megabit
02-26-2005, 04:03 PM
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if anyone is still keeping track of this there has been an update.
sthief09, sfer, GoT and I will be in Vegas from Friday (12th) night 'til probably Tuesday.
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So you guys will be in Vegas the 12th is that March? If it is that is a Saturday. I will be in Vegas then too for the WSOP Circuit at the Rio.
GuyOnTilt
02-27-2005, 01:44 AM
I'm not sure if I want to go yet but I just may. What week of March madness is this? What's the exact date range? Where are you all staying? Are you guys going to LA?
Dude, you need to come 'cause I always miss you when you're out here. I suck at answering my phone apparently. But seriously, a bunch of us meeting up would be cool. We're getting into town the night of the 11th (Friday) and leaving March 15th (Tuesday). We're staying at the Mirage and then driving back over to LA for the rest of the week.
GoT
Sponger15SB
02-27-2005, 05:07 PM
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We're getting into town the night of the 11th (Friday) and leaving March 15th (Tuesday). We're staying at the Mirage and then driving back over to LA for the rest of the week.
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My last final in on Wed the 16th. I will be driving through LA that night on my way to San Diego, let me know what you guys are doing that night and maybe I'll join you.
sthief09
03-02-2005, 04:38 PM
ok so I think I'm back in
nolanfan34
03-02-2005, 06:19 PM
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You should just call him DM for short, like, permanently.
Joe826
03-02-2005, 07:01 PM
wow i didn't see this thread till now. i'll be in vegas for a week starting march 12th or so.
RustedCorpse
03-02-2005, 09:05 PM
Can I come too guys.... /images/graemlins/smile.gif I'll probably have my car around that time period it's big enough to fit us all, assuming we put Evan in the glove box. Also E's going to be there that time and said we could possibly stay with him in some house he has out there.
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