"The Pen:" Live NLHE Chat Thread

counselor please approach the bench
daredevil S2 was straight fire

Yes,the estate subs in. It seems to be harder; because while the living person gets tired pf paying legal bills and settles, the trustee's job is to keep going. Lot's of the big cases we read in lol school were against an estate.

I don't know what happens when he died before being served. Sounds like one of those things that happens all the time and yet has no caselaw.

I'd guess you serve the executor.

Tiaras for the Irish Dance National Championships

Those winners are getting great pieces of work.

G, those are fabulous

Put a star in the middle of those crowns and you'll have something almost like this...

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Continued total obsession with that woman

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For some unknown reason the first couple of pics I attempted to post didn't take, so I just quickly found and used that one. Jackpot imo, you're welcome.

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My first set of cornets basically were Wonderwoman sans star. No decor on them at all, just cut out the pattern and bend.

These aren't that far beyond that, tbh. Some of the simpler stuff I've made in a while. Just cut out some decor and rivet it on to the tiaras. A bit of hammer work to get the 3D curve and to mark the under/over pattern on the knot work, but even that is on the simplest side of hammer decoration. It's mostly just that the cut work is intricate.

Oh yeah this stuff I did that very few people can do is not that hard but thanks

LOL. Sorry, not trying to humble brag. It's just always funny to me when people get more impressed by the easy stuff than the difficult. It's like if you play the piano and everyone gets excited that you can play the riff to Jump by Van Halen.

I hear ya, but maybe you're better than you think! Doing something simple and doing it well is true craftsmanship.

Yeah, I don't think I suck. I'm just saying that these are pretty simple compared to the last pair I posted.

Are the patterns on the tiaras something meaningful to the group you're going to use them for, or just nice decoration?

Either way, nice work. As Jack said, simple and elegant.

ruh roh, isn't a celtic knot what got platner in trouble 😀

I have no idea, but that looks like a sticker. Either that or dudes tattooed skin is about 50 year older than the rest of him

oh sorry it was a death's head he got while on active duty that he claimed didn't know was associated with nazism (most of his family is jewish so seems plausible) and the celtic knot is how he covered it

see gman if you politarded more like me you'd understand my low content better 😀

also, very much agree, on the recognition thing, there's a bunch of things which i think i'm genuinely good at which is really hard that i never get praised for and then some things that i feel are super easy and any idiot in my situation would know how to do that gets praise

Does it bother you at all to be working for the dark side?

Meant to comment when this first came out.

Comment was going to be something like.... lol.

Where is the crown?

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all relative, we're like 1% the volume of the biggens

no, truth be told pay was always the bigger obstacle than morals. the dark side pays terribly - it's a running joke on gambling twitter where companies like caesars post quant jobs demanding silicon valley/wall street level skills that influence millions in revenue, skills that most dfs/sportsbettors making six figures don't even have, for 48k a year. never made sense to apply

same with media, you see a few guys successfully transition to genuine sports betting media roles at places like espn and cbs sports, but i know for a fact that for years those people were earning $50 a podcast because that career is so alluring there's no shortage of people who want in on it and so those who do it are flat broke, without much better options, but sadly that's the path to making it for the good roles and for every one of those frauds like rickrungood who gets a tv commentary job, there's 100 others who don't make that leap and are still earning subsistence wages and eventually leave to work for their buddy's car wash

as for morals, traditional sportsbooks are predatory and evil, i would definitely have some qualms working for one of them, qualms which i don't have with p2p

we're just like NYSE or NASDAQ. yes, people lose their shirts in the market every year, but the exchange itself is indifferent to who wins and who loses, so we're not specifically targeting the biggest losers and sending them offers to entice them to wager more. we just facilitate the transaction and takes a small fee, charging around 1% versus the 10-40% vig a traditional book extracts - and 40% is not an exaggeration, parlays, long shots, and futures regularly exceed that, not uncommon for something like mvp awards to total up to 900% aggregate probability so for every $1 they payout, they make $8 in profit

p2p is dominated by sharp money, but so is wall street, and bottom line is a recreational losing bettor is going to be far better off at p2p than a predatory sportsbook.

and frankly, sports betting markets are so efficient that over a large enough sample most bettors are going to land close to 50/50 regardless of how awful their decision making is. the difference between risking $101 to win $100 versus $110 to win $100 on a coin flip is the difference between an expensive hobby and bankruptcy

He knew it was a 'Totenkopf' associated with the SS. He claims it was widespread in the US military figured it was not that offensive.

Paywalled article from CNN
https://archive.ph/Vux4y

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