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jbutler said:
Been playing a $5/5 NL home/underground game for a long time and just noticed something peculiar about the baller poker mirror artwork.

Sure, the decorations are horrendous and the place is kind of a dump (they have every beer you can imagine no charge so long as all you can imagine is Miller Lite and the food is limited to pizza and cheesesteak), but with a max rake of $2 in a $5/5 game, I'll take it.

Anyway, on to the beautiful mirror. I've looked at this thing for hours upon hours of my life and only this past weekend did I notice something:

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Hey, those look strangely familiar. Let's get a little closer:

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Looks like someone scanned a TRK chip to make the "art" for the mirror.

BONUS: The host/owner asks me why I'm taking a picture of the mirror and I explain that the art for the chip is a scan of a particular type of chip well-known in chip collecting circles (not worth going into more detail with these mooks). The guy who asks the question says how can you tell and I explain the mold and say but it's a bit blurry due to poor photoshop work on the resizing. Guy says it wasn't resized, it's the same size as a real chip. I say I guess you should know since you bought it, but I'd bet it's not (I'm now in the 10 seat, far from the mirror). And he says "How much?" I through four greens into the middle of the table and he throws four greens and gets up to measure. Not even close as was obvious to anyone with eyes.
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Interesting. It does look like a bad scan of a TRK chip.

So they:
- changed the base color
- tried to replicate the font, but only got the "large font" part down.
- tried to replicate the number of edge spot inserts, but not the size (if you look carefully, there's a 5,000 chip on the mirror with 5 inserts, same as TRK).

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The game broke after we got down to 5 players shortly after 4:30am. A couple of the guys were joking that they could only play until 11. 11pm on Sunday. Total players hit 14 for a stretch with a table running downstairs as well.
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Ben, who has been struggling for while, broke out with a huge game and banked just north of $400 off a $40 buy in. I'm glad he won big as he needed something like this. It seemed like poker wasn't much fun for him anymore and he hosts the weekly Monday night game I attend. I ran pretty cold early, re-bought, and then ran my stack up to $220.
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Fun night overall! I'm getting a lot of texts from the crew this morning and it sounds like everybody had a great time, including a couple of noobs and one returning player who I haven't seen in over a year.
 
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Just played in a MPLS Rounders Christmas Tournament. It was a 50 dollar tournament which I busted out of. The chips are terrible but where else in MN can you get 50 people at a home game. Went over to the cash table which was playing .25/.50 NLHE with a 40 dollar min 100 dollar max.

Everyone else was buying in for 60 to 100. I bought in for my usual 40 dollars.... after an hour I called my 30 minutes. Here's what I cashed out with :)
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Gave the host a nice tip and left with 363 dollars. I think this is probably my best run in the shortest amount of time with a 40 dollar starting stack.

St Croix Casino harvesting here I come!
 
@Toby That font for the 'SP' looks familiar ;-).

@shawn15p - great set up mate. Love the table and design, You may have already answered this, but who did it for you?
 
Mr. Cheese said:
Gave the host a nice tip and left with 363 dollars. I think this is probably my best run in the shortest amount of time with a 40 dollar starting stack.

St Croix Casino harvesting here I come!
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Red $1 chips and green $5s?.....how can anyone buy those? :eek:

Harvest an extra frac for me (y) :thumbsup:
 
Guy flops the nut flush, improves on the river, and only wins $2.25. Lol

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Mr. Cheese said:
Just played in a MPLS Rounders Christmas Tournament. It was a 50 dollar tournament which I busted out of. The chips are terrible but where else in MN can you get 50 people at a home game. Went over to the cash table which was playing .25/.50 NLHE with a 40 dollar min 100 dollar max.

Everyone else was buying in for 60 to 100. I bought in for my usual 40 dollars.... after an hour I called my 30 minutes. Here's what I cashed out with :)
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Gave the host a nice tip and left with 363 dollars. I think this is probably my best run in the shortest amount of time with a 40 dollar starting stack.

St Croix Casino harvesting here I come!
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Tournament players sitting in cash games are the best! Nice run.
 
courage said:
$1/1 mixed game, Christmas game at one of my regs' place. She's buying the Bremertons. Wasn't strip pokah.
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Fixed your picture... Oh god, that would make me soooo nervous. Hosted a ladies poker night a year of so, and all the women were drinking wine (lots of wine) out of giant wine glasses, and the sloshing of wine was unbearable (especially at showdown). One lady would get so excited if she won, the red wine in her glass would slosh up towards the rim of the glass, perilously close to spilling all over my table... We had to make a rule, that prior to the River being dealt, ALL glasses had to be set down.

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Trihonda said:
Fixed your picture... Oh god, that would make me soooo nervous. Hosted a ladies poker night a year of so, and all the women were drinking wine (lots of wine) out of giant wine glasses, and the sloshing of wine was unbearable (especially at showdown). One lady would get so excited if she won, the red wine in her glass would slosh up towards the rim of the glass, perilously close to spilling all over my table... We had to make a rule, that prior to the River being dealt, ALL glasses had to be set down.

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Not surprised that you felt compelled to make another rule, but your fix was a fail. My crowd is pretty relaxed about sloshing wine and beer, esp where attractive women are concerned. What do you think made the dry-clean-only wool sweater come off? :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:
 
This was one of the tamer ladie's nights. Well before the river "glasses down" rule. I'm sorry, but I was doing this as a favor to a few of the neighborhood ladies, and I wasn't really into having red wine (or any beverage) spilled on my table or my brand new cream colored carpet (THAT would have made my wife, oh so happy). This is why I have drink carts. Now don't get me wrong, I wasn't all anal-douche about it, but when the ladies got all super drunk and were about to spill wine all over the place, I had to take it down a notch. One lady would get so excited at showdown, she'd jump up and wave her arms around when she'd win... but she was too drunk to remember that she was holding a giant glass of red wine.

At one game, I was seriously worried how they were going to get home (and they only lived within a few blocks of us). You might think being the only sober guy, in a room full of falling down drunk woman, might be tons of fun, but I've had more fun experiences in my life. :rolleyes: Guess I'm just weird that way.

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detroitdad said:
hmmm, then I think you might be doing something wrong.........just saying. :)
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You ever see one of those "real housewives" shows, where all these caddy women are at a party and obnoxiously drunk, and there's like one guy there trying to help run the party (imagine the guy is married to someone NOT at the party). That's about the scene I remember.

Don't get me wrong, I had fun helping teach the ladies poker, but I've had to deal with too many obnoxious "fun" drunk people in my career. The concept has long since lost it's appeal to me.
 
Trihonda said:
You ever see one of those "real housewives" shows, where all these caddy women are at a party and obnoxiously drunk, and there's like one guy there trying to help run the party (imagine the guy is married to someone NOT at the party). That's about the scene I remember.

Don't get me wrong, I had fun helping teach the ladies poker, but I've had to deal with too many obnoxious "fun" drunk people in my career. The concept has long since lost it's appeal to me.
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never watched it. Only reality tv I watch is the NFL.

I don't know. I think I'd accept the challenge.
 
detroitdad said:
The chick with the wine and scarf kind of looks like she wants to be tied up..........Not that I've seen that "look" before
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LOL, well, she's actually the best (most avid) poker player in all the ladies poker nights. She is the only one who has continued to play my game (when she's in town). She's not the most adept the finer points of poker, but... I will tell you that her maff skills are unparalleled.

I would wager money that there's no one on this site who can match her dizzying math skills... Gauntlet thrown.

I will also add, that if she's in town for the MTTD, she'd be one of the locals I would consider extending an invitation to. I think our MTTD numbers are such that we might not need to invite many locals, but for sure a few will get the nod.
 
Trihonda said:
LOL, well, she's actually the best (most avid) poker player in all the ladies poker nights. She is the only one who has continued to play my game (when she's in town). She's not the most adept the finer points of poker, but... I will tell you that her maff skills are unparalleled.

I would wager money that there's no one on this site who can match her dizzying math skills... Gauntlet thrown.

I will also add, that if she's in town for the MTTD, she'd be one of the locals I would consider extending an invitation to. I think our MTTD numbers are such that we might not need to invite many locals, but for sure a few will get the nod.
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Math..........Who gives a shit about math. Does she like to be tied up? Gauntlet thrown!!! :) but seriously, does she?
 

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