Banned from the (J)Oaks

[Brown Thumb]

Ok, first of all, I was smoking a lot of P.O.T. yesterday. I went out to get something to eat, and I ended up in Berkeley. After eating, I decided to go play at the Oaks in Emeryville. I had not been there in years.

The place is a total dump now; not that it was every anything special before.

I had $200 and played it up to $600 at 5/10 playing Brown Thumb style. So ... I took it to 10/20.

I played a few orbits and my buzz was wearing off. I looked around and saw that all the other players were Vietnamese. Of course, this was not a problem except for the fact two of them kept talking during the hand and not speaking English. The dealer didn't care.

I didn't care, either because its hard to collude against the Brown Thumb method because either I hit my hand, or I don't.

Anyhow, here it goes.

I take down a pot with 22 that I raised under the gun and two bets back to me ... the guy and his buddy were pumping the pot. I called and my dueces held up when AK did not improve. The other guy folded after I came out betting on the junk flop and the first guy raised. At show down both started laughing at me and calling me names.

after my blinds, I was on the button with 78 Clubs. it was three bets to me because guy number 1 raises and his buddy re-raises. I call, Guy number one caps.

Flop is 456 with two clubs. guy number 1 checks, buddy checks, I bet ... raise, raise. I cap. Both start talking, and call.

Right now, I'm getting pissed and as the turn brings a duece, both start yapping and guy number one bets, guy number 2 raises. I call time and ask for the floor man.

I tell the floor man these guys are pumping the pot and talking to each other during the hand (Hey, I have the nuts, so I want this to be a good burn). The dealer looks the other way, and nobody at the table will confirm my story. I say "f'this" and I raise. I get warned for language.

Guy one calls, guy 2 folds. I ask the floor man to look at his hand. Floor man tells me to calm down and play out the hand.

River is Ace of Hearts, I still have the nuts. Guy 1 checks, I bet, he check-raises (while the other guy starts cackling) I raise, he calls.

I show my strait, he shows AA and says, "you lucky, you get card with trash like that."

I told him that if he sucked his buddy's cock he might get lucky cards.

He jumps up and tries to slap me from across the table, he spills chips and says he will kill me. The floor man jumps in and boots both of us. Security comes and makes me rack up, cash out and go.

Floor man tells me never to come back, because I incited a fight.

I have about a grand and I RUN right to my car and bail out of there before those guys got any ideas.

I made it home and fired up some P.O.T.

Now I remember why I only play online.

[MicroBob]

good story. and a hearty Welcome Back Brown Thumb!!!

[kfellmy]

I have played live twice since I moved to Florida and both times their ended up being a fight. Luckily each time I remembered to bring the Desert Eagle. I was not involved with the fights so it didn't have to make an appearance, but my hand was on it.

So yea...online poker only.

[Mason Hellmuth]

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Luckily each time I remembered to bring the Desert Eagle.

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.50 cal?

P.S. I <3 Brown Thumb.

[kfellmy]

no .44 auto mag

A guy that was at the game asked if it was a 50 and I looked at him funny. He said they made the gun in 44 auto mag and 50. I had no idea that the gun was being made in 50 caliber.

[destroBU]

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Luckily each time I remembered to bring the Desert Eagle. I was not involved with the fights so it didn't have to make an appearance, but my hand was on it.


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/images/graemlins/cool.gif cool dood! /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[russellmj]

They let you carry a gun into the casino?

[Brown Thumb]

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I have played live twice since I moved to Florida and both times their ended up being a fight. Luckily each time I remembered to bring the Desert Eagle. I was not involved with the fights so it didn't have to make an appearance, but my hand was on it.

So yea...online poker only.

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What happened? Did you call a string raise on somebody?

[MicroBob]

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They let you carry a gun into the casino?

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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
So 'desert eagle' is a gun??

(sorry....I seriously had no idea)

[russellmj]

The Desert Eagle is a giant handgun. I doubt it could be
concealed effectively. I had no idea firearms were welcome in some casinos. Whether you have a permit or not.

[Sintax]

Does the gun make you a better poker player, or just a tough guy?

Is the protection neccessary because your stature is such that even the penny slot pulling grannies could kick your ass?

If I had brought this to the casino, would it make me more of a badass than you?

http://www.koliga.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/36-232.jpg

[Tk79]

Good to see you again Brown Thumb. Keep up the P.O.T.

[barongreenback]

P.O.T. > AA

[RaiNz]

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I have played live twice since I moved to Florida and both times their ended up being a fight. Luckily each time I remembered to bring the Desert Eagle. I was not involved with the fights so it didn't have to make an appearance, but my hand was on it.

So yea...online poker only.

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DEAGLE HS. PWNED!

[KKbluff]

NOT a desert eagle: http://www.koliga.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/36-232.jpg

Yes, a real desert eagle:

http://www.waffenhq.de/infanterie/desert-eagle-01.jpg

[parappa]

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good story. and a hearty Welcome Back Brown Thumb!!!

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[Weatherhead03]

haha thats a good story..I like how you [censored] over that little bitch

[kasey2004]

Hilarious post. I love how they pumped up the pot against your nuts even when he was drawing dead... thats always nice.

/images/graemlins/spade.gif Kasey /images/graemlins/spade.gif

[RydenStoompala]

I've run smack into asian players openly colluding at the table twice and both times the staff would say nothing. It is freaking scary to suddenly realize you're in a casino where some of the players are running the crew like their prison bitches. There is a good reason for the dealers and floor staff not willing to intervene...they could be killed. I don't care if you have a SAW and two crates of ammunition, you're making a poor strategic decision by mixing it up with the Viet gangs or the Hong Kong types in some of these casinos. They sometimes control the entire place and they WILL kill you. Just change tables or casinos the moment you see them jabbering in Vietnamese or Cantonese and the staff are not stopping them. You got away with one brother.

[Kirg]

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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
So 'desert eagle' is a gun??

(sorry....I seriously had no idea)

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Do yourself a favor and go rent Snatch, you will never wonder what a desert eagle is ever again /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[SackUp]

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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
So 'desert eagle' is a gun??

(sorry....I seriously had no idea)

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Do yourself a favor and go rent Snatch, you will never wonder what a desert eagle is ever again /images/graemlins/grin.gif

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I was thinking the same thing? Wondering if the OP who said he had a gun with him had one with REPLICA written down the side /images/graemlins/smile.gif

And welcome back BT. The only move I would have pulled when you left was to through a chip back to the too dudes as a tip for helping pump up the pot when you had the nuts /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[DavidC]

Wow, did I personally give you etiquette lessons in a past life or something? /images/graemlins/smile.gif

NH.

[Brown Thumb]

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I've run smack into asian players openly colluding at the table twice and both times the staff would say nothing. It is freaking scary to suddenly realize you're in a casino where some of the players are running the crew like their prison bitches. There is a good reason for the dealers and floor staff not willing to intervene...they could be killed. I don't care if you have a SAW and two crates of ammunition, you're making a poor strategic decision by mixing it up with the Viet gangs or the Hong Kong types in some of these casinos. They sometimes control the entire place and they WILL kill you. Just change tables or casinos the moment you see them jabbering in Vietnamese or Cantonese and the staff are not stopping them. You got away with one brother.

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You don't even want to know where I had to hide my watch.

[Ronald White]

How do you know they were Vietnamese? If you don't know, its irresponsible to put that in your post.

[Tk79]

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How do you know they were Vietnamese? If you don't know, its irresponsible to put that in your post.

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LOL. If you knew Brown Thumb you would know he doesnt much care about being responsible.

[mmbt0ne]

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I have played live twice since I moved to Florida and both times their ended up being a fight. Luckily each time I remembered to bring the Desert Eagle. I was not involved with the fights so it didn't have to make an appearance, but my hand was on it.

So yea...online poker only.

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What happened? Did you call a string raise on somebody?

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http://img225.exs.cx/img225/6991/playpokerlikethebros12zl.jpg

[kfellmy]

home game and no one wondered why I was wearing a big heavy coat...in FLorida.

[this guy]

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How do you know they were Vietnamese? If you don't know, its irresponsible to put that in your post.

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OMG BROWNTHUMB IS SUCH A RACIST!!!! HE SHOULD BE BANNED!!! Seriously dude, who gives a [censored], the story was entertaining and that's all that matters.

[kfellmy]

I wasn't involved. They were all drunk idiots. Big guys with little brains and no poker skills. I did well.

[Losing all]

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How do you know they were Vietnamese? If you don't know, its irresponsible to put that in your post.

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I just got off the phone with the ACLU. Something must be done about this!

Thumb is still all D.U.D.E.

[kfellmy]

playing, in Florida, in a trailer park with trailer trash, I take no chances. None of them know that I live in a nice guarded secure condo. I don't have to worry about my neighbor trying to steal from me to keep their drug habit going. All of my neighbors are rich and old. Drunks, without a doubt, but not drug heads.

[mosta]

where'd you eat in berkeley? was it good?

[Drunk Bob]

Well I still think I take the prize for being banned at the most internet sites.

InterPoker.CaribbeanSun.PokerPlex.TotalBetParadise Poker and PokerStars(reversed).

You have PooMountain and some california B&amp;M.

P.O.T takes away your ambition! /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Muck off]

brownthumb i feel ur pain...lucky chances u dont you got the same problem but you got the filipinos also...i played tourny the other day and the whole frikin table were flips including the dealer and a 10 deep railbird session all cackling in tagalog...the worse was when i made final table against a filipino....annoying spot to be in when the whole casino is rooting against you....on a side note i hate filipinos so much that i married one and had to half flip kids....misery loves company.

[DMBFan23]

you're on fire lately. first the bison signal and now this. keep up the good work

[Losing all]

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playing, in Florida, in a trailer park with trailer trash, I take no chances. None of them know that I live in a nice guarded secure condo. I don't have to worry about my neighbor trying to steal from me to keep their drug habit going. All of my neighbors are rich and old. Drunks, without a doubt, but not drug heads.

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I try to avoid games where a .357 isn't big enough.

[DanS]

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The place is a total dump now; not that it was every anything special before.

I had $200 and played it up to $600 at 5/10 playing Brown Thumb style. So ... I took it to 10/20.



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I wouldn't want to let the fact that the Oaks spreads 6/12 and 15/30 (and not your limits) get in the way of your story... so I won't.

[tdarko]

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How do you know they were Vietnamese? If you don't know, its irresponsible to put that in your post.

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you're a douchebag.

[pzhon]

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on a side note i hate filipinos so much that i married one and had two half flip kids

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What's worse, that Lorena Bobbitt is from the Philipines, or that she isn't (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorena_Bobbitt), but Filipino women say she is?

It can be nice if people are chatting in Tagalog and you understand the language. Everything I know is bastos, though.

[Brown Thumb]

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How do you know they were Vietnamese? If you don't know, its irresponsible to put that in your post.

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Your post is pretty stupid. If I wasnt't smoking P.O.T. right now, I might get mad at you.

In a lot of ways, your insinuation is more offensive than than what you THOUGHT was offensive about mine - in other words, you assume that I can't tell the difference or that I am indifferent to these races of people. In other words, you are accusing me of thinking that "they all look the same."

It really is not that difficult to identify the various Asian races. In this case, they had long, straggly hair, goatees, crooked teeth, and wore sandels and vests.

No, really. The language was a dead give away, dummy. Besides, they did not look either Chinese, Korean, or Japanese ... Also, it helps that just about every time I hear about these types of poker colluders, etc. they are identified as Vietnamese. Who cares, really.

[Brown Thumb]

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where'd you eat in berkeley? was it good?

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Zachary's. Had some Chicago-style pizza with chicken and pesto. It was good.

[Brown Thumb]

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The place is a total dump now; not that it was every anything special before.

I had $200 and played it up to $600 at 5/10 playing Brown Thumb style. So ... I took it to 10/20.



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I wouldn't want to let the fact that the Oaks spreads 6/12 and 15/30 (and not your limits) get in the way of your story... so I won't.

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You are right. I definately was not playing 15/30, so it must have been at 6/12. The first game must have been 4/8. Honestly, for some reason, details like that are usually cloudy for me ... once I sit down, they are just chips to play with.

Online, I always start at 3/6 or 5/10; if I win, I go to 10/20 or 15/30. I must have those values ingrained.

[Hopey]

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How do you know they were Vietnamese? If you don't know, its irresponsible to put that in your post.

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Amazingly enough, this is the first time I've felt compelled to do this.

[Ronald White]

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How do you know they were Vietnamese? If you don't know, its irresponsible to put that in your post.

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you're a douchebag.

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That's not fair to call me that.

What if the players were German or Indian? Does that change the story? Including a race in the story, especially if the race isn't confirmed is irresponsible and harmful and either starts or perpetuates stereotypes.

I'm sure Amir Vahedi, John Phan, Phil Ivey, or Scott Nguyen, and etc. would not appreciate your insensitivity to this issue.

[tdarko]

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That's not fair to call me that.

What if the players were German or Indian? Does that change the story? Including a race in the story, especiall if the race isn't confirmed is irresponsible and harmful and either starts or perpetuates sterotypes.

I'm sure Amir Vahedi, John Phan, Phil Ivey, or Scott Nguyen, and etc. would appreciate your insensitivity to this issue.

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it's very fair actually you naive flanderlike do-gooder. i have been "that white guy" at the table before, is that PC? yet nobody acts like a bitch about that. you say vietnamese or indian and all the sudden it's touchy ground, [censored] that he wasn't being racist he was calling a spade a spade.

you flander are a douchebag and its fair b/c your comment made you one.

[Hopey]

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That's not fair to call me that.

What if the players were German or Indian? Does that change the story? Including a race in the story, especiall if the race isn't confirmed is irresponsible and harmful and either starts or perpetuates sterotypes.

I'm sure Amir Vahedi, John Phan, Phil Ivey, or Scott Nguyen, and etc. would appreciate your insensitivity to this issue.

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BT only mentioned the fact that they were Vietnamese because he believed that they were colluding by telling each other their hole cards WHILE TALKING IN VIETNAMESE. It had nothing to do with him "perpetuating stereotypes" or "being racist"...it had everything to do with him describing the actual situation that unfolded.

Now, maybe they were Laotian or Cambodian or something and BT was mistaken...but who the [censored] cares? It's like if I heard players colluding in what I though was Norwegian, but it turned out to be Swedish. Nobody would call me racist for that kind of mistake, or for mentioning that the people SPEAKING NORWEGIAN WERE NORWEGIAN.

[kfellmy]

trust me....if you made it to the 8th grade you would be smarter than this bunch. No way I am telling them I went to college for 5 years. But their money will spend just as well as anyone else's.

[Mason Hellmuth]

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Honestly, because of P.O.T., details like that are usually cloudy for me

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Yes. That must be why.

[GrandmaStabone]

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I have played live twice since I moved to Florida and both times their ended up being a fight. Luckily each time I remembered to bring the Desert Eagle. I was not involved with the fights so it didn't have to make an appearance, but my hand was on it.

So yea...online poker only.

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What happened? Did you call a string raise on somebody?

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http://img225.exs.cx/img225/6991/playpokerlikethebros12zl.jpg

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Me and Pooky, we put a little "secret ingredient" in the special sauce....

I'll give you a hint... It's semen.....Animal semen.....

[Hopey]

That's why I only eat at White Castle.

[SackUp]

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That's not fair to call me that.

What if the players were German or Indian? Does that change the story? Including a race in the story, especiall if the race isn't confirmed is irresponsible and harmful and either starts or perpetuates sterotypes.

I'm sure Amir Vahedi, John Phan, Phil Ivey, or Scott Nguyen, and etc. would appreciate your insensitivity to this issue.

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it's very fair actually you naive flanderlike do-gooder. i have been "that white guy" at the table before, is that PC? yet nobody acts like a bitch about that. you say vietnamese or indian and all the sudden it's touchy ground, [censored] that he wasn't being racist he was calling a spade a spade.

you flander are a douchebag and its fair b/c your comment made you one.

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Dude, vietnemese is not the prefered nomenclature. it's asian-american.

oh wait, we are talkikng about the dudes who make food with dogs - vietnemese is just fine.

[Losing all]

anti-dogite

[PITTM]

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where'd you eat in berkeley? was it good?

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i ate at blakes yesterday and it was delicious.

rj

[mosta]

the place I probably ate at the most over several years was Mandarin House, around the corner, in the grease court. I used to drink at blake's a lot for a period because I was friendly wiht a bartender there. good times. didn't have the food many times though. not sure why.

[Tapirboy]

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where'd you eat in berkeley? was it good?

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One of the few things I miss about CA is Mondo Gelato.

[danvh]

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you say vietnamese or indian and all the sudden it's touchy ground, [censored] that he wasn't being racist he was calling a spade a spade.


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Now if he did that it really would have been racist

[RydenStoompala]

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I'm sure Amir Vahedi, John Phan, Phil Ivey, or Scott Nguyen, and etc. would not appreciate your insensitivity to this issue.

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Jeepers damn almighty. Those guys would do the right thing. They'd take a sensitive guy out back of the new Wynn golf course, hit him hard with a pitching wedge and bury his arse in a puddle of poo. You're tossing out names of people who I KNOW drop half a million on a golf game, and you think they'd be offended if someone mislabelled a Viet? You are doing way too much Aspen nose candy dude.

[Dbldaggers]

Hilarious story.

Glad your back. Your posts are usually funny as hell.


DD

[TomBrooks]

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I've run smack into asian players openly colluding at the table twice and both times the staff would say nothing. It is freaking scary to suddenly realize you're in a casino where some of the players are running the crew like their prison bitches. There is a good reason for the dealers and floor staff not willing to intervene...they could be killed. I don't care if you have a SAW and two crates of ammunition, you're making a poor strategic decision by mixing it up with the Viet gangs or the Hong Kong types in some of these casinos. They sometimes control the entire place and they WILL kill you. Just change tables or casinos the moment you see them jabbering in Vietnamese or Cantonese and the staff are not stopping them. You got away with one brother.

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I was under the impression the major casinos weren't controlled by thugs or gangs. Which casinos are you talking about?

[ColdCaller]

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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!
So 'desert eagle' is a gun??

(sorry....I seriously had no idea)

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Do yourself a favor and go rent Snatch, you will never wonder what a desert eagle is ever again /images/graemlins/grin.gif

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Or, you know, look at other webpages than 2+2. How does anyone that uses the Internet and play online poker not know what a DE is?

(Counter-Strike anyone?!)

[Christmas Steve]

Snatch - good movie. I _knew_ that's where I saw that gun before!

[Tony_P]

wicked awesome bump. I wish Brown Thumb would come back.