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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip 11-29-2007, 05:09 AM
Replies: 72
Views: 1,445
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: What\'s the REAL reason(s) so many \"top\" players are busto?

IMO, Any player who has the $ to play at the stakes where the general public would know them as a big name poker player, is an action junkie and won't stop, ever, unless they happen to go broke.
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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review 11-28-2007, 03:17 AM
Replies: 101
Views: 880
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: Great Cocktails

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I've started drinking Brave Bulls lately. Fans of Black Russians may recognize a similarity:

2 oz. silver tequila
1 oz. Kahlua

Pour the tequila into a rocks glass over ice, add the...
Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review 11-27-2007, 11:45 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 180
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: Some New Reading Recommendations? Varied Genre suggestions needed.

If you like Borges, you might like Italo Calvino (http://des.emory.edu/mfp/calvino/). The short story collections Cosmicomics, Numbers in the Dark, and t zero might remind you most of Borges, though...
Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review 11-27-2007, 02:32 AM
Replies: 211
Views: 1,961
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?

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Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke

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I'm about halfway through this, and it's very good, the best book I've read since The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

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Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review 11-27-2007, 02:19 AM
Replies: 211
Views: 1,961
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: Books: What are you reading tonight?

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anyone have an opinion on Rant, Palahniuks latest novel?

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I didn't finish it, and have read and liked all his other novels (some more than others, obviously). The...
Forum: Other Other Topics 11-26-2007, 02:06 AM
Replies: 100
Views: 983
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: Great/terrible movies

http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff174/potvaliant/36m.jpg
Forum: Other Other Topics 11-22-2007, 02:49 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 84
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: OOT what should I read over Xmas break?

Midnight's Children is a very cool book - Rushdie's best imo. His writing is a lot more playful and fun than you might expect; I feel like the fatwa might give some people the impression that he's...
Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review 11-17-2007, 03:35 AM
Replies: 81
Views: 915
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: Crazy Women! Film and TV characters

Also, either of these two :

http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff174/potvaliant/sissy_spacek_piper_laurie_carrie_00.jpg
Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review 11-17-2007, 03:25 AM
Replies: 81
Views: 915
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: Crazy Women! Film and TV characters

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River from Firefly, obviously. Not her fault though.

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/3150/river23np2.jpg



Crazier, imo :
Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance 11-17-2007, 01:39 AM
Replies: 64
Views: 294
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: OFFICIAL SPECIAL DAVID SKLANSKY FORUM THEME SONG COMPETITION

So this probably isn't a song everyone knows, and I never read any of Sklansky's threads, or posts, and due to metric concerns I had to fabricate a Sklansky man-crush on a banned poster.

But...
Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review 11-14-2007, 12:24 AM
Replies: 128
Views: 985
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: Actors that cant make a bad movie...

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Tobey Maguire made Spiderman 1 2 3, this sort of eliminates him right off the bat.

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? The first two spiderman movies are as good as a movie based on a comic book can get...
Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review 11-14-2007, 12:12 AM
Replies: 128
Views: 985
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: Actors that cant make a bad movie...

I'd add Benicio Del Toro, Tobey Maguire, and Philip Seymour Hoffman; I'd probably throw John Tuturro in there too, except for his unfortunate habit of saying yes to Adam Sandler.

But overall, my...
Forum: Other Other Topics 11-13-2007, 03:57 AM
Replies: 56
Views: 653
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: Dexter 11/11

Has anyone else started to like Dexter less since Lila has been introduced? I have. Here, I thnk, is why :

In the first season, Dexter was amoral, but ethical. This season, as he tries to become a...
Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance 10-24-2007, 06:21 PM
Replies: 554
Views: 3,562
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: CONTEST: post a hotter \"brunette\" and win money

http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff174/potvaliant/pic02.jpg
http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff174/potvaliant/pic11.jpg


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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance 10-24-2007, 06:17 PM
Replies: 554
Views: 3,562
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: CONTEST: post a hotter \"brunette\" and win money

http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff174/potvaliant/tn_pic01.jpg

http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff174/potvaliant/no_panties010.jpg

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Forum: Other Other Topics 10-20-2007, 03:22 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 225
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: Random Google Image Search Results Thread

"No, I am not a saint yet, but I know the way to become one."
http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff174/potvaliant/164663763_f93dcf251a.jpg

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Forum: Other Other Topics 10-20-2007, 03:11 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 225
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: Random Google Image Search Results Thread

"The power of a nuclear bomb is a speck compared to the power of a saint."


http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff174/potvaliant/AbsolutePowerLogo-1.jpg
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Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance 10-18-2007, 02:08 AM
Replies: 144
Views: 1,233
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: How many pokerooms cheat? [modnote: read the OP]

The Well : T Kiriakopoulos.

Please?
Forum: EDF 10-16-2007, 04:17 PM
Replies: 111
Views: 898
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: Suggest a new name for EDF

The 400 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_McAllister)

Casa Cognoscenti / Cognoscenti's Corner / Cognoscenti Café
Forum: EDF 10-09-2007, 10:48 PM
Replies: 238
Views: 2,597
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: The Beer connoisseur thread

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All,

This was mentioned above, but I tried the Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout yesterday. I think it was $8 for 4 bottles at Whole Foods. Enjoyed it a lot. It was very rich and...
Forum: Poker Beats, Brags, and Variance 09-25-2007, 01:13 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 179
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: You think Texas Holdem is easy? You\'re wrong

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ignotum per ignotius
(To explain) a thing not understood by one still less understood.


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Level?
Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review 09-18-2007, 06:28 PM
Replies: 30
Views: 191
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: Band of brothers nuff said...

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what happend with us as a whole becasue that trully was the greatest generation ever to live in america why and how did we loose that pride protective qualities for our country, family and...
Forum: Other Other Topics 09-18-2007, 04:29 PM
Replies: 105
Views: 581
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: Creepy gossip about Wayne Brady

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He's one of those guys that requires that nobody make eye contact with him on set and [censored] like that.

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Is this some joke I'm not getting or does this...
Forum: The Lounge: Discussion+Review 09-18-2007, 02:25 AM
Replies: 784
Views: 4,237
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: TLDR Beer Club

North Coast Brewing Co.'s Old No. 38 Stout

I first tried this beer a few months ago, but wanted to try the same brewery's Old Rasputin Imperial Stout before posting, as it had been well reviewed...
Forum: Other Other Topics 09-18-2007, 01:41 AM
Replies: 99
Views: 1,104
Posted By Potvaliant
Re: Good, Deep, Fantasy/Sci-Fi Series (for Older Readers)

Gene Wolfe, The Book of the New Sun - Amazon Link (http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Claw-First-Half-Book/dp/0312890176/ref=pd_sim_b_1/002-1256955-4016819) to the first two books.

Smart, nuanced...
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