“The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun.” The official line from the National Rifle Association after the shooting of Sandy Hook Elementary, this has since become standard rhetoric for pro-gun advocates. Yesterday's tragedy in Las Vegas highlights the grotesque lie of this claim. A simple question to ask any of your pro-gun acquaintances: How could ‘a good guy with a gun’ have possibly done anything to stop a man shooting down into a crowd from the 32nd floor of

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OK everybody, first of all I hope you all are save and didn't lost any family members or friends there. Second, don't get dragged down by someone like the shooter. Continue with your live like nothing happened, handle the fallen with respect!

I may live in Germany but it's not like we had our shootings. I didn't lost a family member or friend by now and I don't wish someone to.

LVMPD you do a great job out there, all respects to you today.

Watch the Sky's, Thundersky Out.

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At the smoke shop with my dad so he could get cigarettes, and I try buying some red vines. Simple right?

Nope

I was told that because I forgot my ID and had no way of proving I was over 18 that I couldn't purchase anything. It's candy, not tobacco

So I made my dad buy them for me

Bad day at the tables yesterday. I tried no cash games, but played two single-table satellites, and the daily deepstack over at the Rio. All failed, and all told cost me half my current profit.

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Well, as it turned out, I only played two hours yesterday, doing cash games at the Venetian. But a hell of a two hours it was.

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Got in late last night, jetlagged but I think ready to return. Las Vegas is fun, but a bit surreal.

I made one last effort at playing yesterday before it was time to return the rental car and get to the airport. After winning $50 on a craps table, I went to the Venetian and sat down with $200 at a $2/$5 no-limit cash game. This was my final play, and win or lose would ensure that I would leave with at least $1500.

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Four days early. Your first guess might be that it’s because I lost my shirt out there, but thankfully, you would be wrong. This trip turned out to be cursed from the get-go, unfortunately, but it had one hay of a consolation prize.

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Arrival in Las Vegas was something of a comedy of very odd errors for me. Woke up at 5am for a 7am flight, took care of some last minute chores, then caught a taxi to the airport. Flight was on time--a direct flight to Las Vegas on Southwest; the only airline that offers them out of here--arriving at 8am local time after a four flight in which I played Ace Attorney: Justice for All on 3DS. And can I how say much I hate the Engarde case...? The Judge is in particularly bad form here, trampling

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Not my best day. Things seemed just off from the get-go, as I slept poorly and was making something of a comedy of errors pretty much all day. And yet, I actually showed a slight profit on the day because one of my errors turned golden.

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Well, yesterday was the opposite of the first day, though not entirely in a bad way. I bombed in my one tournament entry, the $235 daily deepstack at the WSOP at the Rio. Out in an hour. It was one of those deals where you can literally do no right and all of your hands will inevitably be second-best. It also seems like this there's this one guy who has your number and is always going to beat you, ending up taking all your chips. Such it was here. No hands worth recounting, and I played too

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Hello, folks...

I'm on my yearly pilgrimage to Las Pegasus Vegas, and I'm here for the next week to play some poker. I got in around 6pm last night, around three and a half hours late after my flight out was delayed, forcing them to shift me to a second, later flight. But arrive I did, and now it's time to play. So, just as I did last year, I'll blog about my playing experiences for those who are curious, win lose or draw.

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Reservations are made for Las Vegas next week (I only wish it was Las Pegasus!). I'll be staying at Harrah's on the strip for six nights, leaving crack of dawn Sunday and returning Saturday to get my fill of poker, good food, and other vices. A couple people have requested updates on my play while I'm there, so I'll be posting regular blog updates while I'm there. Win or lose, I'll share.

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Right now, Las Vegas is in a torrential rainstorm. I'd even call it biblical, if it actually kept up that long.

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Weeknight newscast from the NBC affiliate in Las Vegas, NV. Due to extended coverage of the terrorist attacks, there were no commercial breaks.

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Well, the story of my play yesterday was the story of pocket queens--they hated me. I lost $200 on a cash game when I got all-in with pocket queens against pocket fours and a four hit the board for three of a kind--meaning I lost a hand I started a 4 to 1 favorite against. So instead of doubling up to $400, I ended up busting out and walking away.

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I'm leaving. Everything has gone wrong this trip from late flights to a broken room TV and clogged bathtub drain, and yesterday was the worst. I played twice and lost both times in minutes, putting me down another $350. The first time, I twice confused 5000 chips with 500 ones and made unintentional raises (once the chips are bet, you can't take them back) that ended up costing me my entire stack; on the final hand my straight was beaten by a full house. The second time, I made a foolish

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No success to report. Opened with a C-note on craps and lost it pretty quick--it's amazing how unfriendly dice can be at times. Then again, success at that seems rare for me. After that, I gorged on the breakfast buffet, took a four mile walk upstrip towards the Stratosphere and back to walk it off, then walked further to the Aria to see what tournaments they were offering. Nothing that interested me, so I hopped a cab to the Rio for my first WSOP action. The events opened this very week,

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... to the comments on the last Firefly chapter yet. But work is a royal mother-of-a-diamond-dog right now, and I've been coming home late and exhausted night after night, in no mood to do anything. I will get to them this weekend, promise. My vacation can't come soon enough at this point; I'll be off to a week or two in Las Pegasus Vegas to get my fill of poker and the desert after Memorial Day. Who knows, maybe I'll run into Aces Up and Double Down (from Five Star

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The barcast started drinking at HRPC. And we wrote a fic. Here it is.
It's garbage.

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/410932/j-edgar-hoover-in-equestria

-Pencil

...yeah, so that's happening. The Barcast is really doing this. Not this week, this week is an awesome musician called Killscreen, but next week we'll be legit interviewing an MLP Voice Actor. I'm hoping I don't vomit spaghetti on them.
LEARN MORE ABOUT HRPC MONTH HERE:
https://www.fimfiction.net/group/212308/the-barcast/thread/347183/high-roller-pony-con-month-and-special-guest-announcement
I am excited and also terrified.

-Pencil