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  1. Yep, that's about right. Had one go out a few weeks ago. Guy came out and found no pressure in the system. Repeated over and over it would be $6k just for the coil and installation would be a few thousand so I should just get a new system. I found the part for $600 on line. Got quotes from $6k to $23k for complete replacement. Went ahead and spent $4k on getting the coil replaced. Lowest price was at alamoaustinair.com , they seemed nice and not as shady as the other places. The 6k was after some discounts that are probably no longer available as they were trying to keep their crew busy. After I got all the quotes my wife somehow remembered her friends dad owns an AC place so I went with them for the repair and they did a good job. Arrow is the name of that company.
  2. A few months before I got on the Baton Rouge they pulled into some shithole in the Caribbean. 2/3 of the crew were off the boat getting drunk when a storm approached that the captain decided he'd rather be under the ocean for rather than tied up to a shitty pier. So they ran around the island getting everyone, missed several and got ready to head out. Watch stations were determined in a "how much have you drank" draft. How much have you had? 3 beers? take AEA. 8 long island iced teas? go to bed. 7 beers? phone talker in maneuvering.
  3. We'd always joke about the dive/surface ratio on the boat. There was one chief who early in his career was on a boat with a guy who had been assigned to both the Scorpion and Thresher, the only two nuclear boats the US Navy has lost. He happened to be on leave when they each went down. He said when they would be figuring out how to fix something or were talking about some system the guy would walk by and say "That's just like the Scorpian's" or "There's only two boats in the navy that have that layout, the Thresher and the Scorpion"
  4. All you people talking about how many dives did it do, that's not really important. What's important is you keep your dive/surface ratio at 100%.
  5. If you decide to total out the car just put an ad on craigslist and list it as totaled and price it at $500. You'll get 3-5 junkyards to answer the ad and they will all say if you don't sell it for $500 I'll give you $300. They will bring a wrecker and it will be gone in no time.
  6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa-class_submarine
  7. Who has more body mass left, those guys or the sub passengers?
  8. It’s a jumbo fisher price dumpster fire
  9. Ocean is pretty quiet down deep. we picked up a Russian boat off the coast of Africa when we were just off the coast of Virginia.
  10. Had a guy with a Slavic accent across the poker table from me Monday. I managed to not say anything. I did hear a guy on Sunday say something to the affect of “bunch of Russians were laughing it up last night at x, acting like their country isn’t at war”. He wanted to kill them.
  11. My wsop experience is in the same ballpark as my theory about the sub
  12. I was thinking about what the worst thing that could happen, what if a pinhole leak sprung, shooting a 5000psi water jet through someone’s chest, causing them to keel over, causing the jet to cut them in half, revealing a still beating heart, spraying guts all over the inside, then slowly filling and pressurizing the craft, killing everyone over the next hour or so while they are swimming in someone’s guts.
  13. In vegas playing poker so just now catching up on this thread. This is a great video and he has many of the same questions I did. And yes, he is strait out of central casting for a sonar operator. Looks just like our entire sonar room.
  14. las Vegas construction coming along
  15. Bad news finished 19th out of 90, top 11 got paid good news, no longer hungry
  16. Came downtown to play in golden nugget tournament, won $175 playing craps waiting for the tournament so things are looking up
  17. Well that sucked. Had 2 pair and second nut low and other guy had nut low and bigger two pair. Then got all in with a2256, him akt93 flop k83, turn and river both big and I’m out.
  18. New day new table. I’m the short stack at the table but no one has much more than 100k
  19. We’ll fuck me. I had KsQd.
  20. Playing in the PLO8/limit O8/BigO tournament, $1500 buy in, 25k starting stack. Started off hot as hell, won the first 5 hands and went up about 10k in chips. Then proceeded to go card dead. Went all the way down to around 10k. Had AKT52, raised pre flop, 1 caller, flop K94. I pot, he thinks for a bit and jams. I call all in. He's got AQ542. Turn 6 river 6. Boom double up with a pair of kings. Up to 20k. A few hands later As3s58K, raise pre flop and get 4 callers. Flop is T5s2s. I pot, get repot, all-in, all-in, I call, 4 way all in. Turn 2, river A. I get up to walk away. First guy picks up his hand and turns it over and mucks it. I look over and see the other two guys each have a couple of low cards, figure I'm fucked. Look closer and they have 57 and 56. Boom 83 for the low. Double up again to 40k. Really hated the table. Two huge stacks at the end that were playing big stack poker. Was just waiting to pick them off and I never got the cards to do so. Whittle down to around 25k, get KdQsJdTs8. Raise pre flop, one caller. Flop Qs9x5s, I raise, he jams, I call. He's got aces. Turn J, river Ks. I'm trying to figure out if I win or not, look over at his hand As with two black cards one of them being a ten. First thought, fuck he got broadway. Then the chinese dude next to me says "He's got a frush". Look at the ace of spades again, thinking I'm fucked, then realize his other black cards are clubs. So I say "Yes, I got a frush!", realizing 10 seconds later I was supposed to say "what the fucks a frush" One table over James Woods is playing Our table ends up breaking and I get moved to a new table. I'm in the 4 seat, the 6 and 7 seats have huge stacks and are both super aggressive. I get to see a few hands of theirs and realize they don't have the nuts every time and have called light when pushed back into. Finally get a few hands with the big stacks. Get AdKd523, flop 8d74d. Bingo! Big stack pots, I repot, we get all in. Look over and he has AQ83x. Turn diamond, river blank, boom doubled up to 40k. Few hands later get Ah7hKQJ against same big stack. Flop Th9d3h. I bet, he calls. Turn 9H. Yeeaaaah Fuck. I check, he checks. River Qs. I bet 11k, he thinks for a while, moves his had toward the muck a few times, I'm expecting all in jam, finally he starts grabbing for chips and just calls, I show my Ah7h and he mucks. Not really sure what I do there if he jams over the top, I think I call based on his hand movements of wanting to muck and the fact every other time he had the nuts he insta jammed. Boom, up to 60k. Notice Mike Matasow a table over: He had been pretty quiet. Guy at table to the left of the picture says something to him and they start jawing back and forth. Guy at our table says "go get em Alan". I ask and sure enough it was Allen "Chainsaw" Kessler. Guy to my left gets knocked out and is replaced by a 50ish dude. Guy to my right gets knocked out, replaced by some guy. New guy in 3 seat says "Not very often I get to play against the guy who taught me everything about split pot games. I turn to guy on my left and ask if he's kinda a big deal. He says his name is Mark he's no one of importance. A few hands later I ask his last name and He says Gregorich. Go look him up https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=4170 Well fuck me. At least he has a short stack. I end up not playing a hand with him. He went from $25k-$6k. Then they announced 3 hands left in the night, he says he's going out or up, then managed to win 2 big pots in a row and now is at 35k. Guy to my right sees me looking him up and tells me he's pretty well known as one of the best split pot players in the world. So for the first time in my life I got to bag up chips. I'm around 50k with average stack around 80k. Big names that I outlasted include Sam Farha Todd Brunson Chin Rheem Nick Shulman Daniel Negreanu Veronica Brill Current stacks here https://www.wsop.com/tournaments/chipcounts/?aid=2&grid=5219&tid=21710&dayof=217101&rr=-1&curpage=2
  21. Haha no. but about half the dealers hadn’t dealt much split pot games. The players were constantly having to help. 1400 runners I finished around 600. Could not win a big hand after the above. Won a lot of small pots but could never win the big ones
  22. Playing big o tourney, $1500 entry. Dealt 238jj, 2 hearts, 4 callers, flop a58, two hearts. Bet $500, 2 callers. Turn J, bet $2500, 2 callers, River J, bet $5k, next guy raises, other guy calls, I go all in, call call. One guy has 5523, other 23 so I end up with 2/3 of the pot. Starting stack $25k, I have $40, 1 hour in.
  23. Also, don't get in a cab or uber anywhere around the strip. Holy shit is traffic awful with the repaving. Got stuck behind MGM about 50 cars deep at a light that 0-2 cars got through each cycle. I got out and walked to the hotel. Don't stay at the Polo towers. Construction all around and have to walk a lot to get to strip.
  24. Here now for the wsop I bought blackjack news for the trip. In addition to Ellis Island best rules with <$25 tables: Downtown: California El Cortez Freemont Plaza near strip: Gold Coast Orleans Palace Station south point tropicana
  25. good start. Bought in for $300, lost it, $300 more, down to $100, added $200 on, was down to $150, ran it up to $1400, cashed out at $1088. Net profit of $288 saw Phil helmuth on the way out and with a win like that I had a meal fit for a king
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