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HoustonHorn

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  1. I'm about done with Tour 10. pretty much every hole I hit it in the water or rough. None of the distances work out. Fuck it. I lose 8 of 10 games and I've gone from 100M to 70M in a day. Complete shit holes quite honestly. Bunkers in the middle of fairways. Crazy shit where the ball doesn't go where the guide says its going and it ends up in the water. Not fun. And I had 3 holes in one on Tour 10 yesterday. I realize they have to add some craziness because of the skill level to make it a challenge, but the holes are just stupid. Most of the holes on the Gokasho course are somewhat reasonable but the other two are simply garbage. </endrant former golfer/wanna be course designer>
  2. T10 is costing me a lot of money. Win a few but lost quite a few more than I've won.
  3. You could always come be a mercenary on our team. 😁 When does next season start? Certainly send me the teams. Not sure if they can check my stats to verify if I'm good enough/play enough but its HoustonHorn on there too. I'm going to make one more push to get more players on our team, but I really only play against players on pretty well established teams and I'm guessing most of those people don't want to switch to a 4 (really 2.5) man team. Do people jump around alot? What's the key to getting them to switch since you can't really chat in the game (which is an AWESOME feature btw). Makes it very enjoyable. If I can't get more players then maybe I'll jump for next season. I can get to 6k pretty easily, especially if I start improving on Tour 10. Last season was 7600 and a lot of that was on tour 8. So playing Tour 9 and 10 exclusively should bump those numbers up some. If I can get better at tournaments I can pick up some more points there too. I've never finished top 50. This was the first time I really tried to study up on the holes and the shots I need to play, but its always difficult to use different clubs and different types of shots than I would normally hit and its so exact that if you miss, you don't get an eagle. Although I did make two albatrosses on the 4th? hole of the Ventura tournament using GC Tommy's method. But 3 pars on the first nine holes of the opening round did me in. -9 on the front, -13 on the back. Finished in about 80th place on Pro. But I should have easily been 25 under in that round if I didn't screw up trying to make the hole in one or the eagle. Left myself in a few bad spots. Not sure if -25 would have been enough though. It would be nice if you could just play the courses instead of the 1 on 1s. Would help to get comfortable with the shots. Maybe you can do that on Facebook, I don't know. On the wind/elevation, once you play the holes enough, you can get pretty good at winging it, especially on the shootouts where you know if its downhill the wind is going to affect the shot more. But I definitely hole out from the fairway a lot more than I used to. Had 2 hole in ones today and a couple of other long iron hole outs and one other with the Sniper. For me, the wind charts make a big difference, but damn if I don't have to rush a lot of shots at the end.
  4. fuck me. That's a lot of games. I've got a little less than 3200 games. Win at about 52-53%. Finally started playing Tour 10 (because I was having a shit day on Tour 9 so why not). A couple rough holes to start, but then I made a hole-in-one to win a shootout. Won a couple more since then. The elevation is the toughest thing to get down for adjustments to where the ball is going to land. Doesn't help that "Perfect" is eluding me for the most part. Crazy how there are days you can't miss and other days you can't hit it. I won 11 in a row yesterday. Lost my first 6 or 7 today. I need to figure out what I'm going to do as far as a team. We have 3 other guys. The president who puts up about 700 points and then a relative beginner that may get a couple hundred. I put up 7600 last season and probably will do about the same this season. The last guy might toss in 50-100 points if we're lucky. We're at Pro 2 right now so its going to start getting tough to keep moving up. But there's no pressure to play, so that's a good thing. Not sure I want to get in a hyper-competitive team. On the flip side, I'm far and away the best player on our team, play tours the other guys don't, and with clubs/balls the other guys don't. So I'm basically learning on the fly. Would be nice to have a team that has a lot of knowledge to help out with clubs, wind/elevation, best approaches to holes, etc. Especially as I start playing 3,000 plus players all the time in Tour 10 and beyond. Other than playing against someone on a team, there doesn't appear to be a way to search teams. Maybe FB? I don't know.
  5. yep sorry, on the Facers. Which sucks, but I'll take what I can get. Should be pretty cool.
  6. Members of the Gourds and many others putting on a "house" show on Saturday the 25th at 7pm. James McMurtry, Kelly Willis/Bruce Robison and lots of others as well.
  7. There are still times i don't get a shot off trying to get the rings correct. Infrequent, but it really takes some getting used to. It cost me a lot of games at first but it makes a difference. I don't have that many games so I imagine the feel continues to get better. Finished 66th in masters 3. Not relegated but until I can play tours 11 and 12 is not worth sweating over. Fun game. Not sure what I'm going to do about a clan. We've only got a couple players and I'm really the one generating 80% of the points. We're pro2 currently. I'll probably be looking to change. How is your team doing?
  8. A little Pinkerton's for lunch.
  9. Took a while but I'm pretty good at Tour 9 now and fully maxed out. Opened up Tour 11 - $25M bonus which was nice. I've played probably 10 matches in Tour 10 and its always tough to start a new tour because you aren't comfortable with the courses. In any event, I've probably won 3 of 10. In any event, working to build up my bankroll so I can afford to learn Tour 10. Have about $75M now so probably enough, but trying to get to $100M because I know its going to be rough at the start. Playing Master III now and I've got about $250M and I'm not in the top 60. Obviously those guys at the top are playing the higher level tours to get into the billions/tens of billions. There are some ridiculous players in those Tours. I can usually hold my own, but its pretty clear I'm way outclassed by some of those guys when they are dunking it with 13+mph winds. Anyways, Tour 9 is pretty comfortable and I'm pretty solid at the shootouts so I can win >50%. Still a lot of good players though and anything more than 2yds on the shootouts has a decent chance of losing. Looking to take the step to Tour 10 soon. The biggest help for improvement was learning the wind charts, I was guessing up through most of Tour 8 and lost a lot of shootouts because I misjudged. Now that I understand the ring system, elevation, etc., I am much more consistent. I watch a fair amount of play-throughs on YouTube to get tips, especially for the tournaments. The problem is its tough to change "how" I play or with what clubs and my performance in those is mixed. Most I win or finish top 5 in the qualifier, then sometimes I make it to the final round, sometimes I don't. It's crazy how exact the top guys are in setting up each shot to shoot those scores. Not sure I'll get there. Still an addictive game, just not looking forward to the increase in losses in Tour 10 when I make the jump.
  10. I don't know about the handle on the pocket knives but I've had a set of the Lagoule steak knives for 16 years and they are fucking awesome.
  11. Good idea on the extensions. I have pretty large hands, so I can definitely use them.
  12. where is everybody buying bullets these days?
  13. All good suggestions. Getting two red ryders for some backyard plinking. Leaning towards a Savage Rascal for the next step up. Also picked something up for myself.
  14. Looking to get something to teach my kids about guns and how to shoot. Thinking either a Ruger Bearcat or Sr22. Thoughts or suggestions? 10 and 12 years old.
  15. Maxed out through 8, working on 9. I think I got up to about 2818. Only played a couple matches in 10. Won one, lost one, so I'm at 0. Crazy how good some players are though. Some crazy holes on 9 and 10 as well. Since I'm relatively new to them, I always hope the other player goes first on holes I haven't seen before. At least playing the higher tours makes it easier to move up. I finished 2nd a couple weeks ago with 70+M and lost by over a billion $. Damn game is addictive.
  16. I'm a relative novice...seems a triple leveraged ETF is pretty much a daily play. That's a little more short-term than I was thinking. Was thinking next 1-3 month timeframe as we "hopefully" move past the CV panic. Any stocks/funds that have been beaten up due to the uncertainty, but likely aren't impacted significantly by the CV so should bounce back quickly.
  17. Looks a lot like Bella. The only thing is the extremely long legs.
  18. So any suggestions on a stock or 3 to pick up now? I have a little play money, so don't mind risky with high upside. Not planning on holding for long.
  19. If anyone wants TexMex out in Katy, a friend of ours owns/runs Pablos. Really great guy and they have really good food. Pork Enchiladas are fantastic. https://pablosmexkitchen.com
  20. She has a big chest and long legs. Pretty small head. Border collie of some type. Definitely could be collie/whippet.
  21. Got a new mutt pup a couple months ago. Was told it was some sort of Australian Shepherd mix. She definitely had boxer markings and hops, but clearly not boxer face now that her snout has grown. I don't know much about dogs. So no idea what kind of mix. Not seeing much Australian Shepherd Really long legs. Thoughts?
  22. Golf http:// https://bicyclecards.com/how-to-play/six-card-golf/ Also, jokers are 0. Fun game and good for kids 8-9+ and adults. Kids like Trash and Speed. They don't really have any strategy so get boring pretty quickly. Golf is great though. Mind is an interesting game.
  23. Gut in my office building (not my company) died yesterday after experiencing flu-type symptoms. No update today whether or not it was CV. He'd been to 4 different floors in the building. Luckily not our floor but definitely added some fear around the office.
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