Has poker ruined my christmas?

[a500lbgorilla]

So my mother called me today and told me I needed to "hit her up with yo x-mas list, bitch!" (She thinks she's hip) Being young and still believing whole-heartidly in Santa, I quickly sat down to put my list together and heres what I got:

1) Uh... shit... 24 season 3?

I've been able to just buy everything I wanted (not much) with my fat online bankroll and now I can't truely exploit xmas for what it's worth!

What am I to do!?

-'rilla

[Xianti]

You got all the home poker gear you want?

[a500lbgorilla]

Are you trying to pimp me FTR gear? Cuz I already got some for free .

Yah, I've got it all. (What more is there than chips, a home made table and a few decks?)

I need ideas people! I've got a deadline to meet.

-'rilla

[Xianti]

Do you have a fancy hinged-lid wooden card box for your Kem cards?

[a500lbgorilla]

Yes and hired dealers.

-'rilla

[DaNutsInYoEye]

You can always add to you poker library.

[Xianti]

Wow. Can I come play poker at your house, 'rilla?

[xbones]

What price range are you looking for?

[DavSimon]

Here is my list - see a common theme:


Book: “Super System 2” by Doyle Brunson


Xbox Game: “Fight Club”


Xbox Game: “Outlaw Golf 2”


WPT Baseball Cap


WPT Black Polo (XL)


Flop Turn River T-shirt (XL}


“ALL – IN” Magazine Subscription

[dar103]

Here's what came to my mind:

A 500 chip high quality wooden case. Not sure what you use for your chips, but a lot nicer to look at then those cheap aluminum cases that most of us probably start out with.

Here's one example I found. (I could care less if you buy this particular case. Just using it for an example cause I have a bookmark to 5star.)

http://www.5stardeal.com/deals/10Exp...tCode=10-PC500

[BoondockSaint]

Xbox Game: “Fight Club”

Do not get this game. Every review Ive seen has been horrible. Like 2 or 3 out of 10 everywhere. I worship the movie but the game sucks.

[LeFou]

“ALL – IN” Magazine Subscription

What's that? Better than Cardplayer? what's the difference?

Also did anyone else reload/deposit for the bonus cardplayer subscription from pokerroom and not get it?

[DavSimon]

“ALL – IN” Magazine Subscription

What's that? Better than Cardplayer? what's the difference?

Also did anyone else reload/deposit for the bonus cardplayer subscription from pokerroom and not get it?

I'm not sure how it stacks up to Card Player....I got an offer through amazon - they noticed that I had purchased several poker books and sent me an advertisment for this "new" magazine. I figured it would be a good x-mas present, if it sucks - I didn't spent any of my money on it

I have not used the cardplayer bonus on Poker Room...got my first issue after I already had an account there - so I can't answer that question either- sorry.

[a500lbgorilla]

A new spiffy poker case for my tri-colored chips. Sounds excellent.

I'm gonna look into that mag you were talking about.

Thanks boys,

-'rilla

[!Luck]

Well how about new and improved moniter for your computer? You know hook up like a 23 inch and you can have 8 games going at once I personally like watches, i know may seem a bit odd but eh you wanted suggestions and there it is.

[a500lbgorilla]

A new monitor!

!luck! You've saved christmas!

Now i get to spend my weekend looking for a new monitor instead of studying for all my tests. What a wonderful world.

-'rilla

[BoondockSaint]

1) Uh... shit... 24 season 3

Man that is my new favorite show. I had never watched it before and my brother let me borrow his season 1(of course the mofo left disc 6 in his ps2 and he lives 3 hours away) and I watched the first 12 episodes straight through the first day.

[a500lbgorilla]

Yah, it's fuggin sweet but I can't watch it on TV. I tried for season 1 but kept missing episodes and wanting more when i saw 1. So I boycott them and get the dvd set.

Awesome

-'rilla

[DavSimon]

Yah, it's fuggin sweet but I can't watch it on TV. I tried for season 1 but kept missing episodes and wanting more when i saw 1. So I boycott them and get the dvd set.

Awesome

-'rilla

Now that is useful information! Perfect christmas gift idea: TIVO
I have 3 of them - couldnt live without it actually (yes it is a sickness) Click get season pass for your favorite shows.....and voila! - they are waiting for you whenever you are ready to watch them.

[BoondockSaint]

Now that is useful information! Perfect christmas gift idea: TIVO
I have 3 of them - couldnt live without it actually (yes it is a sickness) Click get season pass for your favorite shows.....and voila! - they are waiting for you whenever you are ready to watch them.

Are yours modded or just standard retail versions?

[Humphrind]

I have a DVR from my cable company (Time Warner) and it's just as good as any Tivo.

But I have to say that once you have it, it's tough to go without. (people that can't fast forward through commercials confuse me)

[DavSimon]

My first Tivo (about 4 years old) was a 14 hour stand alone unit - It is moded to 60 hours. The other two are DirecTivos and are not moded - I am considering selling 1 of the Directivos and my Samsung HD receiver to buy a moded HD Tivo with 300 hours SD recording capacity (not sure how much HD that gives you)....$1400 is pretty steep for the HD Tivo + mod....may even be more now they are pretty hard to find.
Do you have a moded Tivo?

[BoondockSaint]

Do you have a moded Tivo?

Nope but I have been thinking about doing one for awhile. I have 2 modded xboxs one with a 250 gig in it and the other a 200 and have done 2 other installs for my friends soldering in their modchips for em and getting the dashboard and all the apps they need. Did you mod your tivo yourself. Is it pretty simple? Do you have to put a chip in or anything is it all software stuff once you put in the bigger drive? I had a guide around here on my comp at one time or another but never checked it because I had other projects going on at the time.

I also have a tivo prog type thing on my computer and have about 800 gigs total storage between all my drives so I guess I really dont need one. It doesn't pick up HD though which I would like to have since I watch all my stuff on a 125" projector screen now and HD signals look lots lots nicer than the basic shit you get from direct tv or whatever.

[LeFou]

You know hook up like a 23 inch and you can have 8 games going at once

Dude I want to take over an IMAX theater and put 4,385 games up at a time!

$45 a minute!! at .01/.02 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[elanto]

They dont have TIVO in colombia

You should get a new pc from allienware :P and maybe directTv or somthing like that, I would personally get a new and improved pc


-anto

[DavSimon]

Is it pretty simple?

If you are familiar with changing hard drives in computers (it is clear you are) it is a snap. When I did mine you had to use a program called "bless tivo" - it was a little tricky, but not too hard....much easier on a virgin unactivated Tivo. Anyway, there is no soldering required and the new program supposedly has a GUI now and is easy to use - they actually have slick hard drive mounting kits to make it even easier.

[BoondockSaint]

they actually have slick hard drive mounting kits to make it even easier.

Yep I have seen these on a show called the screen savers on techtv which is now g4techtv. There are 2 dudes that started a tivo/replay tv type thing business where all they do is mod em and sell kits and stuff. They have em with dual 300 gig drives on hdtv models. Man that would be sweet. They are expensive as hell but it would be sweet to have one. Thanks for the info

[a500lbgorilla]

Give me my thread back!

TiVo sounds nice but I'm down at college a lot and TV isn't really a big part of my day. Would be nice during the breaks though.

-'rilla

[BoondockSaint]

K one thing I highly recommend is the shield season 2. I have never seen one and only like half of 3 but season 2 is awesome as hell. Youll like it if you like 24. I also like Oz Season 1 and havent seen the others yet. Lets see another thing that is phat is the nintendo DS handheld that you can play in class. Also let me see let me see - how about a cute little puppy.

[astrodon]

Well how about new and improved moniter for your computer? You know hook up like a 23 inch and you can have 8 games going at once I personally like watches, i know may seem a bit odd but eh you wanted suggestions and there it is.

How about dual 19's? That's what I use...