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Emotional feelings, niggah wat? by mnj, September 17

I haven't been dating/seeing anyone for quite a while. It wasn't really a conscious decision but maybe the mix of having no real viable options + contemplation about views on love, relationships.

Anyway I met a new friend, and she is so beautiful, I am finding myself drawn to her. I have been having a blast with her, and have taken her on a few play dates, like driving into the country and looking at the stars with no kissing but hand holding. I don't know if she likes me more than friends.

Anyway earlier this week I saw her talking to some other guys, and I got kind of ridiculously jealous and felt really stupid for feeling this way. I didn't enjoy the way I was feeling because it's so stupid. Maybe stupider than this post. Anyway I adjusted by cutting my time with her.

I'm just confused as to what to do and want to just save myself any future embarrassment or heartache

Sigh..this is prob the gayest post ever

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PLOLOLOL! by gawdawaful, September 17

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Sunday Fun Day! by player999, September 17

NOT

$700 HU WCOOP 30 left:

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Sunday 500:
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Standard shit. But then the real bullshit begins:

$215 HU 9 left:
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$1050 WCOOP 2nd chance:
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$1050 WCOOP 2nd chance HU:
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$2100 WCOOP near the bubble:
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$215 WCOOP 100 left out of 9000:
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/wrists

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Maximus Finals by NeillyJQ, September 17

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Cannabis Cures Cancer by k2o4, September 16

DOES MARIJUANA CAUSE CANCER? RESEARCH SAYS MARIJUANA FIGHTS CANCER
by Lisa Garber

Does marijuana cause cancer? The censorship-happy government’s war on marijuana may be sorely misplaced, especially when considering all the other issues in need of focus. Dr. Sean McAllister of the Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco has spent years researching cannabidiol, a cannabinoid found in cannabis, the plant that flowers marijuana. “Cannabidiol offers hope of a non-toxic therapy that could treat aggressive forms of cancer without any of the painful side effects of chemotherapy,” he says.

You might remember Cash Hyde, the 3-year-old boy from Montana diagnosed with brain cancer but who beat it with his father Mike’s help and marijuana oil. Well, Hyde’s case isn’t the only one revealing the positive relationship between marijuana and cancer.

Does Marijuana Cause Cancer? THC as Therapy

In 1998, Cristina Sanchez of Complutense University in Madrid reported in a European biochemistry journal that THC—the famed psychoactive component in marijuana—“induces apoptosis [cell death] in C6 glioma cells,” which are a type of brain cancer.

Lead author of another study and Harvard University researcher Anju Preet says, “THC can have a potential therapeutic role.” His findings, presented in a 2007 American Association for Cancer Research in Los Angeles, showed that THC has a direct antitumoral effect.

THC’s First Human Trial

The first clinical trial studying THC’s antitumoral effect on humans was conducted by Manuel Guzman and his team of Spanish scientists. Guzman administered THC to nine patients who had not responded to traditional brain cancer therapies for the study. As published in a 2006 issue of the British Journal of Pharmacology, tumor cell proliferation reduced in response to THC administration through a catheter – showing the medical benefits of marijuana.

THC and the Lungs

Another Harvard study reports that THC slows lung cancer progress. Moreover, unlike chemotherapy which damages all cells—healthy or cancerous—THC specifically destroyed tumoral cells without harming healthy ones.

In another study published in the Journal of American Medical Association, spanning from 1985 to 2006, over 5,000 men and women smoked about one joint daily for seven years. Co-author Stefan Kertesz found that subjects, rather than having damaged lungs, showed increases in lung air flow rates. Surprising findings indeed.

Cannabidiol and Breast Cancer

With backing from the National Institute of Health, Dr. Sean McAllister conducted a study and found that cannabidiol inhibited breast cancer cell proliferation, metastasis, and tumor growth.

McAllister researched cancer’s relationship to the ID-1 gene—a protein active during embryonic development but, in healthy subjects, turns and stays off. In the case of breast cancer patients, the gene turns back on, which causes malignant cells to metastasize. In the journal Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, McAllister wrote that cannabidiol switches off the gene’s expression.

McAllister found that cannabidiol can even work alongside standard chemotherapy treatments by performing synergistically with pharmaceuticals. This means that maximum, toxic doses don’t have to be administered.

Despite accusations that marijuana smoking can compromise the immune system, mountains of research indicate that the plant has more to offer than a high. More studies are undoubtedly in the works.

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In this research, Manuel Guzman located in Madrid, Spain discovered that cannabinoids substantially inhibit the growth of tumors in a variety of lab animals. In the study he also found that not one of these tested animals endured any kind of side effects seen in many similar chemotherapy treatments.

If all of the research doesn’t appeal to you, then maybe the 2,500 total studied patients throughout these 37 controlled studies may. None of the patients reported any kind of adverse side effects from the use of THC and based medication – further adding to the benefits of medical marijuana and strengthening the positive connection between marijuana and cancer.

So, does marijuana cause cancer, or does it fight cancer?

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Maximus Day 6 by NeillyJQ, September 16

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potential downsides of a poker lifestyle by Ket, September 15

This post by RiKD got me thinking about a few things, I was going to write a reply in the thread it's from but thought it's a worthy discussion in its own right and deserves its own post.

On September 15 2012 10:33 RiKD wrote:
One thing to consider is poker can be pretty damaging to other facets of life and development.

Getting to the point:
[other text that was getting to the point in the thread but not the point here]

I'd love to hear some more thoughts from RiKD, and anyone else who wants to join the discussion, on how poker can be damaging to other facets of life and development. It would be good to get the perspectives of current other professional poker players, but actually especially valuable to get the perspective of guys like RiKD who have seen both sides of the fence. Guys who used to live the poker grinding freedom lifestyle and are now following different, more traditional paths, and so have seen both sides of the fence.

I have my own thoughts which I'll outline below, but do add to the discussion and let me know if you see it the same way, or where your perspectives vary, and especially new ideas I haven't been able to consider as someone who's only seen this side of the fence.

When you get strongly interested in poker (a period that i think pretty much all players that manage to become successful experience at some point) and the whole process of playing and learning and improving, you find you become addicted to this creative process and want to invest 100% of your limited mental energy+focus every day on the process. Personal growth generally happens as a result of mental energy/focus being invested in something challenging, and to limit the avenues you invest your mental energy in is to limit the avenues in which you'll grow. By investing only in poker you'll only grow in the areas of risk management, rational decision making, mental discipline and being able to play card games well (obviously). Breadth of experience will be sacrificed for great depth in one limited area, which can have all sorts of suboptimal consequences on personal development and therefore ultimately, happiness and quality of life (anyone disagree with this leap of logic?).

In my experience both personally and from talking to several other poker playing friends, a very common facet of life that poker brings negative consequences to is social development. As poker is inherently a very isolated profession, much more effort needs to be made to rectify the default situation than for someone in a traditional job who spends large parts of his work life interacting with colleagues, and social groups are easily and conveniently formed from the workplace. Generally, overcoming any kind of life-inertia like this takes some conceited effort and will, and so not everyone will do it. The problem can be especially compounded by the possibility that if the dedicated poker player is investing 100% of his mental energy into getting better at poker and/or trying to make more money, and some mental energy is required to overcome inertia, it's unlikely to happen if there isn't any left. Your most likely social group (the one for which the least amount of energy invested in overcoming inertia is required) as a poker player is other poker players, and so your perspectives and circle all become limited, which limits your potential avenues for growth, development and discovery (going back to the idea of breadth of experience being a positive).

I believe that while professional poker does present these challenges and can bring these pitfalls, it's up to the individual player to overcome the inertia of the default situation playing poker for a living puts you in with an investment of energy and will. This is quite a difficult thing to do generally, and that's why you see a lot of unhappy professional poker players and a lot of obese people to name another example. Since this is just some stream of consciousness thoughts to open discussion, I won't bother to write any sort of tidy conclusion beyond this and instead hope the discussion starts flowing from here

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Hello TL by Enigma, September 15

Been lurkin on this site for almost 4 years now. I guess I feel like I owe the cummunity some content. I am a Limit holdem player and will try to post my thoughtprocess and progress as I go.
I have been playing for almost 10 years in what I call a part-time professional capacity. I am moderately successful but have lately been very driven to perfect my game. Join me on tracking my progress.

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Maximus Day 5 by NeillyJQ, September 14

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BOOOOOM, back to poker life by Joeingram1, September 13

Was waiting till I got back on the grind till I posted my summer blog

Basically started 3 day drive home to Vancouver, fly to Vegas, Win bunch at 50/100 plo and take bobbys room shot and profit, fly to San Diego for a few days, Fly to Ibiza for 1.2 weeks and proceed to fall in love with raging/drugs/edm/potentially a person, fly to Barcelona with group I met in Ibiza, fly to Belgium for Tomorrowland which was one of sickest things I ever been to in my life as well, fly to Malta to visit ze german TimStone and bigasiga, get convinced by stinger to fly back home to Chicago for Lollapolooza, Rage hardddd there and meet a crew of people who are into staying awake until 8am and raging crazy style, decide to go out with them for a few weekends in a row and wake up questioning my life lol, debate investing in a nightclub, book place for 3 weeks in Vancouver with stinger instead, and leads to this graph of being back these first 3 days. Now I HAVE to write the blogs for this summer because its some crazyyyy shit

http://i.imgur.com/0Nple.jpg

BOOOM

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Looking for a math guy by SemPeR, September 13

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f drawer is stuck by bigredhoss, September 13

been trying to get eating utensils out of my kitchen drawer but there's a stack of plastic measuring cups that gets stuck against the end part where the wood material hands down a bit lower every time i try to open it (there's a bunch of crap behind the cups that prevents me from moving them back to get unstuck). i tried jamming it a little but i'm afraid the cups will break b/c they're plastic. anyway pretty bummed, i've been to starbucks twice today because i cant get it open.
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@ SWEDISH DUDES by nolan, September 13

IS THIS JAM AWESOME?

MAYBE OLD TO YOU BUT IM PRETTY SURE SWEDEN IS THE NUTS.

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biceps the same girth as my waist by 2c0ntent, September 12

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Pls help by r0mx0, September 12

Hey , got coaching but cant send money to him , pls help i ll send you stars $ and you send to paypal or MB , thnx a lot

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Maximus Day 4 by NeillyJQ, September 12

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a win by Target-x17, September 11

cha won my fav tourny again got some wcoop money
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tablets suck... by whamm!, September 11

I wish they would make good hybrid tablet/laptops. Ive tried ipad and sold it, now using a droid tablet and its not any better. Laptops are too heavy and battery life is bad. Why did they invent these things anyway lol

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Paypal for Moneybookers by Spitfiree, September 11

Giving 36eu @ paypal for 35eu @ moneybookers/PS ill send first np pm

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maximus day 3 by NeillyJQ, September 11

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