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Tennis Talk vol 31.1 (US Open)
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n88uk, slightly changing the subject, but why did you tone down your poker playing btw?
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n88 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xl1miIr-EM
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edy, how about you? are you a fan of Sloane?
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Black Friday affected me badly (we've discussed this in the past), and games are much tougher online than they used to be, tougher games = smaller edges = more of a grind. And poker is a real grind online if you are playing like 12 hours a day.
Hard to find the constant action live locally, and pace is quite slow live, but I do enjoy playing live, and would like to play more, but generally only play now if someone asks me, just because realistically to get good action I've got to drive an hour and a half into central London. |
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what's Black Friday again? a link will do if it's a long thing to explain.
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Maybe Sloane shouldn't have been such a mug years ago.
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something to do with some poker site going bust and loads of people losing their money off it?
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Sloane seems to be very nice.
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When online poker was shut down in the US. Sites were frozen and funds were tied up for years in many cases because some sites themselves were being massively mismanaged and didn't have all player funds. Eventually rescued by PokerStars who were one of the few doing it properly, but PokerStars itself has gone massively downhill since it got taken over a few years ago.
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Not downhill in terms of dodgy, just direction of the company is sh*t.
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I'm a fan of everybody who is nice.
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Sloane didn't come across very nice, and I still don't partic like her personality. Her on court attitude used to be dreadful too, admittedly that has improved.
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That's so disrespectful
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n88uk, dude, Sloane comes across super nice. Like, the nicest.
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Nadal is 9-1 in sets against Anderson, only one he dropped was indoors Paris, unless I'm mistaken I can't even remember Nadal ever winning a tournament indoors, he's definitely never won World Tour Finals. Actually he won old Madrid indoors but think that's it.
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and that was well over a decade ago
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No Edy, those were before the takeover. They were taken over in like 2014.
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Nadal 1 indoor tournament win is yer Madrid indoors.
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Was last night the start of the Sloane Stephens era?
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yes
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Probably not. We've had the start of about 20 new eras in the last 3 years.
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or was last night the start of the Madison Keys era?
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The revival of Slam Stephens
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aka "hey, I like your forehand" era.
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Svitolina should have beaten Keys. Just lacked it when it matters.
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And for that matter Sevastova should have beaten Stephens but bottled it.
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Svitolina seems to be prone to bottlign it on the biggest stage.
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Realistically Stephens will probably go back to losing to random no-names in slams after this.
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To people like Larsson, Qiang Wang or Pironkova.
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Yer she defo has a block of some kind. Another one who doesn't play her best at slams. Hard to really remember any defining match for her at slams. The Halep match should have been it, but she choked that of course.
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decided to look it up to double check, apparently Nadal's won 2 indoor tournament, that one in 2005 and Brazil Open 2013, forgot about the period they went from outdoors to indoors, now back to outdoors, both on clay though.
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Svitolina just didn't bring it against Keys, hard to exactly put your finger on it, but she lacked intensity all night, and general absolute belief and fight, it was a weird performance, because it was just so flat for such a big match, and she still was on verge of winning.
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AR-GEN-TINA! AR-GEN-TINA!
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indoor clay doesn't count.
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and are you a fan of hers, edy?