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Horse I kinda half had in mind for that potential WSOP thingy is currently on the Stars $5K Ft live on Twitch cards up with $120k up top
Last edited by Dice75; 29-07-20, 18:36.
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Originally posted by Dice75 View PostHorse I kinda half had in mind for that potential WSOP thingy is currently on the Stars $5K Ft live on Twitch cards up with $120k up top
https://www.twitch.tv/pokerstars
Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostMeant to add, got some endorphin rush after it.
Was like being on cocaine for the whole evening.
Some digging deep hold with the burn for 450 , thats the great thing about a race or running club, pushes us to excel
Fair play to you both.
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Originally posted by hotspur View PostI am driving to Galway to bring someone to the airport who is emigrating. I'm meeting him at 6pm and have the day clear to get there. Can anyone think of any places of interest to visit on the way?Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by hotspur View PostI am driving to Galway to bring someone to the airport who is emigrating. I'm meeting him at 6pm and have the day clear to get there. Can anyone think of any places of interest to visit on the way?
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Originally posted by Opr View PostSo that is how he is playing it. He just said on stream Pokerstars bought him in as part of his sponsorship deal with them.
3rd for 70k. Nice
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Originally posted by hotspur View Post
I was wondering that he is playing all these $5k tournaments in a row this week and acting like this was life changing money through the pay jumps.
They have had massive overlays during this series as they have been falling well short of the guarantees with other sites being more of a draw for players hosting the WSOP events so I guess it makes more sense than ever to fire as many of their sponsored pros into them as they can if they are going to lose the money anyway.
He seems genuinely thrilled and has been grinding poker forever and as he said himself he has built that stream from nothing and it is very hard work streaming for as long as he does every day while trying to entertain a chat and play poker. He always comes across well too so delighted for him. He is running well in life lately. He is also dating another poker player, Marley Cordero.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
It's clearly a brilliant marketing strategy, in addition to being great for the guy personally, given the coverage it has generated.
I don't have a clue who these Sidemen are but they have a massive, massive following with youtube videos that get near 10m views. They had them playing Spraggy in poker most of them never having played before trying to introduce a whole new generation to poker.
While online poker was dying a death and cash poker certainly is to a large degree, tournaments are absolutely booming and bigger than ever. The numbers playing in the events on GG are massive.Last edited by Opr; 29-07-20, 22:34.
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View PostI see Tyler Cowen still on the UFO train. Trump probably keeping them as a final rabbit in the hat.
Most of the UFO reports in the 50/60s were U2s and other US projects, so it's probably "something" but probably not too exciting.
If there are ET's and if they have landed/crashed on earth, considering the earth is 7/10 water and a couple of million years old why should we be so bullish to assume anything that is recovered is from last week ? From 1940's ?
They have stuff. They have had stuff years. Semi conductors, integrated circuits ?...yeah, we went from tubes and cathodes to digital signals watching 4k netflix in the front room.This too shall pass.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Should be simple to issue allowances to farmers on a secure card that they enter pin code of when buying diesel in a garage. They pay regular price and then a refund transfer is initiated almost immediately to give them their discount providing they are within their annual allowance (allowance cap to avoid fraudulent use). We have a card like that here for health - hundreds of private and regional health insurers, millions of health professionals and pharmacies, tens of millions of health users - and it works like a charm. You normally pay at point of receiving health care and then get the money back in your bank account two days later. Doing the same for a few farmers and a few garages should be a piece of piss.
Tbh banning new diesel cars and seriously jacking up the road tax on old ones would a much easier than pushing this past the ifa. More than likely going to happen soon too.
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Originally posted by BennyHiFi View Post
On the turntable the last few days...
1) CMAT - Another Day (KFC) and/or Rodney (watch with videos)
2) A Certain Ratio - Won't Stop Loving You (w/Denise Johnson who just died)
3) Carl Stone - Panchita ( https://unseenworlds.bandcamp.com/album/baroo )
4) Robert Palmer - Through It All There's You
5) SNFU - Wild World (skate punk Cat Stevens cover, singer just died also)
(Honorary mention for anything Prince from - 1999/Purple Rain/Sign O' The Times, as I'm reading a biography and marvelling at how he did it)
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostHandy thing there - we needed a load of things picked up and brought to dump, recycling, or wherever. There's a website here, that reminds me of nixer.ie back in the day except that its very income tax complaint for French reasons, and maybe fits with things like ionapaul needing a small paintjob done yesterday. You enter whatever task you have to be done and people then bid on it. All their claimed qualifications, e.g. plumbing, have been verified by the website. It's ridic handy to have every type of 'house task thing' on the same website, rather than having to go around working out who you need, plus you have all the reviews to peruse. Currently 380,000 of these small jobs on the website.
Going to add that to the list of 'things that should obviously exist everywhere'.
Have job that needs doing.
Mary from next door says that her brother in law Pat got this guy Tony and he was brilliant, did an unbelievable job.
Call Tony. He says he'll be there next Tuesday morning and the job will cost X.
Arrange to be home Tuesday morning.
11.50am. No sign of Tony.
Call Tony.
Tony doesn't answer.
Leave voicemail.
No call back.
Call Tony again.
Tony answers. Doesn't remember who you are.
You remind him he was supposed to be there that morning to do job, as arranged.
'ahhhhhhh yeah, sorry about that, got caught on another thing. I'll be there tomorrow morning."
Wednesday 3pm, Tony eventually shows up.
Tony does job, after lots of sighing and muttering.
Then claims job will cost 2*X due to unforeseen complications. You remind him he said job would cost X and that he has already wasted a lot of your time.
Tony sighs again and counters with X plus 50%
You ask 'how much for cash?'
'That is the cash price'
You never speak to Mary again."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostHandy thing there - we needed a load of things picked up and brought to dump, recycling, or wherever. There's a website here, that reminds me of nixer.ie back in the day except that its very income tax complaint for French reasons, and maybe fits with things like ionapaul needing a small paintjob done yesterday. You enter whatever task you have to be done and people then bid on it. All their claimed qualifications, e.g. plumbing, have been verified by the website. It's ridic handy to have every type of 'house task thing' on the same website, rather than having to go around working out who you need, plus you have all the reviews to peruse. Currently 380,000 of these small jobs on the website.
Going to add that to the list of 'things that should obviously exist everywhere'.
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Originally posted by Kayroo View Post
That's a rare thing to be asked. Haven't really looked at it in that way in a while. I wrote a couple of answers to this. One was too pretentious (deontological kantianism came up).
That list is much more interesting than a greeting card one. I'm very interested in thoughts on things like altruistic lying (http://www.mesacc.edu/~davpy35701/te...ght-to-lie.pdf) and things like that.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
That looks like the same type of deal. It just seems to lack:
1. The ability to rate, and therefore the ability to know the rating of, the workers. That desire to be a perfect 5 out of 5 is amazingly powerful
2. Smaller jobs - people with a van, people who'll carry a heavy thing down a flight of stairs.
Yeah Bla Bla Cars is excellent limpwhacker. A car sharing thing, for those unaware, but so crazily popular that e.g. to get from Rennes to Paris tomorrow, you'd have maybe a few hundred offerings. All these things seem to be all about the critical mass.
​Now grown to be one of the largest and most profitable companies in France.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostWell thats a handy job: http://www.tradesmen.ie/jobs/plantin...ck-Dublin.html"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hectorjelly View PostDaniel Negreanu had an epic meltdown recently, it's well worth a watch: https://www.cardschat.com/news/danie...e-poker-92470/
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
The Irish system has its charms.
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'That is the cash price'
You never speak to Mary again.
I remember I did a whole load of business with her after that but now its doing my head in I can't remember her name or where exactly the house was... somewhere out near GAB or BrianMc one of those super affluent areasTurning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostI see the orange man has moved to his inevitable next level. Claiming that if he can't win the election then there shouldn't be an election. Its all fun and games but also rather serious. Like I'd say these elections are going to be both violent, and if Trump loses, contested. You'd think the 35% (​​​​​​) economy contraction in the last three months and killing 150,000 people through outright stupidity would be enough, but ain't no stopping him now.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostI see the orange man has moved to his inevitable next level. Claiming that if he can't win the election then there shouldn't be an election. Its all fun and games but also rather serious. Like I'd say these elections are going to be both violent, and if Trump loses, contested. You'd think the 35% (​​​​​​) economy contraction in the last three months and killing 150,000 people through outright stupidity would be enough, but ain't no stopping him now."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostI see the orange man has moved to his inevitable next level. Claiming that if he can't win the election then there shouldn't be an election. Its all fun and games but also rather serious. Like I'd say these elections are going to be both violent, and if Trump loses, contested. You'd think the 35% (​​​​​​) economy contraction in the last three months and killing 150,000 people through outright stupidity would be enough, but ain't no stopping him now.Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by ComradeCollie View Post
Do you really think nobody in the US would have died from Covid under a different administration?
you come flying around a blind corner on your bike at 60 in a 30 zone and go straight into the middle of them
Will:
"If I was going the correct speed I would have hit a good few of them anyway" get you off with the cops when they arrive?
The stupid cunt has caused death and handled the situation as poorly as possible, the rest is deflection!
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Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View Post
If Polk wins it's expected, if he loses Daniel is a legend. Be great for us though. The pair of them are the only people I ever watch.
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Originally posted by ComradeCollie View Post
Do you really think nobody in the US would have died from Covid under a different administration?
Obviously the answer can't be nobody but surely it's a number that is far less than 150k?"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View PostHow likely do people think it is that Trump won't peacefully exit the white house if he loses?"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
"My last action as President is to issue a blanket pardon for myself, for crimes that I may or may not have committed. Or indeed crimes that I may or may not commit in the future.'
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
if a (sane) administration had applied best practice?
Obviously the answer can't be nobody but surely it's a number that is far less than 150k?
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View Post
The press conferences would have been different. But they would have been given and followed the same advice, and they'd have had the same governers and mayors.Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Hillary probably would have bombed Wuhan.
Mrs. Clinton had refused to talk to the president for eight months after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. She resumed talking to her husband only when she phoned him and urged him in the strongest terms to begin bombing Serbia; the president began bombing within 24 hours.
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Originally posted by ComradeCollie View Post
And after 3 years of Hillary you'd probably have more people refusing to wear masks in protest.
Trump made the masks wearing and indeed the whole Covid thing a partisan issue which was fucking insane.No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast.
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