Button ante was ruled out quite simply because in poker you can have a dead button but never have a dead big blind.

people have said this to me, but you can have a hand with no small blind and nobody bats an eyelid. So why can't you just have no ante on the hands where the sb bust in the hand directly before.?

wp Doobs!

The main thing I hate about BB ante is that when stacks are getting a little shorter and tables are breaking it becomes a lottery whether you end up paying two BBS when you move, or you could get lucky and get basically a free orbit. If you have a stack of let's say 10bb then that becomes a massive sweat. That is why I prefer button ante, but I think button ante isn't a thing anymore and for some reason bb ante won. I think of button ante as betamax and BB ante is VHS. Button ante is better but it didn't catch on.

bet against Radacanu today. Her opponent is a very savvy grass player who has some good form this year.

Hope Murray can play without getting injured and make it to the QF vs Novak, but I always worry all those 4 and 5 setters can catch up with him.

Looking forward to watching some matches!

yeah I am not sure I would criticise F1 drivers, if they skip the event, they get 0 points. They had no choice.

Golfers can get in the bin though.

It is also a bit much with the golf European Tour taking the moral high ground when they have held several events in Saudi before.

why is this golf tour when people have decided to draw the line morally? What about the Grand Prix, heavyweight title bouts, lots of other events in other morally questionable countries.

Why do the golfers get it in the neck but Anthony Joshua is fine?

I don't really follow boxing, but pretty sure people have voiced disapproval of many sporting events in Saudi Arabia before.  Both because of human rights, and the war in Yemen. 

The Grand Prix there has been controversial from the start.  Vettel and Hamilton have voiced their unease about racing there publicly.   

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/saudi-minister-invites-hamilton-to-discuss-concerns/9509380/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/sport/2022/apr/05/f1-drivers-will-continue-to-speak-out-says-drivers-association-chair

Newcastle have been condemned pretty heavily for the Saudi money and so on. 

I think there is a difference between going there for one race and bankrolling your football team for the year/ running a whole golf tour with Saudi money.   Also it easier to give Hamilton some benefit of the doubt when he has been critical from the start and clearly didn't get input into the decision to race there.  The golfers have taken the decision to earn most of their money there knowing who was bankrolling it.

It is also easier to be critical of the golfers given so many of them were pretty dislikeable in the first place!

All the big names must surely have been set for life already so didn't need the extra millions?  The PGA tour money was already pretty eye watering even without this.

Happy to be not making any effort to watch any of it, and hope it all fails miserably.

why is this golf tour when people have decided to draw the line morally? What about the Grand Prix, heavyweight title bouts, lots of other events in other morally questionable countries.

Why do the golfers get it in the neck but Anthony Joshua is fine?

Murray looking great today vs Tsitsipas! Was probably going to be at the tourney in Stuttgart but instead I am isolating with Covid

At least I feel fine and I can watch the streams. Will be really interesting if he plays Nick K tomorrow.

what stream were you watching? tomorrows match should be good. A Murray win puts him back inside the top 50

It is on bet365 and some other bookies. Sky, betfair, Paddy? No commentary though.

Murray looking great today vs Tsitsipas! Was probably going to be at the tourney in Stuttgart but instead I am isolating with Covid

At least I feel fine and I can watch the streams. Will be really interesting if he plays Nick K tomorrow.

Bit of housekeeping on this one. Had some family stuff come up and  & can not play. Just about to send refund to Marky and people who bought pieces elsewhere.

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what I mean is that there is some good art. But 99% is sh*t. Same for NFTs.

An NFT is often called digital art. My own personal opinion which is probably not shared by many is that art is basically a giant scam. A massive rip off. A waste of time. Useless.

So it follows that digital art would be the same. People get ripped of for paintings and sculptures every day. They also sell for ridiculous prices the same as some NFTs have done (bored apes). So what is the difference? I wonder if David McWilliams has any paintings on the wall of his very nice house. And if he considers himself also exploited?

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I find all this fascinating

One of bitcoins biggest players was on the David McWilliams podcast arguing that bitcoin is a speculative asset rather than a currency, and that labelling it a currency was a mistake from the start


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://open.spotify.com/show/6dzfsIlMVEdKVSfSd1mclr&ved=2ahUKEwjq77fWi6f2AhX6QUEAHe4SBagQFnoFCJIBEAE&usg=AOvVaw1BtFRs0hHbl0PJNM5wXVup

I don’t know who David McWilliams, but he’s right.

"A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL LOSE A LOT OF MONEY" | DAVID MCWILLIAMS ON THE GROWTH OF CRYPTO IN FOOTBALL


https://www.otbsports.com/soccer/a-lot-of-people-will-lose-a-lot-of-money-david-mcwilliams-on-the-growth-of-crypto-in-football-1300995

Lets be honest. British football fans are just sources of income to a football team which uses sentiment and emotion to milk the fan for as much as they can. Whether it is overpriced tickets, overpriced food, overpriced replica shirts, sky sports subscription, memorabilia and all the other tat in the club shop. So yes of course a football team would want to get into NFT as it is another thing to sell to their fans. If fans want to hold a digital NFT, why can't the buy one to show their support in the same way they spend money on other stuff. Is my Birmingham City FC branded bath towel any more legit and valuable than an NFT showing Trevor Francis scoring an amazing goal?

4% gone

Planning to play GUKPT Coventry this week. £1k main event. Firing 1 bullet on Friday 1b, playing from the start. Selling 40% @1.25. Bank transfer only please, PM me for account details.

1% = £12.50

About me. Been gambling for a living since autumn 2008, a lot of that time playing MTTs. Back in the day I played a lot online. In the few years before the pandemic I switched to playing a lot more live. In 2019 I had a great year playing live where I won WSOP Circuit Marrakech, won Unibet UK Tour Manchester, chopped Deepstack Open Malta HU and several other nice scores considering I didn't play any buy ins bigger than around 1k. In pandemic times, I played online some to keep in shape, but also switched my focus to sports betting, DFS and crypto. Recently I have still been playing online several times a week on smaller sites and apps as well as time studying, and I have been playing quite a bit of live cash 2/2 and 2/5 when I have been in Berlin and Prague and also played a few live MTTs last autumn in Czech Republic and Slovakia. Last week I played the 25/25 in Walsall.

I prefer playing live. I think live poker is completely different to playing online and although I have not got the practice in compared to when I was playing live mtts virtually every week, I still think my skillset suits live MTTs. I have not played many GUKPTs, but I feel like I know the kind of fields they get and that I will have nice ROI in this tournament. Importantly I won't be money scared when it comes to day three as I have been in that position a number of times before.

Here is my Hendon Mob
https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=111949

Can't promise Stu Rutter style updates but I will try and keep investors informed.

Feel free to ask any questions. Cheers.

The Russian government has just banned residents from transferring money abroad.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-russia-sanctions-economy-ukraine-b2025043.html

[How likely do you think this is for, say, 99% of the population of the UK? (for example)?]

How likely do you think this is for, say, 99% of the population of the UK? (for example)?

Good question. The point is that the goalposts can change. Who would have thought a few years ago that in Western Europe if you rejected a vaccination you could be fined, you could have a criminal record, you could be excluded from much of public life and banned from entering many public places. (I am fully vaccinated and believe everyone should be btw). Would it surprise me to see financial control being used against anti vaxxers in Western Europe, probably not. Now we are getting into hundreds of thousands of people. And tens of millions haven't received a vaccination. Why not make their lives financially more difficult to try and coerce them into doing it by turning their money off? How about Russians living in the EU, Canada, US if the war continues and gets worse. Not oligarchs, just normal people. The government can change the rules at any time. We trust our governmental system to be honest and accountable and it is one of the more stable ones. But we live in strange uncertain times and 2008 showed just how fragile the global economic system actually is.

Effectively what you seem to be saying is that cryptocurrencies are useful if you are in a situation where the penalty, loss and instability of using the cryptocurrency are still less than the risk, instability and availability of using your own countries system.

I would put it more like this. You shouldn't use your entire bankroll to enter one poker tournament. You shouldn't have your stocks portfolio invested in one company. You shouldn't have all your money invested in one particular ETF. You shouldn't bet a large % of your wealth on a short priced sure thing. You should diversify and minimise your risk of ruin. In Bitcoin I don't see very much risk of it going to 0. I consider it solid and blue chip albeit more volatile then the $ or £. Of course if you are scrolling down coinmarketcap to the second or third page of cryptos or getting into NFTs then this is becoming a punt. Even some NFTs are much more solid.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme states that the first £85,000 you invest in any financial institution is protected should it go bust and the government will repay you. I hope so but as I have stated many times in this thread, I don't trust the government and especially as I don't own any property, I wouldn't mind hedging some of my money in something else nevertheless.