book me 5% please. not really sure how its this time of year again already though!

so tempting <3 <3 <3 <3

Putin has to be seen to win in Russian optics or he cant retain power. I don't see many viable ways for him to win given the huge losses and the already documented war crimes committed.

We could easily end up with another North Korea on a colossal scale.

I’m in Gran Canaria right now in an apartment with no Wi-Fi, only Spanish Tv and a rapidly dwindling data allowance on my phone.

I’m basically following this war through Tittybean’s Twitter feed so all power to you Tittybean for all the solid retweets

Sorry for that.

Watching my wifes friends and family try to coordinate escaping west through google maps gps location dots in insane.

As were the messages, 'we are on a train going west' 'we stopped, have to wait for the bombing ahead to stop'.

If you haven't read the planned and incompetently not cancelled government media releases about their victorious win, and 'the final solution the Ukrainian problem', you should do so, Putin wants to reincorporate Ukraine and Belarus and rebuild the mighty Russian empire to be remembered as a conquering Czar. It is so incredibly fucked up.

https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1498025819054264328?s=20&t=UvJICU8602WTNFS4zrNlNQ

How do we know who's in the right here?

Where were all the sanctions when the US invaded Iraq? In that instance it was just assumed that the US and UK were the heroes.

When Ukrainian 'cells' start blowing things up in Russia are they going to be terrorists or heroes?

I really have no idea.

Remember that Putin has already blown up a residential tower block, blamed it on terrorists, then used that to take power. Any information out from Russia which isn't verified is essentially guaranteed as a lie. They have closed off their media and only the state line is allowed. Until today they were claiming on the equivalent of BBC1 that they had taken zero casualties. They also don't mention any of the attack conducted outside of the 'disputed' regions. Putins grip is tenuous and he has shown in the 'for tv' addresses that he is/has lost it. I echo Red dogs sentiments that this is the scariest of times. Previous cold war was brinkmanship on the whole, this has gone past that. Suggestions of dropping the ISS onto Europe and using nukes whilst far fetched shouldn't be ruled out, he really is a threat and with the scale of this invasion has shown him to not be a rational actor, which all previous models are based on.

Note also that BBC released leaked recordings today involving Khadirov, showing that this invasion was planned and started in motion weeks and months ago. All negotiations were a facade.

+ This

Just because the US has a pretty bad recent history of doing the wrong thing doesn't really give a green light to other countries to do the wrong thing too.  Would prefer it if the US stopped doing stupid invasions too. 

bloody hell saw this thread bumped and sighed.

happy to read that update.

Keep fighting bud.

Spurs in the 3rd minute. <3

Big apologies, as this is an inadvertent slowroll, but there actually won't be any of the package avaliable for sale. I felt I had to first ask the one person who used to back me for live tournaments (Marvin Rettenmaier) as a formality, and he completely surprised me by wanting all of it. Never saw that coming.

Sorry for the change of mind. Will leave this message on here for a few days, so that it can be seen, and then delete the post.

"marv"


best of luck Stu

Very sad news, thoughts are with his family.

One of the genuinely good people you would bump into on the Poker scene.

bloody hell. Rest up and get well soon. 

I like this comment.

Before this, I think the dumbest winner in tournament poker history was that guy who sold over 100% of his action for the EPT championship, then went on to win $1 million and owe more than he could pay. Actually maybe that is still the dumbest move ever. But this is 2nd place.

I have a vague memory of this around 10 or 15 years ago, was EPT San Remo & it was a Dutch fella, Constant Risenberg or something similar. He was said to have sold 130% of himself as I recall.

A very famous British player did this in a 10k tournment in Vegas about 15 years ago too.

Amazingly he still gets staked in big tournaments.

Is there a reason he's not named?

Yes, no reason to name him unless her ever asked for staking on here. Then I'd warn any potential investors.

but what about the juicy gossip for us plebs to enjoy?

he doesn't come across well from the screenshots in the 2+2 thread...

I'm really annoyed the other player still paid the him the money from the HU deal 

whyt is that?

the other player knew who the player was, indeed could only contact him as he knew who he was through his stream.

it's not like he had two accounts in the mtt - he was simply evading a geo block.

worming out on a technicality may have been within his rights, but the gentlemanly thing to do was pay the man.

what about the others who placed below but should be one position higher? shouldn't any money go towards them not the pleb breaking ToS ?

I'm really annoyed the other player still paid the him the money from the HU deal 

I just saw Cos posting on FB and assumed it was a 'great to see Pete after so long' post. So very sad and unexpected.

Thoughts are with his family.