Different format including blinds minutes and starting chipstack might be one of the factor that determine wether player would be good on that game or not. I am running decent on game with higher blind minutes or one of those bigstack / monster stack game but Im sucks on anything with lower than 100 BB

This monster stack game might take up to 10 hours just to reach the final table but yeah this is what I would choose to play on every Sunday . People are less aggresive in this kind of game and this is totally what poker looks like instead of shoving all those stack every rounds ( my personal preference )

OK here goes the big one.

$109  Bounty Builder Series 159: $115K Gtd.

Starts at 15:30 UK/WET

A bit earlier for a change.

Setting up to stream it a bit.

But, again, if this were organized like real sports betting, with odds and all that stuff, and some people were really betting on some of us, it would be tons of fun, imo.

I have just sent out the password via PM to everyone who qualified - I mean the really best players and not those luckboxes qualifying for the Grand Final...

Edit: TyKi as our most intelligent player deserves a spot... he will suck anyways. Let me know if you like to play @tyKiwanuka

I agree, runners up final should be a casual game between friends with lots of inappropriate low hits flying all over the chat. Let serious players have their grand final and play tight game 

I would suggest ACR, but I can't imagine they would sponsor us in any way shape or form. Maybe I'll fire off a support ticket. Pitch it as an idea to advertise on the forum and bring in more BTC poker players. Worth a shot. I believe they are accessible to most of the world, and I've never had any issues with my crypto deposits.

Im also thinking of running a bigger 1 off free roll or low stakes forum game, perhaps monthly?

I also had a mind about a few prizes but that is the type of tbc stuff.

Might depend if people are prepared to chip in for or donate prizes.

Im also thinking of running a bigger 1 off free roll or low stakes forum game, perhaps monthly?

And of course potential partners or sponsorship for our games (aside obv of SWC who already do us well I would like us to maintain this relationship - pokerstars that I wanted to consider using isn't accessible from some players so not doing it I suppose *shame)

Its very pedestrian after playing lots of games with thousands of entries.

Also it seems just too easy? I sound like a big head but they are all so predictable.

The reason why exchanges don't offer insurance its because it would be very difficult if not impossible to find any insurance company that is willing to take that risk. As far as I know some exchanges like Coinbase or Gemini, they have insurance however its on fiat funds and not on crypto. So if they got hacked and the hacker took $1 million in US funds from their bank accounts they would be covered, if they stole $1 million worth of crypto then they wouldn't be covered.

Crypto is still pretty new thing and most don't understand it. So no insurance company wants to take on that risk.

Coinbase prioritizes the security of our customer's funds, all digital currency that Coinbase holds online is insured. If Coinbase were to suffer a breach of its online storage, the insurance policy would pay out to cover any customer funds lost as a result. Coinbase holds less than 2% of customer funds online. The rest is held in offline storage.

Have you guys tried out GGPoker? There software is pretty cool.

However, it can also be argued that 2016 also had extremely high level of optimism for a Hillary victory. It was speculated to be close to a certainty by the pollsters.

Study #1 examines the adoption of compulsory voting laws in Australia in order to assess the effects of near-universal turnout. When new, working class voters were brought the polls Australia saw significant changes in election results and public policy.

Study #2 explores the partisan consequences of marginal changes in voter turnout in the United States by comparing the partisan preferences of regular and marginal voters.  Across three independent tests and settings, marginal voters are significantly more supportive of the Democratic Party compared to regular voters.

Didn't Mr Xu keep everyone's private keys in his girlfriend's grandmother's cupboard?

Star alone holds the private key to the OKCoin code wallet,” he wrote. “The backup of the private keys were held by Star’s wife and mother, both of whom are non-technical.”

And if I remember rightly he was 'investing' customer funds in crappy investment schemes, or maybe that was Huobi.

Do you play on ACR instead?

I did play it, the highest position I got to was around 400th, but I gradually lost out after 3.5 hours it was a lot of multi tasking with the stream and bitcointalk poker game.

I was also thinking about creating a home game on Pokerstars or even maybe SwC I need to look into it.

Thanks Mauser, you rock, I usually will be live at the weekends.

I think I need to work out a rough schedule and try to set it regularly. Then people can roughly know if I'm about.

@figmentofmyass. Your possibility is only just a speculation and we have never seen any sign that our culture will shift away from consumerism. I reckon it is in our nature to need to have the latest stuff. I also reckon that it is this very nature that sped up our technological advancement.

But the decline in savings is recent, and the human brain hasn’t evolved since the Ford administration. The bottom 90 percent of households saved 10 percent of their income in the first Reagan administration. By 2006, their savings rate was nearly negative-10 percent.

Other writers suggest that the country’s low saving rate is purely a matter of American exceptionalism. But it is also a myth that the U.S. is alone in its turn against saving in the last three decades. The personal savings rate has fallen in Canada, Germany, and Japan, as well.

As promised a few screencaps. Nowhere near all of them, as I didn't start grabbing them from the get go. Some gems here though non the less.

     

     

I will be streaming tomorrow.

Well that turned into a shitshow for a few days, and probably right up until the match gets underway. I am happiest about the fact that somehow a concession about holecards came about and will be visible for at least part of the match.

Surprising though is I think Doug is legitimately fired up to play now. He talked before about feeling anxious when the time was coming to play, and that was part of his leaving the game. I don't see any of that in his current, come and get me approach. I even noticed him kind of accepting and calling for additional matches, some obvious putdowns and/or trolls but maybe he dips his toes in and gets a taste for these heads up matches.

Any other information on where will this be streamed at? To be honest, Dneg is somewhat sloppy when it comes to online game. Doug on the other hand is a good player when it comes to online 1v1 heads up. I've checked his video on youtube few days ago and I have seen that he is doing great on that , making lots of cash on his game

If Dneg ended up winning this, it will be total upset for Doug

After several thousand years gold is still largely speculation, or perhaps that has grown as its usage as any sort of money has waned with more useful things coming along.

But deflation/hoarding will be just as big a factor in stopping it progressing into a currency, perhaps the prime one in time.

So after a very disheartening Friday/Saturday grind I eeked out some sunshine on Sunday I took down the Little BTC which was a nice ego boost after all the busted bullets---- it was really starting to look like a scene out of Hotshots part deux

Then with my Big BTC ticket in hand I rallied and after about 2 hours was in the top 5, held there until about 20-30 folks left then started to slide - My stack was at it's largest 53K, and folded out almost everything from 25, down to 9 where I finished; out of the money 7 cashed. I had one chance for a possible 3-bet but they had me covered and I was going to be playing OOP as the small blind. AJ suited facing LJ I believe.

Unlike most tournaments I don't remember a lot of spots that I could have played differently, the one mentioned above is about the only one that sticks out. I folded to a flop bet, with no diamonds on the board and it being 8,9,5 2 spades.

I grabbed a ton of screencaps of me losing flips or getting sucked out on so I may group them together and share in the next couple of days. I did manage to win with AA twice I think, because everyone folded pre  , Ran my KK into AA a few times, so gross. That's the problem with taking shots though, the bad side of variance can kill your action quickly.