thanks! i'm currently in 12th, @arallmuus is in 6th with a pretty commanding stack. only 22 runners left, 4 more knockouts and we're past the bubble!

thankfully JJ held for me vs KQ, and KK held vs A2 so i've got a decent stack to play with despite sportsbet's ridiculously fast blind structure.

mccormack is still in the game in 19th place, so the bounty is still active!

EDIT: and mccormack is out. he shoved QJ into AJ and lost. too bad---he was right to my left with less than half my stack.

damn, good point. this could of course be done with scripts (and an online wallet) but until it's a streamlined part of wallet UI (dummy proof and easy) this is problematic for adoption among subscription services.


maybe. users love spending capital gains though. bitpay has shown data indicating that people spend more after increases in price: https://qz.com/931810/cheapair-and-bitpay-data-show-rising-bitcoin-btc-payment-volumes/

the optimal route is obviously to support crypto alongside traditional methods.

budget deficit or not, trump now wants "at least" $2 trillion in another stimulus bill: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/13/politics/navarro-white-house-coronavirus-stimulus/index.html

it's funny---the stock market takes a dump and all of sudden trump wants another huge stimulus package, much bigger than what senate republicans want.

his focus now is apparently on manufacturing though, not infrastructure.

still doing okay, in 7th at the moment. got in KK vs AK and it held. 76 remain, top 18 pays. let's see.....


in the tournament lobby area, switch the button that says "multi-window table mode" on. it'll create a pop-up for each table.

the betting interface is pretty tilting for me, not super intuitive and indeed takes a long time to manually enter bets.

+1, i think that's really important to consider. a luck-based incentive (sort of like bad beat jackpots in cash games) could have a strong retaining effect on casual players, especially in the second half of the series.

i would also be open to something like 150 chips towards the lottery + 150 chips towards paying out the top 5 in points. i dunno if that's getting too complicated (1000+200+150+150) or too high of a total buy-in (1500 chips) but it would add another skill-based incentive to even things out.

i still think the runner's up tourney should be open for anyone who played x number of games, like a consolation tourney. only 3 people are gonna cash in the championship after all.

exactly 100 runners---18 places paid, with the last payout ladder getting 0.018 BTC. good luck everyone!

i was dealt AA first hand of the tourney, and i managed to get it all in against KK. what a cooler! sorry @Asad321! the flop was scary as hell---3 hearts, he had Kh and i had no heart---but my pocket rockets held. that got my heart pumping!

here is a spot i ran into yesterday, relatively early in a small buy-in MTT:


i hated playing this passively OOP and the T on the turn was such a troll since it made AJ and J9 straights.

how often does villain have a straight, KQ, or set? i felt like i was inviting him to bluff the river (missed straight/flush draws or weak pairs)......i'm just not sure about this spot.

the article is very speculative. assumptions about the draconian nature of the bill are apparently based on the failed/withdrawn bill from 2019, but until the bill leaves panel or is otherwise leaked to the public, i don't think anybody knows what it says exactly:


is there even any indication that a similar bill could pass in the parliament? any indians around here with some insight into the legislative atmosphere?

+1, i don't wanna take away from the championship prize pool. that should still be the #1 incentive. i'm okay with adding an additional buy-in of 100 or 200 chips. so 1300-1400 chips total per game.


VPN from germany seems to consistently work, although i am slightly paranoid about having to withdraw larger amounts without KYC.


aiming for 3 prizes is probably a good structure. at first i was thinking flatter maybe (more prizes) but nearly paying for all the series buy-ins seems like a good lottery prize.

how does everyone feel about 1000 chips regular buy-in, 200 chips towards the championship, and 200 chips towards the lottery? = 1400 chips total per game.

37-50 would be reasonable. i would be very surprised if there was 100+ runners based on their normal traffic, so i'm expecting at least 0.018 BTC guaranteed for the lowest payout ladder, probably more.

overlay guaranteed tournaments tend to bring out way less players than freerolls so this should be pretty EV+.

then again, the watford jersey incentive is also there so we'll see.

all of that was happening a year ago. bitstamp began EDD with source of funds questionnaires in 2015, with more exchanges doing so every year since then. and the binance.SG incident simply went viral on crypto twitter, that's why people are aware of it. here is another instance from over a year ago where a bitfinex user was questioned about coinjoin transactions and subsequently had his account closed: https://www.reddit.com/r/WasabiWallet/comments/beqj8r/bitfinex_lock_account/

i feel like you're taking me out of context. i'm not saying "literally no exchange has changed their AML/KYC policies in the past year". i was responding to someone who said 1. this FATF meeting in 2 weeks is a good reason to now verify on exchanges, and 2. implied this FATF meeting will immediately catalyze major changes across the industry. the june meeting last year certainly did not do that, although i was shitting bricks at the time.

infrastructure---road, bridge, etc building. that's a classic job creation stimulus technique that trump has shown great fondness for. e-commerce (amazon and other online shopping + delivery venues) is always growing fast in these times. the government could find ways to incentivize large scale e-commerce employers to expand their payrolls.


it's already happening. the rise in cases seems to be worst in states that reopened early. in some places this can be blamed on more testing, but in others hospitalizations and deaths are clearly rising which is quite worrisome. https://apnews.com/feb4c26d9364497cf82ee7c0c1b1b3d5

+1, it's just awful. i hope for their sake they have plans to revamp it or find a new software provider. i'm sure it's part of the reason their poker room traffic is so low.


i actually thought this is what we were doing---a weekly game + finale in 2 months. that's cool with me. 4 games is definitely too short.

i'm also fine with 2 games per week but i know some people can't free up that much time. therein lies the problem.


great news!


not a big issue, but i can understand the desire to smooth out variance a bit and award for points.


i prefer paying the extra chips.


i think everyone who meets the minimum requirements should be eligible. it would be a nice consolation for those who don't cash in the final.

do it up, MTT sunday. running good in both the sportsbet.io 1 BTC tourney and the BIG BTC would make for a hell of a day.

i'm gonna play in the SB tourney and probably the LITTLE BTC. there's a BIG BTC satellite starting at the same time as the SB tourney so i might take a shot at that.

right, so we're in the exact same situation we were in a year ago when the travel rule was originally published.

the FATF and national regulators are no doubt coming, but they move at a snail's pace. my comments were a direct response to this:


i would never give up my ID documents unless it was absolutely necessary.

suggested reading: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5221497.0

i'm seeing contradictory messages from the trump administration. according to the CDC earlier today:


it's really not up to mnuchin or trump. the CDC is acknowledging that decisions re lockdowns will continue to be made at the local level. if cases continue rising like this, then some governors are eventually gonna shut things down again.

if that happens, it's gonna crush the markets and any hope for a sustained economic recovery.


the same logic that brought the lockdowns in the first place: an exponential rise in cases can lead to the health care system being overrun. at that point, non-coronavirus urgent care will become neglected, leading to a much higher death toll than the epidemic would cause alone.

i don't understand how that works since they wouldn't be able to determine gross/net proceeds or really any of the information required by the 1099-B. i'm guessing the reddit rep was misinformed or there was otherwise some miscommunication or misunderstanding.

you can see who must file a 1099-B here under "specific instructions": https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1099b.pdf

i don't see how someone only buying/withdrawing BTC fits any of those conditions, or why square would spend time/money sending 1099s when they aren't required.


not showing basis just means the burden is on you to track and report all your gains and losses, instead of relying on what square reports.

i'll be there for sure. i'm anticipating a huge overlay, maybe 0.8 BTC or more, considering the weekly freeroll only draws 200 runners. i can't really take delivery on a jersey (i'm in the states, shhh!) but oh well. the prize pool is fat enough on its own.


there's no way anything will happen with the series by this weekend anyway---next weekend at the earliest.

i hope we can hammer out some of these league/format decisions in the next few days so we're all set for the 21st.

awesome, i'll be there. i assume there will be a very nice overlay with most of the freeroll hunters gone.

good timing too since we're in between series in our bitcointalk poker league---no games happening this weekend.

thanks, steve. see everyone on sunday!

exchanges don't answer to the FATF. the travel rule relies on governments implementing it via national legislation. first comes national regulation, then come government crackdowns on non-compliant exchanges.

based on the FATF's usual MO, they will probably just issue a report saying the vast majority of countries are currently outside of compliance. big deal!

i do expect that exchanges will gradually become more stringent with AML/KYC in response to an increasingly restrictive regulatory atmosphere, but this doesn't happen overnight. this meeting is definitely NOT a reason to rush into giving KYC documents, especially where it's not required.