Love it that made for some good watching this morning before bed when I got home. The delivery made it, I had read a few things about Isildur1  and their early and cryptic entry into online Poker. Just goes to show what dedication and study can do. i was so far removed from anything resembling serious or interst in the poker scene beyond playing fun home games back then, but I get the feeling he likely had done some very dirct research on each of his expected opponents and their play.

Glad you filled in the blanks on the Hastings dude, I had a feeling this was a very targeted approach, the "teamwork" in database sharing doesn't surprise me. I'm sure I was a learning lesson for Viktor as it is almost ludacris to think you can jump from Hold'em to PLO at the same stakes and expect to crush it. I've been thinking on this a lot lately as I watch quite a few stream highlights on youtube, some for fun others as they share a lot of the thought process and reasoning behind their plays. If they aren't trying for a purely balanced GTO strategy it really opens them up for exploits in the long run. Not just streamers but really any online crusher that you can go back over and watch their action all the way through seems  a very big risk.
I have no idea how often they make adjustments to their game or how easily they can spot an exploit in their gameplay in these situations.
Good on you. A lot of people can't make that decision. I've considered giving short deck a try for fun but will probably hold off a while and see how I make out in the next month or so with my standard holdem MTT's. Can't be any worse than April/May really.
I almost forgot does anyone have opinions on what they would do here. I forgot to pop it into equihash and see where I am at. With a pot like this I don't feel like flatting the 4-bet jam and call, is a good play as I'm left with 9 BB and am pot committed. It feels like it's a Jam or a fold. It's been up for a while and I'll just let you know what I did. I folded.
I'm also curious on what you think about me flatting(calling) the 3-bet as opposed to Jamming not much option for a 4-bet.

No worries I was really only interested in how the customer service was as I knew you had used a different service than what I'll need. My internet speeds are good and consistent, I beefed it up when I had a lot of miners running and it won't be on wifi.
I'd likely be doing it 6 months at a time, as I didn't see anything lower. Thanks for the info.

If I read correctly the Premium server is only useful if you have a 4k TV. I don't need the 4K so the economic will be fine. Is that correct or am I missing something in regards to content availability. Just to be sure it has the IPTV and VOD in the one package.

I'll send an email when I'm off, I need to time it so I can go through it with the wife. Thanks

I can't say I looked to much into anything Satoshi posted or said beyond the Whitepaper and that's going back almost 3 years now. Things had already begun to take on a very different path then what may have been anticipated or expected in the earliest days. I have been mulling over why someone would leave that nestegg untouched.

The first reason has already been stated and is the most plausible for why they haven't moved to this point. They have other wallets and coins to use and/or were affluent enough for their lifestyle to see no need in digging deep into the bags. I very early on ran with the idea that Satoshi if an individual may have met an early end, which is also a plausible idea. People die every day, and it's rarely planned by them.

I like the use of the word altruistic in this article because it fit with a preconceived notion I had if death had not been in the cards for Satoshi. It may very well the greatest redistribution of wealth the world will ever see. If BTC sees the growth that many people expect or anticipate over the decades, imagine 1.1 million BTC being spread throughout the world in any fashion really. Bitcoin has always had a disruptive power behind it and an opportunity to remove the monopoly that the current financial system has on individual, so who's to say this 5.2% (more if you count burned/lost coins) couldn't be used to attempt to flatten out the wealth disparity the world currently operates under.

Phil has you in the right direction. Your setup requires cheap hardware(Asics) efficiency doesn't matter just power draw and remaining within that. I don't know what a Whatsminer M10 sells for but that could be another option maybe even 2 at LPM depending on what you can grab. You just need to balance cost against hashrate to decide what is best for the runs you will be able to make.

The short answer is it's hard for you to not be profitable in the long run regardless, as you are not paying for your electricity costs. There is always the potential your gear breaks down adding to it's overall costs but in the longterm you will likely be ahead. You could even look at it this way, the 10% extra you receive (110% from government) could cover the cost of your hardware.

Check the Forum Marketplace for used gear people are unloading and if all else fails start to look at manufacturers for some sale prices.

Glad I was able to point you in the right direction. It definitely felt like an oversight. Thanks for your previous response on the possibility of collusion with skins, unfortunately I can't quote it and bring it here for posterity.

I might give this a go, if I do I'll pop back in and drop a review of my experience as long as I find a decent tourney schedule when I'm available. Pretty much I just want sites to play on with no hassle for a Canadian who wants to make a straight crypto deposit and withdrawal, without a middleman. Which as I as typing this and looking up reviews seems it may be a problem, as I just read a review on stating this is unavailable for Canadians. So I don't know if that is an old review or what but like I said I prefer a no hassle or potential hassle experience.

Yeah Galfond is crazy good. Not sure how much you follow these days but he's become quite the PLO wizard. He's running some challenges now and made an insane comeback against the first challenger. I'd say you made a good decision for someone to study from.

I have to ask as it fascinates me. Why did you quit playing poker?

Hey I might want to give your service a try. I have an android box at home and most of my goto apps have shit the bed, so I've been looking into IPTV an VOD. Just want to make sure I have this clear.

I don't have a 4K TV so I'll be fine with the "IPTV economic server 37€ 1year" option. This has the IPTV and VOD packaged? How many devices can I connect to? Is there a web portal if I am travelling with my laptop or something?

I'm mostly biting as this thread has been up for a while so i'm guessing you have been interruption free for some time. What sort of advertising are you doing? As I've been trying to find a service that isn't flaunting it as I'd hate to have a subscription die off in the middle and have to search for another.
I'm off next week and would be interested in testing it on a day I'm off, with your 24 hour trial to view the Library and test quality.

@Lucius how did the customer service issue I noticed on page 2 turn out?

I don't think raising the entry to accommodate a special prize for top 3 will benefit the series overall. I think it will actually drive away more players than it will attract, based on the consistency and skill levels shown so far. I'd say most of the participants are fairly decent poker players with a few that have solid consistent documented finishes by the end of the series. This is also entering the 15-20$ buy-in that a lot of players won't want to consistently risk for a small tournament.
It would be different if it was just added to that tournaments prizepool, but again I think a lot of people will shy away from a larger buy-in.

Unfortunately efialitis did inform us that there was no runner-up tournament this time around.
Agreed. I do think a lot of people drop out near the end if they are no longer in contention for the Championship. The 2 tournaments a weekend was definitely a draw back imo. If we carried on that way I likely wouldn't be able to participate fully, I've actually booked off some vacation the last 2 series just to fit in another couple tournaments lol.

Moving to 1 a weekend is already a good step in the right direction. I just try to mention the tournament to any and all that will listen. I haven't been on th eSWC cash tables lately but I was going to start poking some of their regs to come on out and join, I'm sure some of them already have an account here.

One thing I think might be nice especially considering we are currently rather small - Is a group discussion about the Championship game before the date is set. The time is not really movable to accommodate all of our players atm, but date seems easy enough to find one that works for all. I say this as I am lucky that I will be able to play this weekend, but if I were on my dayshifts I would be SOL. Nothing crazy but the option between 2 weekends might be nice.

Thanks definitely looks like some good material. Might make that some of my casual reading at work couldn't hurt to go back over everything. Agreed on the Doug Polk hand review videos, I watched so much of those unfortunately for me, I really was just getting back into poker and was reall digging his content as he lost his desire to play or continue making poker content.

I did however follow him into the upswing lab which was helpful and worked out as they just updated a bunch of their MTT ranges extensively as my subscription was ending. I've lately been watching the content put out by BenCB/Raise Your Edge on youtube and i think it is a very complimentary after studying purely GTO strategies.

Sorry to hear you were feeling depressed. I don't know you from a hole in the wall, but if it hits again as it usually does and your feeling stuck reach out anytime. Apart from that will be happy to see you playing in series #3

I'm fine with it if everyone else is. You and they are busy and as I've said previously I'm not looking to come at them or you to make changes often. I'm pretty good with the "it is what it is" moto, deal with it and move on. Just something to make clear for the next series and hope there isn't another oversight.
No announcement on a tournament of losers, and I didn't notice it at the time when I checked earlier. So far just a 3rd series has been confirmed. Sorry to hear about the part time shifts.

I picked one to look over. It's this one here - https://prnt.sc/stgihf

You need to stop putting link s to your forum in your posts. It's probably as simple as that. In this example a link to the topic you created on your forum doesn't need to be part of the post. It gives the impression that the only reason you wrote that is to advertise your forum, that would be considered spam.

Only being screenshots to the PM you receive it's hard to tell, but are any of these multi-posts?? By that I mean making more than one post in a row, if so those will get deleted and most Mods won't take the time to merge posts.

I looked at this example - https://prnt.sc/stgihf - It gave me an idea. I don't see anything wrong wit what yo are doing within your service thread but again it can look like a reply simply to promote your forum. Mods don't have a lot of tie to go through all the intricacies, and if it looks spammy or like an advert it will generally get removed. Likewise a lot of reporters would see this and your post history of adding in the links to your forum and report those posts. In your case they may be wrong but that's an acceptabl risk to clearing legitimate spam from the forum. Perhaps try using the AMA with Moderator] tag.

In this instance it could have been [url=**insert link**] AMA with Moderator. It looks less like the advertising spam we see on forum and will still allow you to spread the message.

Edit: I am not familiar with the board or thread myself. Why not create a self-mod topic on Bitcoin discussion and move away from the one that seems to not work so much anymore. Build your own framework within the forum using self-mod threads. That's the only way I think you could show theymos the need.

Yeah I'm not expecting the M10's to have a long life. In reality a few months of profitability is great, as it brings me back to my winter mining, which can pretty much start in October... Uuuugghh just disgusted myself a little. The M20s, is a different story, as i figure it will be a profitable miner until around January or so barring anything extreme. I have to play around with it and see but with LPM available as well it may just make it into the house this winter as well. Leading into the fall, I have some tough decisions to make whether I remain a year round miner or not. I still enjoy it and have learned a ton from it, but I may be resigned to being a cold month guy. The M20S debaucles that I faced last year in delays and then this year in shit support provided by Pangolin really hurt my plans but nothing is set in stone.


I was actually discussing with someone your solar setups a few weeks ago. I couldn't imagine watching and waiting as all this goes on around you and your investments. Best of luck as I know it was bad enough for you and yours trying to mitigate Covid. Your business plan is great, as the government subsidies for you host partners solar is like adding in a revenue stream which under normal circumstances helps you continue to drive forward.

I don't see an issue with it. I actually wish I had handle it better when I first noticed it, not that I went off the deep end or anything. When the first couple were trickling in this year, or at least the first few i noticed anyways, I was actively and consistently trading with an individual. It tripped me up as I was looking through my PM's to send them a PM to set one up , then I looked at my feedback to link over and that's when i clued into the change. Being impatient I created a reputation thread about it more so to discuss this event than anything.

So for fears of old trading partners just leave accurate feedback, and you should be fine. Doesn't mean the slough of other precautions shouldn't be taken before trading.

That thread brought some of the great benefits to users requesting the name change. Some it was for security/privacy, others it was due to now lucrative employment opportunities available. Not many of us i'm sure gave great consideration to what our forum name was going to be or where being a part of this community could lead us.
This is also a need to request feature that is subject to approval by theymos. So I don't imagine "Hey man, I need to dodge this valid scam accusation" is going to cut it.

Glad to hear they were able to come through for you once again. Great service and consistent... I like it. Not just the riots but if i were thinking of buying anything else atm I would be factoring in a PSU replacement for every 3rd miner I bought. I don't really know the where and or why but their miners seem to always start off with one PSU, then it gets an upgrade in later batches to an "X"1 model PSU, which seems sturdier and/or more efficient.

With no hard and fast numbers it just seems their PSU's can be problematic within a year of service. It's not much different from having a few extra 1600 PSU's kicking around as spares before they all became packaged units.

Hey there,

You will have much better luck trying to sell this here Marketplace -> Computer Hardware.It's a shit time to be selling miners but if your just looking to liquidate you might have a decent chance, certainly better than auctioning them off. Even at the best of times hardware auction fare poorly.
I also checked some of your past posts and considering you are still running a few of these and have had minor issues in the past maybe hold onto one for parts/swap out.
Good luck

*bottom left of your screen you can "move topic"

Sorry jut took a small dive and might have missed something. Long and short of it is this.
- Alt accounts are perfectly fine for any reason within forum rules
- They can all participate in signature campaigns/bounties as long as they are following the rules. This generally means they can not participate in the same bounty or campaign, as long as it's explicitly stated.

- They can send merit back and forth. This is not against the rules but definitely is against the intent. Neutral feedback is appropriate from community members and any further action can be decided upon by Theymos ( I believe only he can overturn merit transactions)
- Self-vouching and false positive feedback is inherently deceitful and can be a decent reason behind negative trust. That is open to opinion and interpretation much like the trust system in general. If that's the only issue it can possibly be remedied by removing all self vouches and positive feedbacks. It still doesn't mean the original tagger will change their mind but forgiveness should always still be an option.

Personally I do not believe there is any honest need to have 2 accounts on the forum that engage in trading of any sort. I personally think that tagging an alt account neutral to identify it is a good step but unnecessary, if you just use it as a voice.

Any new rule can be implemented at any time. It's theymos's playground.

Hard to give you much to go on as my experience is in mining with them. Personally I had no issues and found them to be helpful and have good communication. I wouldn't really call them small an they definitely seem well connected so they my be a great incubator for your half-baked ideas.

OP of their ANN page is who I was in contact with so you may consider sending them a PM to get a more direct response. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5183959.0
Good luck

Can't say I've ever looked at that site. I have always checked here if I have a time sensitive transaction to send https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#0,24h . It's always served me well with info, as was pointed out you likely had the right reasoning for setting your own fees.

Personally I try and avoid sending BTC in a rush situation. If I am trading for Fiat I always tell everyone that it's sent and with a low fee, if it doesn't get through I'll increase it to get it through. The only time I've ever had a long sweat was at the peak in 2017 when I was fairly new and didn't really grasp the idea behind fees and priority. Even in a situation where it advises a fee of 48-62 Sat/VByte as it is right now, for an estimate between 30 minutes and 4 hours. i would likely set the fee around 10-15 and wait.

If you ever get concerned about your fees you should look into consolidating your coins to keep your fees lower in the future.

Well that seems interesting I was looking into GGpoker and Natural8 a few weeks ago but never really went any further. I might look into this skin a bit more as this is the first I heard of it; it never came up when I was searching last week for a BTC deposit poker room.

I am not really positive how skins work, does this mean that I could play through 7XL, and be playing against individuals who are playing through GGpoker? If that's the case does this not open the door for collusion? I mostly play MTT's so less of a worry for me but it does seem possible. IIRC GGpoker had a built in HUD does that also apply to 7XL?
Edit: added in later
Not really. There are a few members around 20 depending that participate in our Bitcointalk Poker Series. That is the link to the second series which wraps up with a Championship this Sunday. We have held tournaments on 2 different platforms to date.

I would like to add that we are always looking for any rank of forum member who enjoys poker at any level to come out and play. There are all skill levels that currently participate and I believe we are going to a 1 game a week schedule.

Glad to hear they are going to continue to host our series. Good times.

I noticed today they have launched the final looks to be same time as the qualifiers on Sunday.

It does still have 5000 for starting stacks this time around. Looking forward to Sunday I'll get rested up after work and try to record the final. Heavily dependent on my families mood that day, understandably the wife seemed a little less than impressed when i told her the schedule.

I'm not sure about all the entries but it looks like we have the .05 BTC  generously donated by SWC, and .0286 from the 200 chip fees for the prize pool.
This doesn't include the big BTC ticket worth .01 BTC and the SWC hat for the winner.

Can't wait.