I was in LV last weekend, not for the WSOP, but I did meet up with a few people for dinner including Bill, Kenny and Terrence. One of the great things about my poker friends peer group is the implicit assumption that we will CCR for the check. After we took care of this (Kenny and I got down to heads up but he ended up paying), I remembered that ( Read more... )

This tournament has five Day 1s, and "Players may play any number of flights and carry their largest stack to Day 2." It is also a rebuy tournament with bounties ( Read more... )

via Bruce Schneier, two poker players had their laptops removed from their room, infected with malware, and replaced in their room.

So, what's the moral of the story? If you have a laptop that is used to move large amounts of money, take good care of it. Lock the keyboard when you step away. Put it in a safe when you're not around it, and encrypt ( Read more... )

I don't give two fucks about fantasy sports, so forgive me if this sort of thing is old news, but something like this is legal and online sports betting/poker isn't ( Read more... )

As seen on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/pokerdutch/posts/526981720678981

(Dan points to his public blog entry so I'm leaving him unblurred, not that I think everyone who commented would care either, but you never know.)


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A compendium of heart-shaped astronomical features

Babies as young as seven months can distinguish between, and begin to learn, two languages with vastly different grammatical structures

The WSOP schedule has been announced. That page includes a link to the PDF schedule. Except, nothing on the page seems to be right-click-able. Why the fuck ( Read more... )

( Accumulated mobile phone photos )

Today at work, I participated in a 1.5-hour long meeting where one of the other attendees looked exactly like what tahoemph would look like if he were Indian, including the mustache (though otherwise balding, whereas IIRC MPH has a full head of hair).

It was extremely distracting.

Hadn't realized he was ill.

http://bridgewinners.com/article/view/in-memoriam-kyle-larsen-1950-2012/

Kyle Larsen, one of the game's great players, passed away on August 21st at 9:10 PM PST. Kyle battled prostate cancer for several years before ( Read more... )

via rcfox, video of the San Diego fireworks fiasco in which an entire fireworks show was compressed into 15 seconds, blamed on computer error:

Click to view

If you ask me, this was way more awesome than the intended version could possibly have been.

/. notes that it's not the first time it's happened.

Banner week for science: Giant Dark Matter Bridge Between ( Read more... )