just in case this guy ever asks someone for money or something....

I don't have a facebook account.  This came to my attention today and is not me.  I'm quite surprised I rate as impostor worthy

David Cross mentioned this documentary on the adam carolla podcast awhile back.  It has 8 - 45 minute episodes, i got disc 1 yesterday from netflix and watched all 4 45 minute episodes, and would have watched the rest if i had disc 2

Its badly in need on a better editor to trim the fat but its a fascinating work nonetheless, if you watch episode 1 ( Read more... )

Steven Begleiter, One of the november nine....he's on tv because of tha...oh er rather because he's an ex bear stearns employee. Looks like a guy you'd dream of having at your table, but probably he's pretty good at the poker. He makes a solid point near the end that many poker players would have gone to wall st i-banking in a past time ( Read more... )

Their is lots of info you can google about lenny dykstra (self alledged) financial guru. This blog has a lot of good stuff about it. Basically he got tons of press for running a martingale style options newsletter and was celebrated as a genuis. He paid 17 million for a house near the top of the market (with no money down) and then he started an ( Read more... )

I played 3 hands today ( Read more... )

I'm through to day 4 with 177500 ( Read more... )

I have 69700 going to day 3 of the main event. Well below avg but plenty of chips for the blinds

We are off thursday and back noon friday

if anyone sees the table draw please comment i'm on orange 82

Apparently my twitter feed didn't work last night ( Read more... )

For those that don't know the WSOP main event the last few years has allowed people to pick which of the multiple day 1s they wish to play.

Last year this lead to a massively skewed distribution of:

a:1297 (thursday)
b:1158 (friday - july 4th)
c:1928 (saturday)
d:2461 (sunday)

of the 4389 that started on days c-d, 2379 survived the  5,  2 hour, levels to ( Read more... )

• 12:35 Table has: James mackey, dave plastik and van russo at table, stupid medium buyin fields plus table won't break did win 3k right away though #
• 12:45 Lost first stack KK to set of 444 on 974 2 spade flop, might have folded without addon bailout #
• 14:04 4k on break, getting outplayed and not liking my chances #
• 14:07 Last hand a guy calls 1600 ( Read more... )