Konnichiwa, bitches

We have officially crossed over into Idiocracy

This is the most economically illiterate take I've seen in weeks and we can do a spaces or @MarketManiaShow debating it sometime if you want.

You see this beautiful woman right here? That's my wife. The mother of our child. The co-CEO of our family. My best friend. Let me tell you our love story: 17 years ago she's an M&A attorney for a big firm & one day coming home she ran out of gas, for the first and only time in her life, and knocked on my door for help. Turns out we were neighbors. After the car is dealt with, we have an hour long, wandering, goofy conversation. We become MySpace friends. We DM daily. I put her in my top 8. A few months later we move to Vegas and start spending almost every single day together and haven't stopped since. She's smart, funny, and a total smokeshow. We'll be poor(ish) together for some years until we find Bitcoin, but those were happy years, on the poker grind in Vegas and optimizing for fun. So many memorable nights with so many friends. We'll start a family, and move to a beautiful island to raise her away from American insanity. This amazing woman built and digitized a library, by herself, at our daughters primary school and worked it weekly as the librarian for some years. Last year she home schooled our daughter so we can take her around Europe, show her some different cultures. She made 2x fake rares & loves the play of diamond handsing 2x Nakamoto cards. In short, she loves the frogs. A real down to ride. She doesn't seek attention like I do, she's the introvert to my extrovert. But it's important for you all to know why I'm capable of doing what I do. She's the great woman behind me. Happy 13th wedding anniversary PUPPY, I love you with every part of me.

One of my favorite Phil Iveys stories: Ivey playing WSOP, in a hand. Waitress brings him drink. He hands her $20, not really looking at her. Waitress, kinda pissed: "I don't have change for this!" Phil, not missing a beat: "I didn't ask for any."

NFTs in 2021 feel like ring tones in 2006.

Not sure if real life or dreaming rn... 1069 entrants... Table 420... A fucking DOGE is under the table!

Ok my turn. Year: 2001 Bankroll: $1400 Monthly rent: $2200, overdue by 3 days. Landlord's latest message: "I am not like American landlords, you need to pay now" One of my (still to this day) closest friends and I are grinding 10-20 limit in Chicago on a shared bankroll. We would print ~$5-10k on a good month, but the last few weeks have been terrible. We scrape up all the change in the apartment and stack the quarters up like poker chips. 6 stacks of 20 each. We play our usual rap music mix on the way to the casino, hopeful as we head to put this $1400 into action. 6 hours and dozens of limit holdem beats later, we drive back busted, in silence. Get home and use one stack of the quarters to buy cigarettes.

"I ran the sim, Palestine is only freed by mass murder at a festival, raping, taking hostages, and parading dead ravers around in the bed of a Hilux screaming "God is Great." I denounce anyone who uses religion for hate, but somehow the above does not apply." - @JustinBonomo

❤️❤️❤️ My daughter & I play HU limit hold'em freeze outs. 40 chips & 1-2 blinds. One such game I had her down to 1 chip, yet she came back to win. It was a big moment for her. She chose to write about it for her "My best game ever" composition assignment. ❤️❤️❤️

This is so baller I can't even help myself. 2023: 2nd 2024: 1st 2025: 1st All 1,000+ fields. Amazing. WSOP history!

The first sanctioned chop in WSOP history!

Normalize giving @Kevmath $100 the first time you see him each summer.

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I got you fam.

Based AF Daniel. On the point of the boxer, likely a DSD person, traits of both male & female. Doesn't fit into either category. Enough male traits to certainly disqualify from fighting women.

When you lose in the marketplace of ideas, block and retreat to your echo chamber.

Story from 2007/8ish WSOP: I lived in Vegas at the time and loved walking the Rio right when it opened for the WSOP. See the changes they made, get familiar with the room names, and play a SnG. The SnGs used to be called single table satellites. It was the cheapest way to get WSOP action and would attract all sorts of insane people, especially at the very start of the series. This year they opened at midnight and around 2am I found myself starting a ~$300 SnG with 9 other degens. In the opening level of play, 25-25 with 1000 starting chips, the table is silent, until a young LA player, clearly a little fucked up, addresses the table and says: "I know who has the good drugs at this table!" [Everyone sorta freezes] "This guy!" [Points to the old man across from him] Old man then immediately produces a pill bottle and throws it across the table to the young LA player, who takes one, swallows it, passes the bottle to his friend on the rail who does the same. Bottle is passed back to the old man who says "Now let's play some fucking cards!" It was a different time.

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I remember the outpouring of love (and rage) in the immediate aftermath: theverge.com/2013/1/14/38744… Let's keep fighting in Aaron's name. He was so passionate about making scientific information free. Support @Sci_Hub & make new ones. We must keep fighting!

24 handed redraw, table 420, right where I belong.

I know NFTs are dead and all, but, ha, the Rare Pepe OGs just laugh. We were dead for 3 years back there, and this time "Dead" is when Nakamoto card still sells for $100k 🤣 The great @EmblemVault migration marks a Rare Pepe renaissance 2.0. For the first time, the set can be properly digested by the much wider audience of ETH head NFT collectoooors and tradoooors. I don't make the rules, I just have a big bag of frog jpegs and love being the Pepe plug.

I was a Bitcoin maximalist until Core refused to recognize the rising fee market as a major issue & instead spent lots of energy bashing the people I respect in the space. Now Bitcoin doesn't make sense for daily transactions & I'm looking at other cryptos for solutions.

At the final table with all the time in the world.

My 1 @RepPorter story: One WSOP before I had my daughter, I asked Rep why he didn't defend his $1500 Stud8 title that year. He said his daughter had a dance recital. I didn't get it. Now I get it. #FanForLife

You either want to see two players capture an extra milly from an entity likely to rake 10 figs or you want to see two players lose 2+ milly because you haven't thought this through.

I'm 100% serious and I know some VCs and super rich crypto ppl follow and respect me: Please fund a bid to buy the WSOP. Prolly a $50-$150m brand as poorly as it's run, me & @MattGlantz will turn it into multi-billion dollar brand in 3 years. So much low hanging fruit.

Just spoke to @rogerkver's attorney: He's in the same prison as McAfee, doesn't feel like he's in any danger, 100% not thinking of killing himself, and looking forward to fighting the case. #FreeRoger

The polar opposite of EDC is a Razz tournament.

Well, he cut off communication with his friends, disappeared for a few months, then murdered a guy in broad daylight. Couple of yellow flags at the very least.

My daughter knows how to meme her way into my heart. ❤️❤️❤️

Without a reasonable understanding of drug culture I don't think a top pro can understand what's going on here. I'm reading your girl for having a top top pharma game. Seems smoothed out. IMO pretty easy to see she misreads her hand, then panics and says some nonsense.

Very few real ones out there. Feels lucky to still have a handful in my orbit. Decades in the game. Most of the old crew is long gone. Some stole when they went broke, some fell off on opiate pills. Hug your OGs, kids.

Micon family, Vegas 2023

Controversial viewpoint: I think @rogerkver is trying to do everything in his power to change the world for the better. He is doing what he thinks is best for humanity. It may not be how you would go about it, but his goal is widespread economic freedom. Admirable, IMO.

If anyone wants to back a group lead by me to buy the WSOP I'll put half my net worth into it so you know I'm serious and will try really hard.

This is why religion is so dangerous. Once you decide to suspend logic for one thing, you can apply the method to other things. Eventually you can just make up whatever and believe yourself. Now add a large social following and you have built a powerful batshit echo chamber.

My middle east scorecard / takes: - Initial terrorism is absolutely horrific. - 2m humans in Gaza not having freedom of movement for a generation is pretty fucked up & it's easy to see why a generation of Palestinians hate Israel. - That being said, you can't murder people in their homes. Or at a festival. - The two main military bases guarding Gaza entrances were fair game, IMO. - Religion is almost always the root cause of the most fucked up human behavior. We should stop normalizing it. - Most of the media you consume about this has an element of propaganda in it. All sides, all sources. Were they terrorists or freedom fighters? Reclaiming rightful land or invaders? Was the photo staged? Rapid-fire clickbait all around. The battle for your mind rages onward. - The immediate statements made by leftist groups from various universities should be a wake up call. This is how it starts in the history books. The Chicago BLM, an org that started as a needed voice against police brutality, evidently became a Marxist shitshow in just a few short years. The paratrooper post might completely dismantle that org, becoming a great example of how a single meme can bring it all down. - The right-leaning pundits seems more bloodthirsty than usual on this one. - Pro-Palestinian support needs a disclaimer at the beginning like "The terrorism and Hamas are denounced in the strongest of terms... " then make the (valid) argument in favor of freeing the Palestinians. - Pro-Palestinian support can't contain rhetoric to erase Israel. Argue the borders, sure. The West Bank is absolutely in play. But no river to the sea bullshit. - I don't blame my Jewish friends for posting strawman Instagram propaganda. When emotions run high, logic takes a back seat. They trained since birth to +1 this type of shit. - The various pan-leftist movements have given us brilliantly ironic unions, such as "Queers for Palestine." - Collective punishment is a war crime - The international community should have place a much higher priority on unfucking this situation. - Always remember Egypt controls one of the Gaza borders, and they too don't want that smoke. - The loss of innocent civilian life, wherever it occurs, is equally tragic, and those that score it differently should show their work. - lol @ pledging support for either side in this geopolitical shitshow. Both have blood on their hands, and it most likely does not affect you.

Cock sucker Mizokowski

Congrats on the bracelet @DanSmithHolla

Been some years, but I'm ready again. Main Event.

350k+ on a heater in $1500 o8

Religion is like a computer virus for the human brain. Infects from generation to generation. Proud of my wife and I for breaking the cycle with our daughter. Imagine any other context where you can float the idea of a guy dying and getting magically reborn.

Starting to rethink my position on Bitcoin Cash. Bitcoin will have high fees until sidechains, while BCH offers low fees & many markets...

The Rare Pepe Gallery in @decentraland. rarepepegallery.dcl.eth -23, 69 Only legit 2016-18 @CounterpartyXCP #RarePepes in @EmblemVault ETH containers. Standing on the backs of giants: @Rizkgh @toonpunk23 @shannoncode @wasthatawolf @ScrillaVentura @shawnleary @Zederwan

I've seen most Harris supporters approach the election from a position of "Look at how bad Trump is" without ever looking seriously at the Democratic party.

Roger: I'm innocent of what the government has charged me with. Lopp: RoGEr DiDnT pAy HiS TaXEs Fake ass Libertarian. Down for the cause until it happens to a guy he doesn't like.

Hi @bp22, you are blinding out of the $10k HU bracelet event on GG. I know you want to #DieWithZero but there are better ways!

Every poker player is now a political analyst. Reminds me of 2 years ago when they were crypto experts. 😂😂😂 lol don't @ me & nice loss shooting off on political donations & pissing each other off. $ICX

Prediction: If Harris wins, there will be a mostly peaceful next day. Some protests and gatherings but no big fires or widespread damage. Claims of a steal. If Trump wins, there will be some civil unrest the next day. Protests will get rowdy, stuff will burn, looting and/or significant damage.

Busted HORSE but did it in style.

Spoke to @rogerkver's lawyer again recently. He's still in Barcelona, still locked up, and still in good spirits. His legal team is hoping to free him from the Spanish cage next week.

Imagine being so woke you support terrorism

This fold though, @phil_hellmuth

My statement regarding CSM...

Wifey looking 🔥 🔥 🔥 My best friend, brilliant, and a total smokeshow. Been together almost 2 decades. She knocked on my door 17yrs ago with car trouble on her way home from the law firm. Still can't believe how lucky I am.

The worst day of the year for any poker player is when they bust the 2nd online main event for the 3rd time.

Lmao @adiokingeth I guess I got hustled 😂😂😂 Invited on to shill my 1-15 set but ended up buying a @RareApepeYC and putting it in the Rare Pepe Gallery (-23, 69 in @decentraland) Fuck it, you guys deserve it. It gets upgraded to gold if the set sells by 8/27 🤝

Every time I use Bitcoin Cash I get reminded of how things were "supposed" to work for Bitcoin. The ease of on-chain use is unfortunately lost in the current layer 2 solutions.

Might fuck around and video blog the 2024 WSOP. Someone needs to properly document this dump.

If you are brilliant with DevOps/networking and want to rage quit polite society and move to the Caribbean and work for me in this tower building crypto shit slide into my DMs.

I think we shamed @phil_hellmuth into taking off the scam coin hat. Good decision Phil! The Internet remains undefeated.

One time, many years ago (pre-Bitcoin) I went to the @MResort buffet with @AllenKessler. Allen walks in, head-nods a line cook, who instantly starts preparing an entire plate of plain chicken breasts. Some people make fun of him but this guy is a total boss living his best life.

Lmao @nikairball shows up about an hour late and immediately stacks a guy. So on brand.

Then he shouldn't owe membership fees!

This is how championship poker should look like. Stacks on stacks.

We're friends now. 🤝 @RealKidPoker

In 9-game, one of the levels is referred to as "3/6/9" (300 sb, 600 bb, 900 ante) I quipped this is the "lil John level" and got nothing but crickets. (you could hear the actual crickets) This is funny, right?

Time to run it up

This one has baffled me for years. Somehow @annieduke has this amazing reputation in high end corporate motivational speaker circles despite the massive debacles of Epic & UB & the poker world dragging her every time a story like this breaks.

Its time for... THE MAIN EVENT!

For the culture:

Congratulations to both buyer [@nohbhodi] and seller [@yellowsub86] as the Nakamoto card trades again, this time for 69.420 ETH, ~$160k USD. Deal brokered by @official_coder, with a little help from the RAREPEPEDEALER over here. Note: If you still have XCP assets in legacy @EmblemVault, @shannoncode is suggesting you crack and re-vault to the curated set. Not sure what to do about multi-asset legacy vaults like complete Zed sets, but worst case it's a 12-asset re-vault to curated. In a perfect world @pepe__wtf would record this verified P2P sale to keep better price history of this grail.

The "Rare Pepe Minute" where I run down the current state of the Rare Pepe market. Since @EmblemVault dropped the curated vaults, we are once again in motion on everyone's favorite frog jpegs.

Better do it bro

My vision board for @WSOP 2024 (by @wasthatawolf)

Congrats to @krissyb24poker & @WAFoxen for crushing poker tournaments recently! The crowd at Vipers pool in Antigua 🇦🇬 has been informed of your achievements!

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1) @phil_hellmuth, at his core, tries hard to be a nice guy. 2) When in a poker game, he undergoes a very distinct personality change. It often turns off and on between hands. 3) A PhD level study could be done on this phenomenon. 4) Easy to understand why others are upset.

Decent run for my first WSOP event in 5 years.

These dumbasses screaming "Tax the rich" really piss me off. Feels like they are just mad someone else is rich & turn off all critical thinking because of it. Note to the edge lords that say this: THINK ABOUT WHERE THAT MONEY GOES - TO THE MURDEROUS, WASTEFUL GOVERNMENT. You really want to forcefully transfer wealth from individuals to the same org that wages endless wars? Do you believe the government will suddenly, miraculously do a 180 and start using this newfound money fairly and ethically? If you pump money into the government they waste it. Or kill people with it. If the United states had high quality, free healthcare, a European style high speed rail system, brilliant public spaces, free high speed internet, and free high quality education that didn't indoctrinate your kids into some fringe sexual orientation, you might have a case to tax the rich. I mean, I'd fight you to the death against it, but at least you would have a platform to argue from. In the current form of the US government, screaming "tax the rich" is like saying "please keep punching me in the face but this time use brass knuckles." These economic idiots love this line. They must feel so noble when they say it. It likely gets them laid, albeit by some smelly underarm haired credit card hippy whose only understanding of economics is to borrow from their parents when they run low, as their LGBTQ#§ Free Palestine activist job isn't really paying the bills. Within that lens it's easy to see how they support the current system of governance, which is basically the same grift, but instead of borrowing from parents they rob from your kids. And your kids' kids. See the growing national debt for reference. Some of the rich are pieces of shit, I'll give you that. Some of those lucky recipients of dynastic wealth will never understand the real world and will always be assholes. But the good rich people built literally everything you love. That car you drive, that delivery service, the device you are reading this on, literally every piece of technology that makes your life better. All made by a rich person. The "tax the rich" crowd doesn't understand economics one bit. They think money is some cloud instance that falls randomly, and the lucky recipients should share. Now they aren't completely wrong, as 1000 years from now those future humans will laugh (cry) at our current wealth concentrations, but they will live in a far more ethical society, hopefully akin to the ancient Romans where the top 300 wealthiest people had the honor of paying taxes and building great public utilities for the plebs. They would/will spend big and try hard to make their contributions super useful, because we all know what rich people really want - to be loved and respected - which is not something money can directly buy. Back to the big misunderstanding. VALUE IS CREATED It's not random. If someone builds something useful and others find it so useful they pay their hard earned money for it, you have created value. Sometimes a person pays money to someone else for something they can use to do useful things for others, and this value creation starts to snowball. Imagine a farmer buying a tractor to grow crops to sell to a large # of hungry people. Taxing the value creators to do things like the USA government does, i.e. fund wars, which btw is really just shipping the money to Raytheon who ships the bombs to whatever country we "gave the money to," is a great stopper in that free market value creation cycle. The free market never wants to kill people, but your government is addicted to it. "Tax the rich" leftists, you can either believe in free market value creation or you can stay retarded, the choice is yours.

Normalize giving @Kevmath $100 the first time you see him every summer, 2025 edition.

The #Bitcoin community loves to make fun of @rogerkver, but he's 100% spot on with his history here. The early meetups used to be held at restaurants that accepted BTC, we wanted to reward them for their adoption. Then around 2017 the narrative shifted to "It's not for coffee."

Looks like @adam3us is spending a lot of energy throwing shade on @rogerkver & Bitcoin Cash. Quite curious for the CEO of an influential Core-focused company. The high fees are destroying the Bitcoin brand & Core has blinders on. #ScaredSayScared

FOMO'd into @PokerGO $15k 8game

Roger is 1000x the man you are. Shame on you for cheering state-sanctioned violence against a peaceful man you disagree with.

The average poker player I met while playing $1500 WSOP tournaments: - has ~$3k in cash on them - has a negative net worth - recently returned from an exotic trip - 50/50 coinflip they either live in an apartment w/other dudes or a 5 bedroom mansion w/pool & somehow pay $0 rent.

We are calling it, #Bitcoin ATH Rita is coming up next!

If you are an aimless Adderall addict in your 20s that wants to grind and learn all sorts of random crypto shit and live in the Caribbean and work for me slide into DMs. I need a hungry analyst.

The world is marketing, Ike. The middle of the bell curve poker content consumer loves this, and loves Phil. @phil_hellmuth is beloved. When you have dinner with him at the Aria he is approached by many people for autograph/selfie. Even if you are purely greedy, you love this happening because it pumps your exact poker economy. How many times have you seen a VIP happy to meet Phil? The world really is marketing. All of it. From why Phil dresses up as a cliche to why you wear a mask.

Studying top signals of past irrational markets.

He wouldn't need a pardon if there wasn't massive government overreach, saying he owes $58m a decade after he renounced.

Civilized societies will tolerate religious nonsense so long as it doesn't harm anyone else. The moment you start harming others, like fucking up a quarantine that epidemiologists predict will save millions of lives, rationalist are gonna have a problem. Religion is poison.

If you liked smoking weed in the Rio parking lot on WSOP breaks you would have been in @ $10.

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Imagine cheering the disgusting, murderous, wasteful government shaking down a business man you disagree with.

Hey @PokerGO when you want to do a "Caribbean Week" get at me.

I've told this story before but it goes here too: Allen invites me to the M buffet. It was legend back then. Allen was a regular. We walk in, he head-nods a line cook, who instantly begins to prepare him a fresh plate of plain chicken. Baller shit.