I am a literal legend of gambling, ask me anything.

I am a literal legend of gambling, ask me anything.

What im doing is a gift to this dead site but they will probably lock the thread since they want no traffic or interest.

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26 October 2023 at 02:13 AM
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by ejames209

what's the most egregious angle shoot you've ever seen at a live game?

Oh god theres so many, a few by me! (once someone angle shoots i consider them fair game and im soooo much better at it than they are. that said a rarely respond because nearly all angle shooters are such fish i dont want to antagonize them)). Theres one you can watch on the old LATB it was posted on you tube at some point so its sort of interesting to see it in action. Israeli guy raises as bluff on river, opponent is tanking, opponent touches his chips. israeli guy says "bad call! i got the nuts" and slams his hand over but only a card that would make the nuts shows (blocker). guy says "i didn't call!" israeli says, "the chips moved forward". then the guy basically says "you ****ied up" and folds then israeli guy shows the bluff. lololololol.


by AlanBostick

If some cardroom or casino not in the LA area started a livestreamed game, what would they have to do to get you to do commentary on it? Assume you could do it over the Internet rather than from a booth on-site.

Firstly, a few bucks to show they were serious. i dont do **** for free, not because the money matters, but because payment is a show of respect and proof that its not some fly by night nonsense. I would actually want to be onsite and i would want the show to be recorded LIVE (no delay for commentators) the way the old LATB was done. it gives a sense of urgency and fun and spontaneous interaction. commentators watching a taped show on delay is soul draining. Imagine sportscasters not being at the game watching it on an hour delay and giving stale commentary from a bunker. it would be ****ing awful. modern poker commentary is AWFUL.


I have vague recollections of you offering a standing WSOP Main Event ROI bet where people can pick a list of players to collectively beat a certain ROI.

If I'm not mistaken and this was a real thing, what are the parameters and what's the minimum $$ you would be willing to book?


by DogFace

I have vague recollections of you offering a standing WSOP Main Event ROI bet where people can pick a list of players to collectively beat a certain ROI.

If I'm not mistaken and this was a real thing, what are the parameters and what's the minimum $$ you would be willing to book?

yes. you can pick 100 players at 1.6 (if you just pick the top 100 in the world they all sell for more than that) and if they cash for more than 1.6 you win!!! (these parameters could be modified slightly) money must be escrowed. We can probably get down as much action as you want. DM me.


by limon

yes. you can pick 100 players at 1.6 (if you just pick the top 100 in the world they all sell for more than that) and if they cash for more than 1.6 you win!!! (these parameters could be modified slightly) money must be escrowed. We can probably get down as much action as you want. DM me.

Noted. I'm going to see if I can come up with a list, and then I'll reach out if I want to do it. The Main is still a couple weeks away.


what was the most insane thing you've ever seen in regards to playing politics to gain an invite to the live stream?


I’ve tested a bunch of poker apps lately, but most seem either soft or full of bots.
Anyone here actually tried Pokergaga? Curious whether the video chat makes any real difference or just another feature to look cool.


by limon

I'm the wrong guy to ask. when i ran LATB there was ZERO politics. We had a public board and it was 1st come 1st serve. It was one of the things that me and feldman disagreed about, i didn't care at all about pro players or important people or high stakes. I wanted the stream to be by and for the subscribers. Ive heard lots of rumors though and feldman even got removed from LAT

Why’d you stop running live at the bike?

How long til some room decides enough of this BS let’s go back to public games? Every player I know (pro and rec) is sick of the private game bs in LA and LV, can’t even find a public game to play bigger than 5/10. People will flock if a place offers a fair way of getting seats in a big game


by TheOneWhoYawns

Why’d you stop running live at the bike?

How long til some room decides enough of this BS let’s go back to public games? Every player I know (pro and rec) is sick of the private game bs in LA and LV, can’t even find a public game to play bigger than 5/10. People will flock if a place offers a fair way of getting seats in a big game

If there was a "fair" way to get seats those game just wouldn't run anymore, or at least very few of them.


What is Twitter’s most recent accusation against you? I see they banned you again but I can’t see anything in your actual recent posts that seems any more ban-worthy than all the ones that came before it.


Yea, it seemed very abrupt. I didn’t know about such things happening on that site, which obviously clash with their free speech mantra. Anyway, good to hear you on some other podcasts. ✌��


Thoughts on the WSOP collusion/chop incident?


You can't say BlueSky on 2p2???


by AlanBostick

You can't say BlueSky on 2p2???

No idea. I tried twice and both times post was deleted within a couple of minutes.

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by ZippyThePinhead

No idea. I tried twice and both times post was deleted within a couple of minutes.

Sent from my SM-S908U1 using Tapatalk

the bot is completely out of control. makes having a back and forth conversation of any kind completely impossible.


Can you compile a list of lottery numbers for me? It's for the UK Thunderball. There are 39 numbers and I'm using just 20 of them - 20-39 inclusive. I wish to pick 14 lines of five numbers. The first four lines are 20-24;25-29; 30-34; 35-39. My aim is to try and have the best chance of getting two numbers in any one line. Numbers in each line except the first four lines should not be consecutive (if possible). All numbers must be used equally (or as close to it as possible).

I tried doing it by hand and with ChatGPT and Grok (useless), then by hand again. I managed to get a good spread but some numbers are too frequent, and some too infrequent in my list. The idea is to pair all numbers with as many other numbers as possible. So once a number is paired with another number, it should not be paired with that number again (because being paired once is enough). So to start off with we can see that each number in the first four lines won't need to get paired with any number that is already in the same line. So for example we do not need to pair 20 with any of 21, 22, 23, 24 again. Not using consecutive numbers isn't mathematically required, so that can be ignored if necessary. So for example 24 and 25; 29 and 30 and 34 and 35 would make sense if better for the calculation. I know we can't cover all possible combinations in the 10 lines we have to use so excluding non-consecutive numbers narrows it down, is my thinking. And the fact that consecutive numbers are drawn less frequently adds to why this looks to be a sensible way to do it. Plus we already have a ton of consecutive numbers in the first four lines, mainly because I didn't know how else to start off a grid to make it calculable. Therefore a whole fresh lot of 15 lines would be fine, as the first four lines were simply a baseline for my convenience.

I hope this explains what I want clearly enough. Thanks if you can do it! I need it for next Wednesday please.


by samsmoot

Can you compile a list of lottery numbers for me? It's for the UK Thunderball. There are 39 numbers and I'm using just 20 of them - 20-39 inclusive. I wish to pick 14 lines of five numbers. The first four lines are 20-24;25-29; 30-34; 35-39. My aim is to try and have the best chance of getting two numbers in any one line. Numbers in each line except the first four lines should

ok, ive finished. I must admit i thought it was sort of pointless when i started working on it but once finished i saw the beauty and strategy in these number sets. I want to play these numbers on american powerball and mega millions as well, we can be partners. Send me $10,000 to buy the tickets and i will split any winnings with you and send you the completed number sets!!! WE'RE GONNA BE RICH!!! (please have the money wired to me before next wednesday please)


Why are you wasting my time? Am I supposed to be amused? Where's me jumper?


by samsmoot

Why are you wasting my time? Am I supposed to be amused? Where's me jumper?

Precisely who is wasting whose time, again?


by samsmoot

Why are you wasting my time? Am I supposed to be amused? Where's me jumper?

time is relative anyway


Do you think position in poker is more important/more valuable in a tough game or a splashy/passive/fish game? (Not necessarily more profitable, bc that will always be the fish game-- but strictly just power of position)

Couple friends debating this and view it differently.


by kaisutek

Do you think position in poker is more important/more valuable in a tough game or a splashy/passive/fish game? (Not necessarily more profitable, bc that will always be the fish game-- but strictly just power of position)

Couple friends debating this and view it differently.

its far more important to have position on tough/fearless type players than fish in general. in fact, its better to have lagtard fish have position on you because you get to run their predictable bets/raises through the entire field before it gets back to you.


Back in my limit hold'em grinding days, we called this "relative position," because if the player to our left was the action player, we could decide whether or not to close the action.

Relative position does not seem to be a thing in the modern NLHE game.


by AlanBostick

Back in my limit hold'em grinding days, we called this "relative position," because if the player to our left was the action player, we could decide whether or not to close the action.

Relative position does not seem to be a thing in the modern NLHE game.

Gto bot chart type poker doesn’t think about this stuff or take it into account. Modern poker strat is defensive nonsense. It’s built around sitting in bad games. Once you are in a really good game all the rules change. The tings you should be thinking about flip.


by limon

Gto bot chart type poker doesn’t think about this stuff or take it into account. Modern poker strat is defensive nonsense. It’s built around sitting in bad games. Once you are in a really good game all the rules change. The tings you should be thinking about flip.

Lol

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