Lukas en route to WSOP 2013 (photo: Frank Flintstone)

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A useful Las Vegas city bus trip tool

For the baller-on-a-budget!

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"How to use rideRTC with your mobile phone:

1. Compose a text message to 41411
2. Type rideRTC followed by a space and then the bus stop id number, for example: rideRTC 292
3. Within seconds you will receive a text message with the next three scheduled stops at your location

*Standard text message rates apply."


[from http://www.rtcsnv.com/transit/routes-maps-schedules/ridertc/ ]

Lukas Jackson will raise

Stepfather visits Grand Canyon

Shoes & Pants Colour Guide

"The Perfect Match"

[from http://ca.askmen.com/fashion/fashiontip_150/162_fashion_advice.html  ]

#futureclassic #uptempo Gentleman Ghost Dad #movietape

https://soundcloud.com/geistvater/beatinductionvol2

I made this mix of some of my fave tunes for one and all to enjoy!

001 Open Your Eyes - Calibre [Signature]
002 Never Never - Klute [Commercial Suicide]
003 Solitary Native - Alix Perez & Sabre [Shogun Audio]
004 I Refuse - Netsky [Spearhead]
005 Atlantis (Marky & SPY rework) - LTJ Bukem [Good Looking]
006 The Golden Section - Technimatic [Hospital]
007 Break My Heart - L.A.O.S. [Bass=Win]
008 Beautiful Lies - B-Complex [Hospital]
009 Enigma - Break [Quarantine]
010 Music (Technicolour remix) - LTJ Bukem [Good Looking]
011 Afterthought - Ivy Lab [Critical]
012 Embers - Blocks & Escher [Narratives]
013 Fade Away - Lenzman ft. Jo-S [Soul:R]
014 True Romance - D-Bridge [Metalheadz]
015 Broken Dreams - Lenzman [Metalheadz]
016 Thinner Edge - D.Kay & Intoxicated [Integral]
017 Away With Me (Calibre remix) - Spectrasoul ft.Tamara Blessa [Shogun Audio]
018 Golden Girl (vocal mix) - Makoto ft. MC Conrad [Good Looking]
019 Desperado - Artificial Intelligence [V-recordings]
020 Heaven (Nu:Tone remix) - Emeli Sande [E.M.I.]

"We are so small against the stars, so large against the sky..."

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"So, Are Poker Tournaments Bad Investments?

Here’s an interesting thought: When you initially buy into the above SNG for $530, the chips you receive are only worth $330, because of the average value of zero chips to each of the ten starting players. So, why would any intelligent poker player pay $530 for only $330 worth of chips? In a cash game, his $530 would purchase $530 worth of chips. Doesn’t this make a tournament a bad investment?

Before we answer this question, let’s consider what the chips are worth in a major tournament, rather than a hypothetical ten-player SNG. What are the $10,000 in chips worth that you purchase when you enter the main event of the WSOP? Let’s use the recent 2006 event as a model, but we’ll round off the numbers for convenience, and again, ignore the house fee.

In the 2006 WSOP main event, there were 8700 entrants who paid a total of $87 million to purchase chips. Of the $87 million in chips purchased, $12 million went to the winner. That means $75 million was paid out to players who finished with zero chips!

The average dollar value of a zero-chip finish at the start of the tournament was therefore $75,000,000 divided by the 8699 non-first-place finishers, or about $8,600. Which is to say, assuming this was entirely a non-skill event (yeah, right!), the chips any individual player purchased for $10,000 had a dollar value of less than $1400, because if he ultimately managed to collect all $87 million in chips in play, he would be paid less than 14 cents on the dollar of the chips’ initial purchase cost.

Now, let’s ask again why any intelligent poker player would pay $10,000 for only $1400 worth of chips? Wouldn’t this purchase be a bad investment?

Not at all. Tournaments are not cash games. In a cash game, you can never be paid for losing all of your chips. If you lose your $10,000 buy-in in a cash game, you go home broke. In a tournament, if you have the skill to outlast enough of your competitors, you can bust out—literally leave the table with zero chips—and cash out for substantially more than you bought in for.

  
Tournaments with percentage payout structures are designed to pay players for exhibiting exceptional skill, even if they do not beat all competitors. The chips’ dollar value is a minor factor. Let me repeat:

 

Poker Tournaments Are Not Cash Games

 

If you read the history of the WSOP, you’ll find that when it started in 1970, and for the first eight years, the main event was played with a winner-take-all format. During those early tournaments, every chip purchased really did have an exact dollar value based on its cost (or it would have had an equal value if the tournament players all had equal skill, which they probably did not)..."

(From Blackjack Forum , Fall 2006)
© Arnold Snyder 2006
http://www.blackjackforumonline.com/content/correcting_poker_tournament_chip_value.htm