I am going to sell action to the following tournaments in packages:

Package A

16 NLH HU $10,000
19 PLH $5,000
32 NLH 6-max $5,000
41 PLO 6-max $5,000
57 NLH $5,000

I am definitely going to play the HU, and I will play 3 of 4 of the other tournaments. I would say I'm most likely to skip either #19 or #57. I will definitely play #32 and cannot conveniently leave it off the package since its my best event and play the others. Selling at 1.2 markup so $3000 gets you 10% and that's the minimum you can buy. If anyone buys all of it, I'll sell at 1.15. I will play the events even if I don't sell my intended target. PM me if you have payment questions but I would prefer cash at WSOP or a bank transfer of some sort. If you sweet talk me, I might take Stars.

Package B

52 NLH 6-max $25,000

Selling 60-75% to this at 1.1; if anyone buys all of it, I'll sell at 1.05. Same deal with payment. Min 10% = 2750.

Package C

47 NLH $111,111

Will play this only if I can sell 90% at face, so if you know anyone looking to make a large and swell investment let me know.

I've never won anything and I've never sold for WSOP so I feel like this is the time both of those things will coincide.

Also, if anyone can let me know who I have to PM or sleep with to be able to post in the 2+2 marketplace that would be sweet in case I don't snap sell out here.

I am looking to speak with both a writer and a programmer about possible employment opportunities. I'm not really certain what I'm looking for in either just yet, but I want to ask some preliminary questions about how difficult certain tasks would be within each industry (as far as programming goes, I'm a novice but I'm looking for someone who has experience with databases and scraping information from various sources). Although there is no need for a proper resume, I'd like to know your background in the field, so please include it in the PM to me.

It's likely that any employment would start off on a project by project basis and this should not be looked at as a full time job opportunity just yet.

A while back I wrote a few blog posts on the Poker Training Industry[1]. Most of you could probably feel the unrest in the tone of my voice. In a post Black Friday poker world, the status quo for Leggo (and similarly modeled poker training) wasn’t practical—beyond that, it wasn’t feasible.

I’ve owned Leggo for over three years now and been part of the project since day one over five years ago. Over this time there were some ups and downs, but I’m very confident in the quality we put out. I try hard to be objective, and I believe there were stretches when we were the best. Whenever I see someone give props to myself or Leggo on 2+2 or Twitter or Facebook, I'm thrilled they appreciate the content.

I’m often asked (or I was, back when I played a bit more poker) if I’m glad that I started to make training videos. The truth is that I have no idea if it was +EV for my poker career. Attempting to quantify such a thing would be feeble—I’m sure revealing as much as I did hurt my winrate at times, I’m sure making poker videos has gained me some amount of moderate fame that I wouldn't have otherwise, I’m sure I stayed a bit sharper with the responsibility to explain the plays I was making. I’m also sure I had a lot of fun.

[2]What some of you may be able to tell from watching my videos is that I’m a natural. This may sound a little like bragging, this may even technically be bragging, but it is also fact: oftentimes I will be rambling at a thousand words a minute about a topic in a poker video, deep in a debate with myself about the merits of checking back the flop and how my opponent will react to various turn and river combinations, and I’ll also be asking myself Hmm... What do I want for dinner? [3] I’d like to think my videos informed, incited, and entertained (not necessarily in that order), so I supposed the Utilitarian way to look at things would be that they were +EV for the poker community as a whole. Sounds like a win to me, and it’s more fun when you win! [4]

Most of all I want to thank a bunch of people: Matt and Vitas [5], for working hard when everyone else was hardly working; everyone who I became friends with or enhanced my relationship through Leggo (Ashton, Chewy, Dan, Ben most notably); everyone who ever made a video, even those with very short stays who made revealing videos for much less than their hourly (Jimmie, Rich, Ashton, Ben[6]); especially those who turned in videos early and often and made my job so much easier; and of course, any coaches whose wife made me dinner—the best way to get into my “thank you paragraph” is through my stomach, of course.

If this sounds like the end of an era it might be, but it’s the beginning of something better. I no longer own Leggo, I sold it to Phil Ivey. In the summer we will launch Ivey League[7], a training site that is more comprehensive than Leggo was ever able to be. I want to keep the same mission Leggo has always had at the core, but expand our ability to educate on Live Tournaments, PLO, and even Mixed Games. The additional resources Ivey Poker offers will make this all possible.

This probably sounds far fetched to all of you. After spending time with Phil recently, I can assure you that his level of excitement for this project is very high [8]. He sees an opportunity to make a comprehensive poker network with his name attached and he personally prioritized training [9]. What I’m trying to say is: today, a social poker game; tomorrow, the world!

Over the coming months I will keep a blog about the development of Ivey League. It’s imperative that we get as much input as possible from you, our members (current and future), about what you want from the site. To wrap things up, I’ll do a quick Q and A with myself about the future of Leggo and what’ll happen going forward. Congratulations for reading this far, you sir [10] are a gentlemen and a scholar.

Q: Is Phil Ivey really going to make poker training videos?
A: He already has.

Q: What happens now?
A: Leggo will exist until Ivey League is operational (a few months, best guess). We will begin to infuse some pros from Ivey League into our monthly lineup.

Q: Will Leggo pros continue to make videos for Ivey League?
A: Likely. We’re hoping to move some of our most popular producers over to Ivey League, but it’s likely the roster will get trimmed. Your voice will be heard on this one, speak up if there are producers you feel strongly about, especially low and mid stakes guys.

Q: What kind of training videos will we expect to see?
A: A wide variety. For now you’ll mostly see hand history review, theory, math, and conversational videos (dual videos or interview style). I expect there will be a few kinks to iron out, but we’ve got a lot of awesome options.

Q: Will you continue to make training videos?
A: Thanks for asking, I’m flattered. I will, but I’d like to cut back my production a bit since I’ve been making 2+ a month for years (also since I’m playing less poker). I think I might be good in some dual videos interviewing players better than myself (although admittedly my interviewing skills are marginal at the moment, I’m sure I can get better).

Q: What will happen to our current Leggo subscriptions?
A: All Leggo subscription obligations will be filled appropriately (which may include even better value from Ivey League).

Q: Will Ivey League be $30 a month?
A: Definitely not. We’ll continue to take your input on our business model but ultimately you can expect to see tiered pricing and possibly even a la carte videos.

[1] Part 1, Part 2
[2] This paragraph is going to be incredibly masturbatory. I’ve become a lot more humble over the years (but I guess at various points there was no way to become less humble), but this is my good-bye to Leggo, let me have my fun, damnit.
[3] The answer is always Chipotle.
[4] Trademark: Ivey Poker.
[5] Those two names listed alphabetically, God forbid one of them think I was showing a little favoritism toward the other.
[6] That includes boywonder (bet you haven’t heard that name in a while!), 86 (yes, there are so many Bens in poker we’ve shortened this one to just 86, especially with a last name that is dicey to pronounce), and Sauce (who I am perhaps most thankful to, for being there until the end, for wanting to give back for the sake of giving back—I’d be shocked if a better poker mind exists).
[7] It took Chewy weeks to figure out the cleverness of this name. In other news, it may or may not be 500,000 miles from Las Vegas to Florida.
[8] As excited as Phil gets anyway. I think I saw him smirk, once.
[9] My theory is that he just wants to make a bunch of people good enough to play with him—but he knows that no amount of training would make them good enough to beat him, of course.
[10] Or ma’am.

What most women don't know is that we (men) spend 93% of our time thinking about sex. Thankfully, I'm not here to talk about that 93% of the time. I'm here to talk about what we think of the second most, and that is what to do in the event of the Zombie Apocalypse (6%).

I've created a pie chart in case you're lost already.



Like most things in life, there is a lot of misinformation out there, so I thought I'd really educate the masses on the proper way to do things. I thought briefly about making a video out of this, but it's really important that I just get everything out to the public as soon as possible. We'll start by taking a look at some of the variables at play:

1. How do the zombies behave?

Most of the time there are clear rules about zombie behavior, but occasionally they'll just randomly do things that make no sense. For the most part, we can quantify a few things: zombies can't climb ladders or open doors, they like to eat human flesh, and if you shoot them in the head, they will "die." [1]

2. How does the disease spread?

Essentially we're looking at "if a zombie bites you, you will become a zombie." Again, we're dealing with a bit of variance here, so I'd highly recommend you don't drink from the same glass as a zombie, share needles, or double dip in communal guacamole. [2]

3. How many "people" have the disease?

At the point that we've decided the ZA [3] is here, the world will probably be FUBAR [4]. Quarantining the disease hasn't worked, there is no cure, and we haven't been able to ship all the sick people off to France [5]. Be VERY wary of who you deal with: the lines between human and zombie can be blurred at times and full survival mode will be in effect.

So, what do we do now?

Strength in numbers. The most important thing is to find weapons and a team of guys that you trust. You'll need analytical types, people who are good with computers, and guys who can handle a gun. Bonus points if you find guys who have multiple skills. Bonus points if they are familiar with agriculture [6]. Ideally, these bros are your bros and you go way back and have been bro'ing since high school or so. In a distrustful world, it'll be important to find people to trust.

Next, try to add some women to the group. You'll want to aim high: in the ZA, all of us can shoot a few points north. Women are all about status, and our status as "people who are not yet zombies" is incredibly appealing to them. The women will be good for the overall morale of the group, and, ultimately, to procreate. Who knows, you may even get lucky and find one that can shoot a zombie! [7] Balance is paramount here: too many women might drag you down, not enough women will create a distraction between jealous men.

Don't trust people outside of the group you've created. In the ZA, humans will need to stick together but resources will be scarce: there may or may not be enough power, food, and weapons. Our Darwinian instincts will take over and we'll be forced to battle other humans for the right to precious things (like twinkies).

Try to find a protected home base, preferably one that can take on some expansion (something like a church or some townhomes that are connected to more townhomes). Never sleep on the lower floors or in basements. Set booby traps in case a zombie gets past one set of doors. Have an escape route (something like a slide from a top floor to a vehicle on the street). Have backup plans. Never assume any given body is dead until you put a pitchfork through its skull. In the Zombie Apocalypse, there is no room for error.

Godspeed.

[1] "Die" is in quotes because they are, technically, already "dead." I thought it'd be a little misleading to say "die again," and things like "super-die" or "die-for-good-this-time" just seemed verbose.

[2] This goes without saying but you probably want to just avoid having appetizers with zombies altogether.

[3] Zombie Apocalypse.

[4] Federal Understanding Boycotts Auxiliary Reparations. You don't know what FUBAR means? #cmonson

[5] You did know this was the CDC's first plan of action, right?

[6] Farming. I'm from Indiana.

[7] Or make a sandwich.

I think the poker community sucks.. the majority of it, anyway. Everyone who plays live poker is an angle shooter... okay, not everyone, but you get the idea. Be careful who you deal with-- make sure everyone is vouched for or one person removed from your circle of poker friends. This was a completely unnecessary tangent, it has nothing to do with the rest of my blog post [1].

The people that are cool though, are really cool. They can also probably write better than me, because that was a brutal first sentence [2]. People who are actually good at poker are remarkably intelligent, objective, and good at (other) things. Successful poker players are often people who would have been successful in whatever they choose to do, they just happened to get lucky [3] to find poker. I was always smart in my own little world, my upbringing/schooling (lazy but talented) typifies [4] most successful poker players. I've spent about the last month grinding Trivial Pursuit and Jeopardy! [5] What I've learned is that my mind has deteriorated more than I'd like to think it has-- I've forgotten state capitals, presidents, and a slew of US History/World Geography that I could have sworn I knew at one time. Oh well, it's still cool that other poker players are nearly as dorky as me.

Something else that's sweet about the poker community is that there's someone in every corner of the globe. If you want to travel somewhere, chances are there's someone on Leggo or 2+2 that lives there or has been there and can provide you with real life experience about the place. That is incredibly valuable and something that everyone should take advantage of. Next time someone says: "Stop by next time you're in Northern Europe!" ...you should just do it. [6]

Poker players, relatively speaking, have good taste. If you want to know what TV to watch [7] or obscure movie finds [8], chances are someone has a good recommendation. Definitely better recommendations than your high school friends, who almost certainly have terrible taste. The ability to be objective about media, food, books, vacation destinations, etc. is more prevalent in the poker community than outside of it, imo. I appreciate this, and I'd like to thank anyone that I've met through poker that has expanded my mind with a good recommendation.

Don't be afraid to actually use the poker community as a resource, we're all we've got.

[1] It definitely has at least a little bit to do with the rest of my blog post. I am using the first paragraph as a foil for the rest of the post.

[2] I've written worse.

[3] ...or unlucky.

[4] I'm almost positive this is a word. I'm slightly less confident that it's the proper usage.

[5] I got really unlucky, Jeopardy! is always written with an exclamation point, but here it looks like I'm much more excited about this turn of events than I really am.

[6] I've met so many tremendous hosts in the poker community.

[7] I'm so far behind on TV-- I'll be in the States next week to catch up on BE, SOA, Newsroom, Homeland... whatever else has started.

[8] There's a sweet thread in EDF on 2+2 about obscure movies. In fact, there are a LOT of great threads in EDF. Good signal to noise ratio.

Not being able to play online poker in the States really sucks. It's just so fucking illogical I can't wrap my head around it (I can wrap my head around greed, I guess I choose not to). But, here I am, spending a month in the good ol' US of A and bored out of my mind.

I was able to do a few cool things: I signed up at a gym which is now close to where I live in Indy. It's 100,000 square feet, a couple basketball courts, a couple pools, a rock climbing wall, bunch of other stuff. I got some swimming lessons. I got some yoga lessons (I got pretty lucky and found someone cool to come to my house and teach me, I highly recommend it, I think most people that just go do yoga right off the bat without individual instruction probably do stuff very wrong, which is dangerous for your body). I played basketball a couple times a week. I further taught myself kettlebells. Now that summer is coming to an end, I'll probably start bulking. This always winds up being a fitness blog.

I interviewed Greg Merson for Leggocast #22. I finished some other video stuff (final part of my heads up series against klink, hh review video from a few years ago). We're running a Mojito Tuesday promotion to get $100 off a year subscription to Leggo-- might as well buy that now before stuff gets more serious in the future, promotion ends this upcoming Tuesday.

I grinded some TV. I'm caught up on Breaking Bad and Newsroom and just started watching Twin Peaks since I found it on Netflix. It's been that kind of month. I ate a lot of freeze pops. I read a few books (just started Eiger Dreams, which is just a collection of short climbing stories from Krakauer). I questioned my existence. I was generally unproductive.

Tomorrow I'm going up to Toronto to play some poker. I'm not sure how long I'll be up there. I'm gonna try to make 100k. Should be TOO hard if I'm up there for 6 or 8 weeks. Maybe I'll just win a tournament. I'm due.

Sooo, now that the Series is over I'm obviously sick (happened last year during ME run as well) and looking back on the summer that was. I played in $60,500 in buy ins over 17 tournaments, going 4 for 17 with no particularly deep runs (I got to the final 16 in the Mix Max where my equity was probably ~$125k but ran into a serious cooler and then lost AQ to A2 AIPF for my last 50 bigs) but also no min cashes. I picked the wrong tournaments to cash in this year (where I crushed it last year, cashing the 10k 6m and the Main) but still cashed for ~$44k. With pieces of other random people (a lot of pieces of guys in 1ks and shit that just straight bricked, wtf 1ks are easy) I lost some and won some, but still have a little sweat out in the Octo-Nine (that is really the name jesus christ) and am lucky enough to trick Chewy into swapping with me (wins everything in case you didn't notice).

Our house had a particularly good summer, with about a half dozen final tables, another half dozen final table bubbles, and, sadly, zero bracelets (I believe we were best at third and fifth). I would consider it a pretty successful summer all things considered. I managed to make a lot of day twos and even though many of them ended in disappointment and regret, there is value in getting to further stages in tournaments, I will just have to do a better job of realizing my equity in the future of course.

With a little insomnia I figured I'd put this out there, and hopefully will have a better chance to actually think about what I'm going to do next and talk about more stuff next blog. In the meantime, Chewy was on a podcast called Occupy Poker recently, and while I usually don't listen to podcasts I happen to listen to the first 2/3 or so of this one. It's really more about conspiracy theories than poker, but it's a good listen.

There's been a lot of complaining about the Rio and the WSOP this year, so I thought I'd outline as much of it as I could in this blog. I'll start with things I have experience with and move on to second hand stories and reports from poker outlets.

There have been many problems with the HU tournaments, starting with the un-randomness of the 3k HA (Event #2). I drew Ivey, and we talked about how we both registered early for the event (>24 hours beforehand). Since we both had seat cards assigned to our exact seats (not numbers that were drawn "randomly" at the last second by WSOP, like they did in the 25k HU last year and the 10k HU this year), we were predetermined to be playing this match before most of the field registered. There were about 320 registered all told, meaning that ~64 got a bye. They could not have known they would get over 256 for the event (I'd say that was a pretty good line actually), which means it is completely impossible for them to open up more than 64 tables (4 ppl at each table, 1 seat plays 4 seat and 7 seat plays 10 seat) before they have 257 registered. Additionally, I had several friends who registered in the last 5-10 minutes of registration and they all got a bye. I don't know what was/wasn't random about the draw, I just known it wasn't all entirely random. Phil and I talked about it for a minute, but we both basically decided we know the WSOP is incompetent and we don't care enough to do anything, I guess I care just enough to write this blog and let everyone know the organization is a joke.

Perhaps a bigger problem than their inability to create random matchups in these HU events is the payouts. In the 3k and 10k HU, over 20% of the field was paid (by contrast, in the 5k MixMax, less than half of that number made the money (11%, which is more reasonable). In the 3k HA, 33rd to 64th received a whopping $3,395, for a profit of $395 (minus any tips [lol], massages, $6 orange juices, $15 salads, $4.50 gatorades, etc.) for 6-10 hours of play. Perhaps better yet, if you win ANOTHER round, you get $5,144-- still not double the buy in! In the 10k HU Turbo (I added Turbo, since it is) Championship, a mincash is $10,966; against, $966 profit minus all the other Rio tax. The method to the madness is that more cashes, more likely people put money in the pit or play more tournaments. I get it. These HU tournaments are just not the same though-- they are populated by 90%+ professional poker players, all who would promote having to win 3 matches (or 4, with a bye) instead of 2 or 3. In the 10k HU, taking off 11k multipled by 16 would add 176k to the rest of the prizepool-- increasing it by over 10%. They could get a real number on top, close to $500k, instead of under $400k. The solution is obviously to change the payouts to reflect that or cap it at a reasonable number. They'll never want to turn anyone away (and I don't blame them), so changing the HU payout structure to reflect something close to 10% that every other tournament pays out is the clear solution (or make it winner take all).

For some of you that don't know, All American Dave is a (relatively healthy, afaik) food delivery service that caters to poker players (others, I'm sure, but it's caught fire in the poker community during the WSOP). At some point Caesar's shut him down-- now, I don't know the status of it, but they made it so that he couldn't walk into the Rio and hand a paper bag full of food to his customers at their tables. I don't personally use AAD, but I've heard good things. The Rio, assumedly, has shut him down because they want to filter people to their own food options (most of it crap; overpriced crap). I don't know what else to say about this, but they allow eating at the tables, so I don't see why this guy can't deliver his food. They should respect the hustle, he's just trying to make a buck-- the Caesar's with the rake, AAD with the nutrients (okay, really bad Wire analogy there).

Another huge debacle this summer was the Aguiar thing. Apparently at the $1500 PLH Final Table (featuring Aguiar, Negreanu, some other legends) they instituted a rule where players have to declare their actions verbally (conveniently, I think the rule started after Negreanu busted-- not that Daniel would have a problem declaring his actions, he would probably give a speech every time he raised or called if they asked him too [that would be a lot of speeches!]). Truthfully, I think there is too much uncertainty about actions from time to time. I have no problem declaring my actions. However, you simply can't ask people to declare their actions (for the purpose of their shitty WSOP live feed) after they played an entire fucking tournament under a different set of rules where they could just place bets out and that would be binding. Also, there will be a likely language barrier that could open up angle shooting and whatnot. In response to this, Aguiar spoke very negatively about the new rule and how he didn't want to have to verbally declare actions (the WSOP said if the players didn't cooperate they would not allow them to play the final table, lol). As Negreanu said on Twitter, this rule is fucking stupid and it's likely to be dead inside a week, but afaik it remains an issue.

To add insult to injury (this reminds me of game 1 of Cs vs Heat when Ray Allen was blown for a turrible foul call and then subsequently blown for a turrible technical foul after he reacted by scrunching up his face and jumping in the air a bit), after Aguiar had spent some time complaining about the last minute rule change via various social media outlets, the WSOP retweeted (and it stayed up for 24 hours) a tweet that said, basically: Jonathan Aguiar is a whiny bitch, I wish he would just STFU and play poker. I'm paraphrasing, but that is about what it said. Seriously. The WSOP's "official" twitter! 70,000 followers! They retweeted something calling someone a whiny bitch and left it up there for all to see for a really, really long time. As usual, the incompetence in organizations (even big ones) never fails to amaze me.

Finally, I was relatively deep in the money of the 5k MixMax and I followed some of the event on pokernews after I busted. I can't remember who Joseph Cheong got HU against (nor can I remember who won), but after finishing a long day of poker Cheong and his opponent decided they wanted to put the HU for the bracelet off until the day after tomorrow, because Cheong had run up a stack in a $1500 during breaks between HU matches. However, the WSOP wouldn't let him play it right then (it was too late at night) or two days from then (some rule with the Nevada gaming commission or something?)-- they forced them to play in some magic window that basically had to be the next day. So, they started the HU match at 9 AM the next day, likely after inadequate sleep (yes I know, you guys don't give a fuck about sleep, but some of us like to get 8 solid).

Assclowns.

Edit: Clayton reminded me how bad the dealers have been. They have been TERRIBLE. I've had a dozen dealers who need the players to count out stacks, bring in bets, etc. I can't even imagine how bad they'd be at PLO, split pot, or mixed games-- must be exponentially worse. Also worth noting these are not major problems at tournaments across Europe or the Bellagio.

I am amused by the title of this blog rhyming with the blog two entries below.

When I got to Toronto around the first week of May I started playing two things: Zoom and SCOOP. I did not play any online cash games besides Zoom, a home game with Leggo members, and less than a hundred hands of Zoom PLO. I did not really anticipate doing this, but I two things probably contributed to me playing Zoom vs me playing anything else: 1. I did not have to deal with the politics of starting tables, people sitting out against me, and bumhunters and 2. I started winning.. immediately, and quite a bit. I was making $1/hand at Zoom, how is that even possible? Inevitably, some combination of me putting out a video and the regulars adjusting to me incurred a downswing where I didn't play very well. It was short. The downswing actually started in the middle of a day. I was +8k at Zoom through a few thousand hands and then I lost back 7k of it, all in the same day. I think this was primarily because I started focusing on volume: "Hey, I'm making $X a hand, I'm printing money, why not print more?" My quality of play deteriorated.

I kicked it back into gear, primarily by making a few videos actually [1]. I think I play better on video. Accountability is good. I flip the Camtasia switch and all of a sudden I realize: "Fuck, I'm going to have to explain to everyone why I'm doing this. Why I'm doing this. I can't explain this."

So I spent most of the last two and a half or three weeks oscillating between my A and C- game, never quite reaching the depths of my D game and probably never reaching the full enlightenment of my A+ game. Overall, I played well. I was also very lucky. This combination of things led me to be the biggest winner at Zoom in the month of May [2].

I've spoken and written about this time and time again, but it's difficult to evolve your poker game through the ages. I've been around for over 7 years now, a lifetime in poker years, and I've been left behind whenever I decided not to roll with the punches. In some ways, you lose when you cannot accept defeat [3]. I am in some ways proud of myself that I still consider myself a top NLHE cash game player for 2-4 to 10-20, but equally disappointed by the fact that I am not so much more. I'm still pretty average at PLO, haven't bothered learning mixed games, and am for some reason afraid to keep playing higher stakes. I never thought it was in me to be a bankroll nit, but lately I just enjoy winning much less than I hate losing-- it's a terrible mindset to be in when you're trying not to lose. Really unacceptable. My lack of motivation pisses me off [4].

I have no idea how I started ranting about things, but I like Zoom. That is all I was going to write in this blog initially. I hope they bring Zoom to HSNL. If/When I come back to Toronto [5], I hope to be playing 5-10 or 10-20 Zoom. Make it happen!







[1] To be released over the next 6 weeks or so, they're very good, imo... even by my incredible standards. I think the two coming out in June are probably the best.

[2] Probably not... maybe though.

[3] This makes absolutely no sense. When I first typed it, it was crystal clear. I read it a few more times and I still cannot recreate the magical clarity with which I had briefly solved all of mankind's problems. I now have no idea what it means.

[4] This is what every one of my shitty blogs winds up talking about.

[5] Tune in to the Leggocast, out in the next few days, about our time in Toronto-- one of the hot spots for poker players after Black Friday.