bennett looks a ton better. he has even put up a couple double doubles. so now he looks like a very bad player and not the worst player of all time. he def has talent, some surprising athleticism. problem is that he is a mental midget of epic proportions and mike brown is woat at developing talent.

Don't know where else to put this, so it is here.

MATH IS HARD!!!

I somehow got into a conversation about NCAA basketball tourney. And they said that the max was 15,000,000 and that the top 20 would each get $100,000 out of that population, and obv the billion for perfectness.

I said well if there are 15 million and 20 people win $100,000 it is slightly better than that to win, so if 100,000 in 1 million wins, that means our time is worth 10 cents...

anyway, im sure some of yall get rakeback on bodog. there has got to be way to get under the table rb. if someone hooks me up, i would make it very worth their while (like im talking a nice finders fee.)

i think my current account even gets it and it is going to one of the big affiliate companies. it may not be tho.

anyway, i would obv pay a decent amount to get a rakeback account and ya, im willing to take a few risks.

Damn, now that I think about it . My account got rakeback many years ago when I first signed up, forgot all about it. Don't remember the name of the affiliate site either. Think it was that Beanie guy from Pocketfives way back.

Hmmmm, it was called UltimatePals, they then were sold to bluff.com but I can't find any information after that. I was able to login to my old UltimatePals account but then it directed me to bluff, but there seems to be no rakeback information on bluff. Anyone used to have an account with them or know anything?

Thanks for the write-up Vic, was curious. And yeah, Mike Brown definitely sucks. He was an assistant with the Pacers a decade or so ago, and I thought he was dumb way back then. Kinda think he'd be coaching some div. 2 school right now if LeBron never came through.

I thought the Deng deal would be better in the short term than it has turned out to be. Just a weird team imo. Irving/Waiters/Deng/Thompson/AndyV seems like it should be alright in the East, even though Waiters seems like a JR Smith-level chucker. I remember you calling him Fatters in the NBA thread, lol. But I've only seen like 3-4 Cavs games this year, so what do I know?

Now it's my team's turn to ride the Bynum train. He looked good in his first game! Just gotta keep him away from the Indy bowling alleys.

I am also curious about Bovada rakeback! Had no idea that was even a thing. I only have like 400 dollars worth of "tournament points" after infinite grinding encompassing numerous months.

Are you talking about the Warren Buffett thing? I remember there being this debate about how you can either take a reduced lump sum, or spread it out in a Berkshire Hathaway annuity over like 50 years or whatever.

It's all academic for the rest of you, as I am awesome at brackets and am destined to ship the 1B.

lol: "If you were going to randomly pick teams, your odds of winning would be 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 1. Yes, that is a 9 with 18 digits after it, or more than 1 in 9 quintillion." http://www.savingadvice.com/articles...t-bracket.html

However, if you pick the 1 and 2 seeds to win their first game, you're down to 128 billion to 1!

I'm wondering if it's more likely to pick a perfect bracket than it is to be struck by lightning 3+ times. Well, I don't know, but this guy got hit SEVEN times!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Sullivan

"He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the age of 71 over an unrequited love". This is hilarious to me, for whatever reason.

Yeah, that was posted in the Wikipedia thread in OOT. Everyone found it hilarious that even though he was hit by lightning that many times, it wasn't what caused his death, but a women.

I heard she worked at a Chipotle.

Deng has no motivation to play for Mike Brown after playing for a great coach like Thibs. Although the Cavs have been playing pretty well lately, mainly because Spencer Hawes is a great fit for Kyrie. A stretch 5 who stays out of the paint and lets kyrie drive and dish to him for the open 3. Mike Brown is still the worst though.

Elo, what do you think about Evan Turner? I have never liked him. And he seems to have killed all Lance's swag. Lance used to be a beast when he was out there in the 2nd and 4th quarter playing with the 2nd unit. Now Evan Turner gets way too much usage and taking away from all of Lance's numbers/swag.

I've never been a fan of Turner, going back to THE OSU, but you have to assume he's better than Grangercorpse. They're trying to give him minutes running the point, which seems utterly unnecessary to me, as CJ Watson is one of the better backup 1s and Lance was perfectly decent handling the ball with the bench unit anyway, as you alluded to. So, I pretty much agree with you, but I still do think the trade is a slight net positive for the team (also, I kinda like Lavoy Allen by eyetest, or at least I was lucky enough to watch the games where he produced).

The real bench problem is Luis Scola. I defended the trade when it happened, not because I thought Scola was good, but because I didn't think the Pacers gave up meaningful assets for him (except for a pick that's gonna be 26-30). Well, that might be true, but man, that dude is just terrible. I want them to FREE CHRIS COPELAND. Dude can't be any worse on defense, won't lead the league in turnovers (stat may be approximate), and 38% from 3 is better than 41% on long 2s, so ...

2 times in the last 2 days I've tilt sat huhu 10/20 PLO (I'm down like 200 bets over this time period, **** you).

Last night, within TWO hands of the start of the "session" I got all in in a 4bet pot in position with KKxx vs QJxx on the AK2 board. I lost.

Today, within seven hands of the start of the "session", I got all in in a 3b pot oop with KKxx vs Q894 on the K78. I won!

lolplo

Well thank you for those throw-away assets of Miles Plumlee and Gerald Green!

No, they suck, they're just running hot, especially Green. Plumlee and Green are both tremendously athletic, but they mostly can't play and have totally donked their way into the absolute best situation for both guys.

Or, put another way, neither Green nor Plumlee would have received minutes on the Pacers this year, so whatever.

Edit: think Hornacek is a hell of a coach, though

2 for 3 in 2k PLO double or nothings ... though he only was in for 1780 or something

I keep getting my money in so good in PLO and so megahorrible in LHE

busted my bo again.

keeping a short roll in fear of getting it taken sucks.

By busted i mean busted my deposit limit after running my account to 0.

Yeah, I am withdrawing every month or two, something I never did on Stars/FTP. It's nice when the check comes, but stressful when I see the dollar amount in the account and having to redeposit once in awhile.

Sorry to hear BK, that ****ing sucks. I personally cannot deal with doing that which is why I stick to 8/16-10/20 so far. I hate depositing on that site. Do you just spam shots at 8/16+ until you have a "roll"?

I finally got in some ridic 8/16-10/20 games with like all fish tonight, and they broke. Like i was 3-handed for like 30 minutes with a pair of 60+ VPIP (at 6-max) fish and nobody sat and eventually the fish left. The sitting out on Bovada is getting a lot more like Stars or Commerce.

But tbh, having to play as low as 2/4-3/6 is getting so ****ing boring that I may just take some shots at 20/40+ soon and leave if the game isn't ridic. I am so bored when I play that I am just browsing the internet and spacing out.

I was wondering earlier what the average casual_fan would estimate his chances are for picking a perfect NCAA bracket. How favorably would he compare it to winning the Powerball?

I don't understand; Bo(dog)vada has been around forever and it seems rather impossible for Uncle Sam to get to it. I mean, what can they do? Calvin Ayre openly flouts US law; he's not going to suddenly about-face and give the US access to any of his ****. We good.

Probably like "only" 1 in a million, because hey, "I watch the game" and "I know the teams". Casual fans are the worst.

prob 30/60 and like 2/4 nl trying to run it up.

last night was the best night for 3060 ive ever seen. there was a 90/40 megafish dominating the tables. he won a couple grand. the 40/10 fish won about 60 bets. i was happy to get back to even and as the other tags got crushed.

I know I bought in with my last 417.35 and busted it. It was sad.