RIP

One of the best personalities to ever play. Poker needs more like him imo.





**** cancer.

Poker Player Snapshot: Donger Kim – “I respect Doug Polks game the most”

pretty unlikely but if anybody is looking for floor seats to manny/paq (~85k face per ticket), I know someone who was comped 2 of them and looking to sell them. At that point I imagine it's HIGHLY unlikely but I told him I'd put out a feeler

wow this thread is dead

trying to get a transit visum for russia (visiting moscow on a layover), in london. seems like a major hassle. is there a commercial service that can do it for me? quick google search returned nothing

Can anyone recommend places to stay in the following
New York
Miami
Cancun
Playa del Carmen
Vegas
Santa Monica

Cheers

Just stayed at Rosewood Mayacoba which is like 20 min south of Cancun, sick place. It's a place to go with the wife or g/f though, not if you're looking to party.

Vegas depends what you're looking for. Encore is best for vacation, Bellagio is best for poker IMO.

Miami, I'm not as familiar with as I should be but I'd imagine u can't go wrong with Fontainbleu. I like the W in Fort Lauderdale a lot too.

Nowhere I've stayed at rly stands out in either New York or Santa Monica. I stayed at a few W's in NY and they were perfectly fine but nothing special. Santa Monica don't even remember the name of the place I stayed but wouldn't recommend it....

imho my personal favorite in Vegas is cosmo, in terms of niceness of hotel + amenities & proximity to decent poker rooms (Aria and Bellagio both super close). If you're going really high end I think the rooms at Wynn/Encore scale the nicest and are just generally super awesome but a bit far from everything else on the strip

I know this was discussed sometime last year(??), but whats the current best credit card in terms of cashback rewards? I spend a ton of money on food (both groceries and eating out), and decent amounts on both air travel and gas throughout the year. Is it still the Chase Sapphire Preferred?

To maximize cash back you're probably going to want some combination of 5% rotating cards (chase freedom, discover it, etc), citi double cash (2% cash back on unlimited purchases), and amex everyday preferred (3% on groceries and 2% on gas).

Sapphire preferred may be worth getting just for the $400 bonus but in terms of cash back you're going to get somewhere between 1-2.5% depending on what you're buying and how you spend the points (chase sapphire preferred points have 25% more value if spent on travel), but even so citi double cash is probably better with no annual fee and a flat 2% on everything.

RIP Chad Batista