Amaya's Ongame network exercises the Essence cashback allocation method, and there's a legit concern that Essence will make its way to the VIP program of Stars, or FTP, or both.

Migration of Ongame skins to Stars or FTP software (possibly without merging player pools) would be a more awesome change.

I am just speculating Apo... but tbh I would be really really really surprised if the 2015 or 2016 loyalty programs do not deteriorate in favour of the new owners eventually (in some way or form). And pretty much exactly what **** said.

The purchase price is 5b. Stars aparently made approx ~420m last year. Plus.. I am sure theres some pretty huge tax benefits in leveraging stars to the max. But even so... greater return s will be expected quickly in 36 months imo.

So basically... Im suggesting some ppl get some insurance in place. Guys that have been about the block a bit would have diversified....saved, invested, have rentals, etc. but some fresh pups may just not know how good a thing they have had. And maybe be living an unsustainable lifestyle without SNE and not planned for later in life.

I was basically jus sayin I worry for the guys aged 18-24 who have been SNE since of age to play.... and dont realise what its like grinding 9-5 in the real world.

Japan...



https://twitter.com/IyoYoshimi/statu...852160/photo/1

Oh btw, to continue the J-topic, I've just been introduced to the BABYMETAL idol group. Their guitarist - Takayoshi Ohmura, who also performs with Megadeth's ex-guitarist Marty Friedman - is a god

Jailbait alert: the girls' average age was 13.5 when the single was released (about two years ago)!



Edit for dub**** fans: BM's song 'Uki Uki Midnight' has it too (@1:35) :/

I cant believe grown males can seriously be sexually attracted to these 11yo-looking girls

It's not intended for sexual attraction. It's meant to attract J-pop listeners to kickass death metal

Fapfap..

Don't be disturbed by their overly youthful faces, those girls are all probably about 40 years old. I was roaming around on korea facebook once and its standard for 25 year old girl to look 12-14.

I want to go to Japan. I should do some kind of tour of some countries round those parts.

Touring my dick that is.

June 2013 LC thread






June 2012 LC thread







June 2011 LC thread

Poker is dead. Evidence above.

Year on year growth for me though. Yesss !!

Bad times.

slight exaggeration @40 lolololol

Well, I do see some causality here: poker is dead -> regs have to spend more time at the tables to grind the same profit out -> they have less time to waste on LC. But in heh's case, he's got an opportunity to play at Stars and so is getting much more profit than in the post-BF US days, what's happened is that he's emigrated to HSPLO forum and not blessing the SS fish with his presence any longer because the World Cup is stealing recreationals from poker tables.

June is only halfway through, though; it would be more logical to compare finished months. The April and May 2014 LC threads have made history as 1-page PLO LC threads (with 85 and exactly 100 posts, resp.); this one is to go beyond 100 posts for sure.

The bigger ever monthly PLO LC thread was the very first one, in February 2012, with 1762 posts (more experienced posters will tell if there were such official threads earlier, but at least they weren't called LC then); the only other 4-figure LC thread was in March 2012, with 1076 posts.

Official LC threads might as well be made quarterly now.

I highly doubt that they were born earlier than their official birth dates (the vocalist Sua on 20.12.97, Yui on 20.6.99, Moa on 4.7.99), otherwise they would have risen to popularity earlier - in the idol subgenre of J-pop, girls indeed start dancing on big stage in their teenage years.

Btw, they'll perform at the Sonisphere on July 5th (and also in Paris, Cologne and Montreal) on their small world tour.

/ post 4242 (answering twice to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, in case repeating it once is not enough)

what happened to DJ ROSE anyway

Message our Thai residents, they def know.

OT: I've just seen an excellent classification of various types of weirdos (in a chess.com thread, post #11):



But is it correct? It doesn't match well with the definitions in the Urban Dictionary.

'Dork'

That is one of the best insults.

No it doesn't match common usage of the terms, obsession has nothing to do with any of them, and arguably neither does intelligence. It is only social ineptitude that is common to all 4 of them, however I would say that a geek or a nerd is only socially inept if his surrounding do not contain other geeks and nerds, they tend to get on pretty well with each other.

Regardless, most people who fit into some kind of group are usually morons on some level. Yes that includes all religions, football team supporters, gay people, feminists ect. Apart from the libertarian maybe, just maybe. Yes i see the irony.

How about heterosexuals, who're also a group? OK, if you meant minority groups, everyone belongs to some kind of minority, e.g. most posters here are poker players. Should we hate ourselves now or want our minority groups to be discriminated?

Yes you should all hate yourselves.

People who settle in camps won't go anywhere further and then they need to defend their camp ect. It's not about minority or majority. And that especially includes people who are in slave camps, without even realizing.

yea black friday really killed ssplo. can't believe i posted that much in the threads back then haha. guess that's how i got this many posts tho

has a real job here now and is crushing it. has acclimated to life here really well

confirmed. also my gf is 24 and looks 15 most of the time

A decent real job for a farang that could replace grinding PLO100? You must be kidding! Or is it in some big global corporation?

I think one of the reasons why young Asians look like teenagers to us, Westerners, is that we're poor at grasping their facial features in general. Telling them (those who don't dye hair and don't have special coiffures) from each other requires a lot of training.

I remember pokertxs had some funny stories and good gambool.

No chat in the SS LC thread - everyone is solid enough to move up to the HS one.

didnt even make any of the lists

hslc thread sucks all they talk about is getting fit and risk of drowning in money pool

Don't forget pondering about people who post gifs on internet forums.