today was a good day

wow. there have been months of rumors about a European investment group that was in negotiations to buy full tilt poker and eventually re-open the online poker site. and out of nowhere, negotiations stopped, and POKERSTARS stepped in, and acquired Full Tilt poker's assets. for $750M. wow wow wow.

couple links:

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2012/04/groupe-bernard-tapie-ends-negotiations-with-doj-pokerstars-12516.htm

http://wickedchopspoker.com/groupe-bernard-tapie-out-of-full-tilt-poker-acquisition-pokerstars-new-buyer/

most important, ALL U.S. player balances will get refunded. unbelievable. people were selling their accounts for less than 50cents on the dollar. unbelievable. the next few weeks should be interesting.  here's the deal. i have 2 full tilt poker accounts. one under my name and one i made under a friend's name. i should get the money in my account no problem. but i have most of my money in another account, under a friend's name (who i have spoken to twice in the past 2 years via text). hopefully he doesn't secretly hate me. i'm also not quite sure how they are going to distribute the funds. bank wire or check? not sure what kind of identification they are going to require. wowww. ok i'm done

yo chick she so thirsty

i'm finna get this

no, not you

um, i love everything about this. the awkward humor. i could watch 45 minutes of no-not-you-ing. i would pay $4 right now to watch 45 minutes of this. i've watched this clip 14 times already. i need more. i want to do this, very badly

i remember this one time in high school, where i was the victim of a no-not-you. it was bad. and it was in class. so it's not exactly like you can just walk away and leave the embarrassment at the scene of the crime. oh man. 2nd period, freshman year, damn you stephanie. ok no more

a little

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, projected top 4 pick
not the smoothest interview. but seriously, this draftexpress guy is a dickwad, grilling poor MKG. if i was asked "how are you doing today?" to start an interview, i would freeze up too. my favorite was when he said "i don't know how to explain it...like...i don't know..it's weird a little bit..."

i like that, i might use that one when i don't know how to respond. "i don't know...it's weird a little bit"

IT'S WEIRD A LITTLE BIT.

title shot

my ESPN fantasy bball league is a keeper league. 2 keepers. the injury bug hit my opponent. not only did he lose lamarcus aldridge for the rest of the season, but it looks like kevin love could be shut down. the very high-risk move would be to drop both of them and go balls-out this year, but those are 2 legit insta-keepers. if you were to make a live-bet, i'm -300 to win now. how much would it suck though, if i had the championship almost-in the bag, but then lebron, rudy gay, and batum shoot a combined 1-60 from the field, shoot 2-39 from the line, and commit 41 turnovers in one night AND channing frye, gallo and illyasova (team kyle) nail a combined 34 3s---making me lose 4-5. i can't lose now. i think like a loser, a loss will only hurt more because now i'm supposed to win. it's like when you play in a pick up basketball game, with 1 girl on the opposing team. and the team asks who she wants to guard, and she looks at you and says "i'll take him" (that doesn't feel good by the way). just a bad scenario, you can't lose, you're supposed to have the miss-match. ugh.

never celebrate early, there's no upside. ask jean-robert

bet for proof

Bet is for $200. with russ "dental program" uchizono.

5 categories. closest wins the category. majority wins

GM
Pujols BA- .329
Sandoval BA- .310
Giants wins- 86
Angels wins- 91
NL wins championship

RU
Pujols BA- .316
Sandoval BA- .305
Giants wins- 92
Angels wins- 96
AL wins championship

pretty straight forward bet. but, if the giants and angels face each other in the world series, the loser will have to shave his head and eyebrows off. If the SF vs LAA world series goes to game seven, the winner gets to taser the loser.

natural

i'm a natural hater, but i dont mean to be, i promise. i read the first chapter of hunger games, and i watched the movie. the question i have:  when prim was crying about possibly being picked as a tribute, and katniss was trying to calm her down. why didn't katniss just tell prim "listen, you only have 1 entry, i have 30 (or whatever it was), the odds of you getting picked are highly unlikely. but listen, i'll promise you, that if you do happened to get picked, i'll just volunteer and take your place. so stop crying, you have a zero percent chance of being a tribute."  that is alllll she had to say, and the tears would go away. as soon as prim was picked, without hesitation, katniss volunteered. why not cut the bull shit and just tell prim before the ceremony thing that her ONE entry might as well say katniss everdeen on it? i'm a hater, and not proud of it.

1 bill

facebook bought instagram for a cool billion dollars. wow. one thousand million? i never really told anyone this, but instagram was my idea. it was probably 2009, and i thought 'wouldn't it be cool to have something similar to twitter, but just with pictures? people love pictures!' i was going to name it instapic. unfortunately, instead of following though on my idea, i had to catch up with some basketball box breaks (or "unboxing of basketball cards" according to mimi) on youtube. oh well, next time. wait, can you imagine if google bought facebook? quick, stop! my head almost exploded.

why do some playgrounds have tan bark?  sand >bark. i can't think of one good reason why bark is better than sand. maybe its cheaper? BS. when kids play, they fall down. i remember when i was a kid, if you fall off the monkey bars or fall when playing hide and go seek, your hands and knees would get sliver'ed up. it pretty much ruins your day, unless its pizza/movie day. ugh, bark and slivers suck

i played 2 fantasy basketball leagues this year. and fortunately, i am in the championship in both. i wish i was more confident, but i honestly feel like i'm +300 to win either league. in my espn league, i'm playing kyle, who everyone knows is one of most respected managers in the league (i'm 80% serious). and i made a mistake already. as soon as it was confirmed that we would be playing each other in the championship, i panic-texted him asking for a chop of the prize pool$. he said "lol". so, basically he knows i'm scared already. this will be my 3rd championship appearance. i'm swagless, i think like a loser, right now, i would be extremely satisfied with 1 championship and 1 2nd place finish. kobe would never think like this. ugh, i'm going to lose, if i lose both, i don't know how i'll recover next year. where will i find the motivation? so close. yeah, i'm screwed. just checked, and ESPN championship rounds are 2 weeks and yahoo is only 1 week. i wish they were both  1 week. there's too much skill with 2 weeks. oh well, next time. i lost already

yes

the cheek itch!! brilliant