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No Freeroll For You: Playing the WSOP Main Event

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DhQFjGZVAAAytYG.jpg Post from last year: https://steemit.com/poker/@daut44/i-skipped-the-wsop-main-event-the-last-three-years-freero...

The Contrarian Case That Andy Murray > Pete Sampras

There are multiple ways to judge a player's position in the greatest of all time debate: career accomplishments peak skill level edge against competition some c...

NBA DFS 10/20 Lineups/Results

Draftkings https://s19.postimg.org/4a2xez2kz/ScreenShot2017-10-20at9.47.40PM.png 45 minutes before lock, Eric Bledsoe was downgraded to "Questionable" due to an...

Mathematics x Programming Competition #8 - General Solution

Last week, @kenchung posted a fun new math/programming problem. He changed the payouts to the three fastest entries receiving prizes, and at least two people su...

Ethereum Mining Reward Goes Down, Rewards Go Up: Mining is Still Profitable!

A few days ago, Ethereum hard forked. https://s19.postimg.org/pwzuvxt9v/ScreenShot2017-10-20at11.06.35AM.png One of the main results of the hard fork was to dec...

NBA DFS 10/18 Lineups/Results

Draftkings https://s19.postimg.org/qpjirxmgj/ScreenShot2017-10-18at10.14.18PM.png Originally had Horford/Chriss/Rubio > Giannis/Skal/Ennis, but once Zach Randol...

NBA DFS 10/17 Lineups/Results

Projections https://s19.postimg.org/skrk73rhv/ScreenShot2017-10-18at8.06.54AM.png Draftkings https://s19.postimg.org/x6noffi5v/ScreenShot2017-10-17at11.00.05PM....

DFS Lineup Report NFL Week 6

Posted a long writeup earlier but Steemit lost the blog, so just going to do a quick rundown this time around. Draftkings https://s19.postimg.org/g94qnopmb/Scre...

The Support The Competition Pizza Challenge: Lower the Rake

Draftkings is running a pizza challenge: video yourself eating a 14" large pizza in 10 minutes or less with the right format and you can win $100 in entry fees ...

Technical Analysis

I had a lull in August -- it was a month before NFL season, I wasn't playing MLB DFS anymore, and I had no projects I was working on, so I decided to learn how ...

Tier 4 Verified on Poloniex, Some Faith in Exchange Renewed

There has been a lot of hate for poloniex over the past 3-4 months: rumors of insolvency, complaints of unhelped support tickets, complaints about issues with S...

Draftkings Sneakily Raises Cash Game Rake

On Saturday, myself and a few other high volume players (aejones, hoop2410, benstunner, Eric Crain, Brit Devine) engaged with Draftkings co-founder Matt Kalish ...

DFS Lineups/Report NFL Week 5

Last season I posted my weekly results for the first 7 weeks of the NFL season. Due to doing so well, I decided to stop -- my blog turned into a never ending br...

Building/Running a Mining Rig is Not for the Faint of Heart

I nearly went Office Space on my mining rig. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8 For a brief period of time I had three GPUs mining at 37.1 MH/s, so I t...

Bitfinex Offering Chain Split Token Futures: BTC1 and BTC2

Announcement: https://s19.postimg.org/gfu8sfg43/ScreenShot2017-10-06at8.18.39AM.png Users can take their existing BTC and split them into BTC1 (the current vers...

Ethereum Mining Rig Profitability Estimates, Day 1. SPOILER ALERT: Not Getting Any Richer

Two Days ago, I introduced the world to Vlad Zamrig, my ethereum mining rig. Well, at least it is mining ethereum for now, it may switch to Zcash or Monero in t...

Built an Ethereum Mining Rig, But No Hashing Power Sent To ETH Pool, Reward For Help

Will do a longer writeup soon including the major trouble shooting spots I ran into, but running into issues with my newly built mining rig that I can't solve. ...

Analysis on Phil Hellmuth's ROI In Poker Tournaments

After busting the $100k championship event of the Poker Master's last night, Phil took to twitter and had some interesting things to say. Cliffs: he still think...

Is what WolfOfPoloniex Doing Illegal?

Updates/Edits 1. I deleted an attack on his character which was irrelevant to the discussion. I apologize for it, it was unnecessary and petty. 2. I added a scr...

GGG vs Canelo: A Rant About Judging In Combat Sports

Last night's fight between Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin was an exciting, back and forth fight between two of the top pound for pound fighters in the spor...