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  1. Wife wanted to invest some money she came into a while back. Her friend was dating a guy at New York Life that convinced my wife it was a good idea. I made him give me a spreadsheet of what would happen if we put the initial money in and $x a month. Compared to an s&p fund averaging 7% and buying a life insurance policy that cost $15 a month at USAA it was a total dog.

    The only case I've heard that makes sense is if you are a very high net worth individual you can shove a bunch of money in there and then take loans out on it resulting in some tax advantages rather than paying capital gains when withdrawing some money from the stock market.

  2. In tonight's version of "Is blacklab the asshole here?"

    There's this old lady that plays in the big o tournament on Monday nights, I've probably talked about her before here. She's mean, angry and a raging bitch to everyone. Everyone hates her and high fives when she's knocked out.

    Last night she was on a roll. Got the clock called on her and went on a tirade on a hand that should have been an instafold. She lost track of her water bottle and accused the cleaning crew of stealing it.

    Get to the final table and she's got about 2 big blinds. After a lap two people have been knocked out and everyone is asking about an ICM chop. She has less than 1 big blind at this point and is two hands away from being the big blind. I say "no chop",  the guys next to me give me the come on, it's almost 2am. I tell them she has one big blind lets play 2 more hands and then I'll chop.

    She goes apeshit, "that asshole wants to wait to chop till I'm out. Bet he changes his tune if I triple up". Floor tells her to settle down. I just bit my tongue. Multiple times she's been the one holdout on chopping near the end of the tournament. She gets all in on her big blind and is knocked out. She hadn't even stood up and I ask everyone if they'd like to ICM chop. She was absolutely steaming. 

     

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  3. 5 hours ago, TreatyOak said:

    Our Chaps season kicks off tonight against a highly-ranked team I know nothing about, the Prosper Eagles. Go Chaps. Does anyone know anything about them? Looks like they come from a recent growth suburb north of Dallas and it's safe to assume they are a strong, well-funded program. Any background would be appreciated. Thnx. 

    Dave Cambell has Westlake at 4 and Prosper at 15

    Maxpreps has Prosper at 15 and Westlake at 25

    Guess we get to see which is more accurate.

    JV games aren't the greatest predictor but they are a data point. The Westlake sophomore team beat their sophomore team 14-0 last night. Should have been 24-0 but for a missed FG from the 1 yard line and a fumble into the end zone. I don't think Prosper had a first down that wasn't from a penalty or crossed midfield till about 2 minutes left in the game.

    Can't find any results for any of the freshman teams or the other JV team.

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  4. Asked the floor last night how he'd rule in that situation and he immediately said, action is over, he can't fold.

    Pointed to the floor guy from last week and told him you might want to tell him that.

    A little while later I heard them discussing it. 

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  5. BB kept his cards in his hand, dealer called floor, floor ruled oral action is binding and folded his hand and gave $44k from his stack to small blind.

    I told floor action was over, doesn't matter what he said. Floor disagreed.

    I asked if I got all in preflop with a buddy and cards are all face up can I fold after the flop once I see I'm going to beat him?
    He said no, I asked how is this different and he didn't have an answer. 

    We had 14 people left, 12 got paid and 99% of the time when it gets to 13 in this tournament we agree to pay 13 something.

    The other short stack at the table was livid about the ruling.

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