Great write up with lots of pragmatic ideas for how to improve things 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Cute theory, let's play it out. A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last. But... oh wait, there is no pile. It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded. The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it. Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0. The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession. But it gets worse. Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all. Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees. So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked. So the monkeys sit there. No bananas. No rockets. No coordinates to get more banananas. Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer. OH And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.

The new @solana color scheme/motif is orders of magnitude more aesthetically pleasing than the previous one. Bravo @WSOP @GGPoker

I’m not really one to complain, but the @WSOP final table viewing/streaming experience is a real disappointment, especially after such high expectations being set by the quality and magnitude of the production set. The excessive delay on the live stream combined with the lack of live updates, means that the only way to keep track of a friend/horse at a final table is to be there live…. Where there is no practical seating, no one announcing all-in confrontations, and only a small screen display to see hands in play -without knowing who has what. I went to sweat a friend at the 25k final table, and was so bored and unable to see stacks or what was happening during hands, that I left almost immediately. I know this is essentially year 1 of a new era, and the return to ESPN is no doubt a thrilled update, but I know I’m not the only one who really hopes the live viewing/streaming experience is thoroughly re-evaluated.

Thought I would share one of the best products/hacks I’ve discovered for live poker, especially during @WSOP when germs are rampant and people always get sick. I found this Japanese hand sanitizer a few years ago and I’ve been carrying it with me pretty much 24/7 since then. Comes in a variety of great aromas, easy to carry and doesn’t leave sticky/oily residue like a lot of sanitizers do. 10/10 product, IMO. a.co/d/08iWWGLY

This is incredible, and accurate.

Great Final Table here @WPT @HardRockHolly! @DarryllFish and I in the booth today, please tune in and comment, we will be interacting.

Epic final table in the works here @WPT @shrpo There are some very familiar faces in the mix, which could make for some especially fun commentary!

democrats-the pope is good republicans- the pope is bad chinese garfield- ooo john prease make rasagna again

Plain noodles. Legends never die. @AllenKessler @shrpo

Perfect summary 👌🏻

Tl;dr: Anal Gang-Rape

We are overstimulated and we don't even notice. Netflix while eating. Reels in the bathroom. Music while cooking. Podcasts on walks. We consume by default, not by intention. You keep filling every gap, then wonder why you feel foggy and unmotivated. Boredom and silence are the real growth drivers. They give you space to think and create. That's when solutions show up for problems that have been stuck for months. Leave some room.

It’s not “brave” to say the the obvious thing that everyone is gonna clap for 😂

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Hopping in the booth with @SavagePoker to do commentary for the RRPO @WPT main event @shrpo Coverage starts shortly: youtube.com/watch?v=UWOVq8fi… #WorldPokerTour #SHRPO #HardRockPoker

Easily the best poker content creator of all time.

Excellent take 👏🏻