Watching state finals of “stein holding” and it’s just dudes holding a big ass stein of beer out with a straight arm. (its on espnews right before Michigan women’s basketball)
Apparently it’s impossible to do for 10 minutes
Guy who won was just some jimmy buffet looking guy. Guy who won kept his eyes shut the entire time
I’ve tried it at a local Oktoberfest thing, I was terrible. Out of my friends that were there the best was a short overweight dude.
This might be of interest to some of our Bay-area peeps…
Local “community” radio station KEXP has purchased an FM station in the Bay Area, on 92.7 FM.
KEXP is a pretty kick ass station for music. They’ve also got a really good YouTube channel and do podcasts, mobile apps, web streaming, etc.
My favorite shows (all times Pacific):
Positive Vibrations, Saturdays, 9:00am-12:00pm. Jamaican music.
Expansions, Sundays, 9:00pm-12:00am. Electronic music. Rotating DJs so there’s a lot of variety.
Mechanical Breakdown, Saturdays, 1:00am-2:00am. “Wave and synth genres”
Midnight in a Perfect World, Mondays, 12:00am-1:00am. “Guest DJ mix show” with a lot of variance, sometimes brilliant sets.
Some of those times are likely to be inconvenient, but all the shows are available for two weeks in the streaming archive, both on the web and in the mobile apps.
I forgot how much I hate being surrounded by poker players every day. This is maybe the most out of touch thing I’ve ever read.
https://x.com/timreillypoker/status/1771971548385325216?s=46&t=mdG4vqCfpbP4Xp4esdQ98A
I’ll bet my house he voted for Trump in 2016.
Yeah, a quick perusal through his twitter history makes it clear he’s been a RWNJ for awhile.
https://x.com/rigdaelection/status/1771987200197972276?s=46&t=ECIc-ET7JxxiLXr8SgrQ7Q
I feel like this reply to his tweet could go in the economy thread too.
lol these idiot sports leagues like 
when this happens after all of them got into bed with sports betting operations becoming their biggest advertisers
The proliferation of sports betting, and gambling/online gambling in general across the country, is a fucking social plague.
Yeah… I find myself being more and more ambivalent about whether or not legalized gambling is a good thing for society as I get older.
I’d argue the fact that they are catching these minor things means the system is working. Some of these things may have been happening in illegal markets in the past without the tools to easily catch them with how much data they have from legal markets now.
I dunno, I would guess there’s more opportunities available for these kinds of shenanigans when the betting market is so much larger and more available. Did Porter, or bettors, have the opportunity to get rich betting Jontay Porter Under 3 Threes when this was all happening on shady offshore sites?
Wonder if the signal is something lame like sending a text message tell him to get injured or something awesome like there some dude who walks past him wearing a certain color hat
If you’re gonna make it legal everywhere the regulators have to do something about them kicking out anyone with a clue.
Seems like the prop bets should be based on a full game or the bets off.
Kinda makes me wonder long term what all this gambling going to look like. Like historically laws have made access to gambling scarce so made it very profitable to be the mafia, Vegas, reservation land, etc. And in online I’m sure the sites with prior name recognition jump out ahead initially but in another 10 years what are things going to be like if there 50 equally functional options in every state.
Obviously Vegas trying to focus on non-gambling expansion of activities but wonder what going to happen online. Guess will be like the light beer market where the entire product sold is just who advertised the most/best
I think gambling prohibition would cause more problems than it would solve. Totally on board with banning advertisements for gambling.
It’s unlikely there will ever be 50 options in a state. Competition is pretty fierce in the market and customer acquisition is expensive. It’s why you’ve seen a lot of companies launch in legal states and close up shop shortly after. It’s also why you see some sportsbooks aggressively banning any bettor who shows any semblance of possibly being a winner.
We got along just fine for a couple hundred years with gambling in this country banned almost everywhere.
