Good riddance to lockdowns! You can still play games on-line but Mind Sports Olympiad 26 will be held in the real world from August 21 to August 29 finishing on the Bank Holiday Monday. All the tournaments will be held at JW3, MSO’s new permanent home since 2014. All the tournaments except one; the Chess […]
The Mind Sports Olympiad is being held this month. The annual event was started in 1997, and like last year is again being held on-line. Registration is now open. The schedule can be found on the official website; there will be a total of 22 days of play between August 13 and September 5. The […]
Now, let us take this analogy one step further. The poker tournament is the economy, and the players contribute to it simply by playing, regardless of whether they win or lose. The people playing with real cash are business owners and the like, but ordinary workers don’t have that sort of money, so in order […]
What is wrong with capitalism? The short answer is nothing, or at most, very little. Virtually all the problems laid at the door of capitalism are actually due to finance. These problems include debt, depressions, and something called unemployment. To help you understand the nature of these problems and their solution, here is a perfect […]
The photograph above is a screengrab from a poker tournament, it shows the very final hand played in the 2010 World Poker Tour tournament at The Bicycle Hotel Casino, Bell Gardens, California, although it was livestreamed by YouTube on July 13. Go figure. Prahlad Friedman won the hand playing AQ. Not shown here is his opponent’s hand, which was KJ.
On this solo show I discuss the Vegas Shooting and Stephen Paddock. I start off by talking about the Vegas Police and their track record as being unprofessional and trigger happy. The allegations that the police didn’t help evacuate the concert, and that the cover up my stem from their failures are explored. I then begin laying out the facts as we know them about the shooting, Paddock and Marilou Danley. I look into the ever changing narrative, including the latest development regarding hotel security guard Jesus Campos. Then I explore Stephen Paddock and try to make sense of who he was.
Ed Opperman joins me today for a special PPR podcast on the Las Vegas Shooting. Ed tells us about the night in question, giving us a first hand view of what was happening in Vegas. Ed talks about the unprofessional nature of the Vegas police department. We discuss how this led to massive confusion and many of the early reports of multiple shooters and multiple incidents all over the strip. Ed also touch on Vegas police corruption, their tendency to overreact.
