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Hungry Horse founder and live cash crusher extraordinaire Marc Goone joins Carlos and Andrew for a lively discussion of solvers, win rates in live cash, exploiting regs, teaching poker, “lyrical myrical” rappers, and more.
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How the hell is Marc 47? I can’t figure out if that’s a joke. He definitely seems late 20s to mid 30s. Either way, great ep.
Thanks! And yeah, that was my reaction as well.
Andrew, I have been a listener to your show from about episode 5 and have always enjoyed and benefited from it.
You talk about being electoraly beaten by a fish in 2016, then by a much stronger player this year. But did your political allies play any better in 2024 than they did 8 years prior? What did they do differently?
Also you talk about freedom. Most of your own friends and associates would feel forced to attack you were you foolish enough to make a single social media post claiming that there were less than 30 genders of people, or even that men cannot get pregnant.
The average young(ish) progressive is still working to pay off crippling debts accrued from higher education while being just one email, post or workplace verbal comment away from professional/social ostracisation and financial ruin.
The US voter is basically offered 2 types of madness to choose between, or to not vote at all and then be considered irresponsible.
Hi Billy, thanks for being such a long-time listener, and for the comment. If you have comments/criticisms/responses to specific things I said on the episode, I will do my best to address those. I’m not inclined to address your assumptions about what else I believe or who my friends and associates are.
I think the incoming administration represents some specific threats that many Americans do not have experience dealing with, and my intention was to encourage people to start thinking about how they will deal with those threats. I did not say and do not mean to imply there are not other threats to freedom, bodily safety, etc from other sources, including from people with whom I am inclined to make tentative alliance. Just like in poker, we don’t cost-free choices in politics, and we have to be strategic in balancing risk and reward.
Personally, I am more concerned about state violence and mass deportations than I am about over-reactions to insensitive comments on the internet. I have in fact made many such comments over the years, and while I have sometimes received push back or criticism for them (much like the kind you are offering here), they have not resulted in professional or social ostracization.
I don’t mind criticism. Sometimes it prompts me to change my views/behavior, other times it is an opportunity to clarify or further explain my views. I try to think carefully before I speak on things and to only say things I am willing to stand behind. People don’t always like what I say, but that is just part of participating in a diverse community. For example, I understand you may not share all of my political views, but I appreciate that you are willing to listen anyway, and I am not offended or upset that you speak when you have a strong disagreement.
Thanks for such a detailed reply. My prediction is that Republican voters will be left as underwhelmed with government’s reluctance to deliver on campaign pledges/nods/winks as they were during DT’s first term.
What has changed is that the regime has, since the Oct 7th ‘invasion’, abandoned the Democrats and heavily signalled support for Republicans. It appears to have lost interest in Ukraine and is now focused almost entirely on the situation in the Middle East.
KH’s job was to lose the election and for this role she was just about the perfect candidate.
Thank you for your pre-interview comments about the election and the state of affairs after the election. I appreciate your honesty and assessment and found it refreshing.
I will follow you on Bluesky as I have completely removed myself from Twitter.
Thanks, Scott, I really appreciate that (on both counts). Twitter unfortunately remains indispensable for getting in touch with potential podcast guests, but I don’t use it for much beyond that anymore.
Andrew, I appreciated your comments in the podcast. As part of the 48% that proudly voted for Kamala, I will say that the President Elect promised a lot of things to Bible Belt Christians, the Joe Rogan audience and Americans who are struggling with finances. Let’s see if he keeps those promises.
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I'm following you and Carlos on bluesky now.
Thanks very much, Ken, appreciate that.
What of the violence committed by our state against human beings in other nations? Do foreigners count, too?
As a listener born in Africa, whose partner grew up in the Middle East, I was disappointed by the show’s tacit suggestion that only one election outcome should alarm us. Either major party candidate winning would have been cause for alarm.
The mass violence that the Democratic candidate spent the past year justifying and subsidizing (both in Gaza, and elsewhere) has not been hypothetical. It is real, and continues unabated in the waning days of the Biden/Harris administration—which just sent along another billion for genocide.
Harris vowed to continue the same policies if elected.
Trump is *also* likely to continue some or all of that mass violence; and if so that will demand condemnation, too. But at this point that is an assumption, not an established fact, as for the current administration.
When people lend support to and bemoan the election loss of a genocidaire, this suggests that it is OK for politicians to wage and promote mass violence—as long as it is not against Americans.
A vote for Harris sent the message that there is nothing that will not be tolerated by Americans, as long as it is not done within our own borders.
Many of us voted for neither because there must be a red line on eliminating an entire people. Some choices cannot be justified as a “pragmatic” selection among evils. There must be protest.
As for Bluesky: it appears to be an effort to silo “centrist” Democrats in a place where they don’t have to be exposed to other points of view. That is no healthier than making X a place only for Trumpers.
Thanks for the comment, Sam, and for listening. If I shared your belief that voting for Trump would meaningfully improve the chances of ending the genocide in Gaza, I would have done so. Unfortunately, I think he will be worse, hard as that is to imagine. My lamenting his victory is in no way condoning that slaughter or the current administration’s support of it, nor is it a suggestion that no harm would come from a continuation of the current administration.
As for Bluesky, what you describe has not been my experience.
Thank you again,
Andrew
‘Woke’ and ‘Based’ have quickly been exposed as being just two sides of the same shekel. The purpose of the two parties is merely to present an illusion of choice. This is why, despite all the howling and broken promises to leave the America, nothing much changed in ordinary US citizens’ lives when Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump or Biden took office. The military industrial complex rolled on, enabling the lending of even more fake money.
Meanwhile Trudeau in Canada is making false promises about sending back 5 million immigrants, presumably he knows not why the order came from on high to do this but understands he must do as he is told. Perhaps it’s just to stir up more unhappiness and outbreaks of violence?
Don’t vote. Democracy doesn’t work. If it did, they would have banned it a long time ago.