The Box of Chocolates Thread (You never know what you're going to get!)

they are former professional players who have a very successful business charging $30 monthly to their users which are likely in the thousands - possibly much higher

as a floor let's say they have 3k paying users, that's still 90k a month of income for a business that doesn't require much in the way of employees

it's possible they have as low as 1k active users but if I were to guess it'd be low 5 figures

i remember how eye opening it was during the polk/nandez dispute where they were sharing numbers of subscribers about the disputed payment and his course sold well into the 6 figures and that was just a single course and he still found he'd be way better off selling his own courses directly so there's quite a few people actively playing just to buy a plo course let alone pay for essential software that's considered a must have - there's probably at least 100 paying subs who haven't even used the software in the last year and just forgot to cancel the sub because it's billed annually

i'm also pretty sure they parked a lot of their income into crypto and rode the boom

would be very surprised if they did not have FU money and just bought this site for the lols/tax writeoff/etc

Idk but mark me down for thinking that 2+2 is doing relatively okay when you factor in the near infinite alternative sources available that may end up being monopolized and solidified into a smaller space giving a possible boost to this forum.

I mean, who the hell knows but I could see this forum being around for a very long time with it having very little to do with poker or what it was intended to do. And it would still be successful.

Not true.

I was just totally guessing but spending 7 figs on this place and then doing nothing with it not even updating the frontpage is even sillier than spending 6 figs. Even if it is just FU money.

You guys ever thought of doing live event threads for stuff like debates that can be closed after the debate is over?

Sucks to be these guys.

Esp that guy. Would not want to be that guy when the cards come up.

What's with the mixed use of the 4 color deck?

First screenshot was from table while hand was in play. Showdown is from replayer. No conspiracy here, run along.

I was just asking questions.

i thought it was two different hands and was also wondering why you would switch between 4 color deck or not

You thought that was 2 different hands? Do you think I have cracked the "flopping straight flush & coolering someone" code and can do it at will?

how else would you win just often enough to keep coming back?

Lol. Touché.

I once flopped a SF and got it all in on the flop. Before the river I had not yet clinched the hand. The most nervous I've been waiting to dodge a one-outer.

My biggest pot was a bazillion bb live at MGM Vegas maybe 20ish years ago

J♠T♠
Flop 9♠8♠7♠

up against two sets and the nut flush that donated everything on the flop.

Nice. As we all know from Hollywood, the best player at the table is the one on the right side of those sorts of coolers.

were you the poker consultant to this scene? i liked how you had him troll the dealer by tipping a tourney chip at the end

No, I'm more subtle than that. I came up with the other HH which had Bond umming and ahhing about calling with top boat before spotting a false weakness tell and stacking off to quads.

Since I know next to nothing about sportsball in general, and absolutely nothing about hand-egg in particular, I'll just translate that back into my language by assuming it's basically like the HH I was referring to.

yeah, i guess to put in your terms, it's like if someone were a mildly skilled amateur who began challenging some of the best in the world repeatedly at high stakes billiards and actually believed he was getting enough of a handicap to continue playing despite that each night he went home busto

And that would be like getting coolered with top boat? I think we might be stretching these analogies a bit too far now.

let's keep it to getting shot in the dick then

I am indeed finding that to be a rather versatile analogy latterly.