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@PokerNews @phil_hellmuth @RealKidPoker @TomDwan @PokerGO 25k for these guys?

The National Heads-Up Poker Championship is back with a stacked 64-player bracket. Superstars like @phil_hellmuth, @RealKidPoker, and @TomDwan are returning to the @PokerGO Studio to battle for the $25,000 title. Check out the full bracket and first-round matchups here 👇 pokernews.com/news/2026/04/n…

@TheHoopCentral I think spurs in 6 but lose next round in 7 to OKC, gsg!

WOLVES VS. SPURS CALL IT RIGHT NOW — Which team wins and in how many games?

@atonymosca @For_Film_Fans “…the covenant between god and Abraham, or something….😂😂😂”

@For_Film_Fans Some incredible guest performances in Seinfeld over the years. This, and Charles Levin's Mohel, and Larry Thomas' Soup Nazi stand out.

Regarded by many as one of the best written, best acted scenes in Sitcom history. PHILIP BAKER HALL delivers an all-time performance as ‘Lt. Bookman’ —The Library Cop, a role that changed this hugely talented Actor’s life & career forever.

@For_Film_Fans GOAT

@C_J_Boyd @achester99 I know right?

@achester99 What a fun list! Tim Duncan at 19 points is perfect.

Most NBA games with exactly _ points: 0: Greg Kite 295 1: Reggie Evans 61 2: Harvey Catchings 193 3: Nic Batum 116 4: TR Dunn 160 5: Derek Fisher 117 6: Michael Cage 151 7: Fisher 102 8: PJ Brown 122 9: Fisher 111 10: Charles Oakley 125 11: Jason Kidd 106 12: John Stockton 114

@achester99 Somehow seems right Timmy would be the 19 point leader

13: Stockton 108 14: Robert Parish 108 15: Chris Paul 90 16: Parish 104 17: Stockton 92 18: Parish 115 19: Tim Duncan 88 20: Kevin Garnett 97 21: Dirk Nowitzki 82 22: LeBron James 88 23: Karl Malone 86 24: Malone 92 25: LeBron 116 26: LeBron 101 27: LeBron 101

@BSRIDDLE126 @Mr_Husky1 Ha

@Mr_Husky1 For those thinking this is a fabricated story. I was there. Ed bought the guitar and after the auction smashed it in the parking lot. It was a spectacle that was brilliant to see first hand.

Eddie Van Halen was attending a high-end vintage guitar auction at a Beverly Hills Gallery, looking for a specific 1959 Les Paul burst that had caught his eye in the catalog. When the lot came up and Eddie raised his paddle to bid, the auctioneer paused and spoke directly to him. Sir, I want to make sure you understand what you're bidding on. This is a 1959 Gibson Les Paul standard burst in exceptional condition valued at $50,000 to $75,000. This isn't a player's guitar. It's a collector's instrument. Are you sure you understand the significance of this piece? Eddie lowered his paddle and said calmly. I understand vintage guitars. I'd like to continue bidding. The auctioneer looked skeptical but continued. When Eddie bid $60,000, the auctioneer stopped again. Sir, do you have the means to complete this purchase? We require immediate payment for items of this value. Eddie nodded. I can pay. What happened in the next 10 minutes became the most talked about moment in vintage guitar auction history. It was a Saturday afternoon in November 2009, and Eddie Van Halen was doing something he rarely did, attending a public auction. Usually, if he wanted a specific vintage guitar, he'd have a dealer handle it privately. But this particular 1959 Les Paul had an interesting history. According to the catalog, it had belonged to a session player in the 1960s who'd used it on several famous recordings. Eddie wanted to examine it in person before bidding, and he was curious about the auction scene. The auction was being held at Heritage Fine Instruments, an upscale gallery in Beverly Hills that specialized in rare guitars, violins, and other collectible instruments. The crowd was maybe 70 people, wealthy collectors, dealers, a few musicians, and some investors who treated vintage guitars like stocks. Eddie had come alone, dressed in jeans, a sport coat, and a button-down shirt, nicer than his usual t-shirt, but still casual for Beverly Hills. He'd registered for a bidding paddle under E Van Halen, but the registration clerk hadn't made the connection. Eddie was just bidder number 47. He sat in the back row and watched the first several lots sell a 1950s Martin acoustic, some vintage Fender amps, a rare Gretch. The auctioneer was a man in his 50s named Richard Peton. Very professional, very knowledgeable about the instruments, speaking in that rapidfire auction style. The crowd was competitive. Several dealers were bidding against each other, driving prices up. Collectors were jumping in at the last moment. It was entertaining to watch. Lot 23 came up. The 1959 Les Paul burst that Eddie wanted. The auctioneer's assistant, wearing white gloves, carefully brought it out on a velvet line display stand. The crowd leaned forward collectively. Even in a room full of valuable instruments, a 59 burst commanded attention. Richard began his description with the reverence these guitars deserved. Ladies and gentlemen, lot 23. A 1959 Gibson Les Paul standard in what we call burst finish. That beautiful tobacco sunburst that's become the holy grail of vintage guitars. This particular example is in exceptional condition. The flame maple top shows extraordinary figure. You can see that even from your seats. Minimal fret wear indicating it was played by someone who knew what they had. Original PAF pickups, both measuring correctly on our resistance tests. Original Clusen tuners with the correct double ring design. Original ABR1 bridge. Original hardware throughout. Serial number authenticated. And the kicker original brown case with pink interior, also in excellent condition. He paused, letting the crowd absorb the details. This guitar is documented providence showing it was owned and played by session guitarist James Morrison in the early 1960s.

@CoinPoker_OFF I mean I could say why are you playing that hand at all in plo

PLO is crazy - would you be right to fold the nuts here?

@em_Lazzy I don’t know how anyone did after the escalator

Who can honestly claim, without hesitation, that they have never supported Donald Trump, even for a single moment?

@lowstakesdre Nice 1

I’m in the $180 ~ $16,000 at Derby. I open 5❤️5♣️ One caller. Flop: Q ❤️ T ❤️ 5 ♦️ Villain checks, I bet small, he calls. Turn: A ❤️ Villain checks, I bet, he jams, I call. Dealer makes the pot right, i show right away, villain doesn’t show just yet, he turns over J9 of hearts. I need the board to pair!

@TheCriticalDri1 Like I always say about these acts, if they WANT to get out there great but if they HAVE to that’s sad

No thanks, I choose to remember the B—52’s back in their heyday. Yikes

Imagine getting in a time machine and going back to 1776 and telling the Founding Fathers that the King would one day be reminding America about the importance of democracy and our checks and balances. That is the timeline we’re living in.

You have got to be kidding me. The State Department is putting Donald Trump’s scowling face on the U.S. passport. His signature in gold. Superimposed over the Declaration of Independence, a document literally written to get away from this exact behavior. No sitting president has ever done this. Coins, park passes, battleships, and now your passport. The man cannot find a surface he will not slap his name or face on. This is not patriotism. It is vanity.

@RealEmirHan I think it’s great he didn’t want to be an international super assassin anymore, just a cowboy

Tarantino hated this Kill Bill Vol. 2 scene initially because Michael Madsen insisted on using this hat. He bought it in Mexico while filming a Western and started wearing it to rehearsals to shape Budd’s washed-up cowboy vibe. Tarantino even told him to ditch it (and cut his hair). Madsen ignored him and kept showing up in it anyway. So Tarantino rewrote the strip club scene on the day—adding the boss’s “shit kicker hat” rant just to call it out. Madsen later said he “owed half [his] performance to that hat.”

@covie_93 Ha

How Volodymr Zelenskyy manages to survive in a literal war without a ballroom to keep him safe is just shocking to me.

Warren Buffett, in his first sit-down since stepping down as Berkshire CEO, gave the cleanest indictment of legalized gambling in a decade. He called it a tax cut for the wealthy. The math proves him exactly right. Americans wagered $165 billion at legal sportsbooks in 2025. They lost $16 billion of that. FanDuel pulled $6 billion of the losses. DraftKings pulled $5.3 billion. Every state with legal mobile sports betting collected a tax on the bettor side. New York alone took in over $1.2 billion in 2025 sports betting tax revenue. Layer the lottery on top. State lotteries generate over $90 billion a year. The bottom half of income earners account for roughly 70% of total spend. The average lottery player makes $38,000. A household earning $20,000 spends three times more on tickets than one earning $30,000. The implicit tax rate, meaning whatever the state keeps after prizes, runs 30 to 50% depending on the game. No other revenue source in America has that base and that rate. The structural design is the engine. A single straight sports bet carries a hold of 4 to 5%. A four-leg parlay carries a hold above 30%. FanDuel and DraftKings spent five years rebuilding their apps to make parlays the default product. FanDuel's blended hold rate hit 11.4% in 2025, up from roughly 7% in 2022. The product got worse for the customer and the customer wagered more anyway. Now look at the substitution. Nine US states have no state income tax. Seven of those nine run state lotteries. Seven of those nine have legalized sports betting. The states most committed to never taxing wealth are the same states running the largest extraction machines on people who cannot afford to lose. Read it as policy. Here is what Buffett is actually pointing at. The state needs revenue. It can raise income tax on the top decile, or it can run a lottery plus a sports betting tax. The second option raises the money from the people who can least afford it. The first option becomes politically optional. New York's $1.2 billion in 2025 sports betting tax is $1.2 billion the state did not have to ask of someone earning $5 million. DraftKings and FanDuel sell a privatized collection mechanism for a regressive tax that the state never has to defend at the ballot box again. Voters approve legalization once. Collection runs forever. The state takes a cut. The wealthy get a quieter top bracket. The bettor's cut shrinks every quarter as the parlay menu gets pushed harder. The function of a government, Buffett said, is not to play its people for suckers. Thirty-nine state governments now do.

@quotesdaily100 🤯12

The hidden physics of everyday things you never questioned: 1. The refrigerator doesn't create cold. It moves heat from inside to outside. Cold is not a thing,it is the absence of heat being relocated. 2. Glass is not a solid. It is an amorphous liquid frozen mid-flow. Old windowpanes are thicker at the bottom because the glass has been slowly moving downward for centuries. 3. Fire is not a thing. It is a process,the visible release of energy as a substance rapidly oxidises. Flame has no mass, no defined boundary, no independent existence. 4. The shadow you cast is travelling at the speed of light. Shadows are not objects,they are the absence of photons, and absence propagates as fast as presence does. 5. When you stand on the ground you are not touching it. The electrons in your feet and the electrons in the floor repel each other. Physical contact as you experience it is electromagnetic resistance, not actual touch. 6. Hot water freezes faster than cold water under certain conditions. This is called the Mpemba effect and physicists still do not fully agree on why it happens. 7. Sound cannot travel in space. But if it could, the sun would be louder than anything the human ear could survive at any distance. 8. A piece of paper cannot be folded in half more than seven times regardless of its size. The exponential thickness increase makes it physically impossible. 9. The atoms in your body are almost entirely empty space. If you removed all the empty space from every atom in every human on Earth, all of humanity would fit inside a sugar cube. 10. Honey never expires. Archaeologists have found 3,000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still chemically edible. 11. The static electricity built up by walking across a carpet is between 10,000 and 35,000 volts. The shock you feel is harmless only because the current is near zero. 12. Metals that are perfectly smooth will permanently bond on contact in a vacuum. There is no force holding them apart,welding requires no heat, only the absence of surface contamination. 13. The loudest sound ever recorded,the 1883 Krakatoa eruption was heard 4,800 kilometres away and circled the Earth four times as a pressure wave. 14. Light from the sun takes eight minutes to reach you. When you look at the sun you are looking eight minutes into the past. When you look at the nearest star beyond the sun, you are looking four years into the past. 15. Time moves measurably faster at the top of a tall building than at its base. Gravity literally slows time. Your head ages fractionally faster than your feet every single day.

@rocknrollofall More please, would’ve loved to hear him learn rudimental solo/exercises

Neil Peart sharing a lesson taught to him by his teacher Freddy Gruber. This is from his 1996 tape called 'A Work In Progress'

“IMMIGRANTS MAKE AMERICA GREAT”