Craig Marquis

@ikepoker @caveman984 Hard not to see it this way when you're winning them all!

Curious what other poker variants you would play a $100k tournament for? @ikepoker

@gas_biz Gotta respect the folks in the arena!

Go broke doing a start-up, rehab, investing in STR or value add. Respect! Go broke being a hater. You got what you deserve.

@KillabugPKR Got em

@moseskagan @redwood_ryan_a You joke but I know a dude whose wife does the same thing for high end race horses and he simply manages their houses. She makes more in a month than he did in an entire year in corporate life. Crazy business.

@redwood_ryan_a Time to settle into a life of leisure as a trophy husband

I’m so proud of my fiancé. She’s 8 weeks into her solo horse veterinarian practice, and this *week* alone she brought in 2.5x her monthly salary at her last job. Her name is going around and all of the top rodeo racers in our area are already using her. So proud.

@moseskagan @hennessytgz Nothing better than a captive audience!

@hennessytgz Separately, the words “networking” and “cruise” give me the ick; together, they’re an abomination.

@WeddingVenueGuy @aaronmoj For outside they have water soluble confetti made out of rice paper.

😂 I hear ya. Once we turned the fans on again come spring, here comes more confetti falling down lol. It was still worth it but wouldn’t do it again. Cleaners did a good job and didn’t complain about it. Honestly it’s outside that is more annoying. We tell them they can’t and they do it anyway. Even if we charge them it doesn’t make it any better as we still have to pick it all up. Looks terrible for the wedding the next day

Last year on New Year’s Eve we did a $6500 rental fee & $10,997.35 on the bar. Total of 17,497.35 which was by far & still is our best night ever. We knew the bar was going to do a ton and they asked if they could do confetti inside so we allowed it. This was the aftermath 😅

@girdley What incentives do you use with this goal in mind?

Customer obsession is a disease that the CEO has to give everyone else.

@Co1one1_Forbin @bp22 You're specifically talking about marriage though, right @Co1one1_Forbin ? Don't think @bp22 is referring to that avenue.

@bp22 not true at all. maybe in some scenario but it cost us maybe 3-400$. if you can't afford that you can't afford the travel

Our patchwork of a BS immigration policy leads to sad scenes such as this. These people should have a path, support, and an ability to assimilate into America instead we have this; Chaos at the border that has to be stopped.

@PrahladFriedman What is your stance on people overall? Do you think the poker community is net negative vs a random sampling of humanity?

The poker community does have some good people, but to try and say it’s largely good people is a joke. Lying about it is too obvious. You just look like a car salesman. “This car is amazing and in perfect condition!!!!”

@LeCatstronaut @moseskagan @RMB Most people don't really understand revenue != profit to be honest.

@moseskagan @RMB This is an amazingly hard concept for people to understand. You can buy revenue.

So if I understand the Airtable story correctly…a company founded 11 years ago and now doing $150M ARR is a failure?

@haralabob @Camp4 I mean it is a phenomenal airport though.

@Camp4 When I lived in Dallas, my favorite place was the airport.

When I lived in Dallas I lived for getaways—those brief escapes when I could live my best life. Now I get kinda grumpy when I have to leave Boulder, even if it’s to go to another amazing place. My best life is here. Two things: 1) Where we live is our most foundational decision because it impacts everything. Your home town is your aquarium and you’re the 🐠. Yet most people live where they live because… that’s where they live. They didn’t choose it. 2) The REAL objective is to *build a life you don’t need to escape*. It takes time and hard work but the first step is simple: Clearly define what your best life looks like. Start with this exercise👇

@JamieKerstetter This is God tier level self discipline.

I just visited an animal shelter and left without an extra dog I feel like I can do anything

@ColeSouth @chamath At least now you have a solid meme gi

can't believe @chamath ruined our Gold BJJ Valiant Gi 😤

@ColeSouth @CodyShedd Yeah pretty clear that can't be a public vote imo.

@CodyShedd @CraigMarq Reasonable take. I do think that if the mutual agreement vote is public, that puts some pretty intense peer pressure on the biological female athletes.

pretty big controversy in the Jiu Jitsu world right now... at a tournament i entered last weekend, there was a transgender woman competing. her opponent in the absolute (no weight limit) finals, who was outweighed by 65lbs+, showed incredible grappling skill and sportsmanship: instagram.com/p/CxBuKCvP1yE/ now the organization (NAGA) is scrambling to put together a transgender athlete policy in place: nagafighter.com/naga-transgend… other combat sport promotions are watching closely i'm sure. the only one that's spoken out as far as i've seen is @ADCC_Federation (basically the Olympics of grappling), which requires athletes to compete in the division of their sex at birth. are there any other sports leagues that have taken this "mutual agreement" approach NAGA is pursuing? it's nice that they are tackling the issue head on, but it feels to me like it's shrugging a lot of the responsibility off of the organization and onto the athletes. i'm curious if the mutual agreement survey is done publicly or privately with the biological female athletes.

@flapjack_jebus Nothing against you Preston but on a list of cringe phrases this is at the top for me.

Looking forward to popping my STL poker cherry :)

@coachgreen420 @SMB_Attorney @realEstateTrent @GuyDealership Probably the anonymous part.

If you’re curious about whether you have something of value to offer to the marketplace, why not start an anonymous X account and share what you know? Maybe no one will care. Or, maybe you’ll end up like me, @realEstateTrent, @GuyDealership or many others. Are you next?

@seandsweeney Seriously though, absolutely stunning property.

@CraigMarq I know. I’m sorry.

Remembering the great NIMBY battle over Kolo. Where I turned this into this…and completely destroyed the neighborhood and property values!

@girdley Shakespeare had it right in Hamlet - " the lady doth protest too much methinks"

Some people are “overly righteous” in business, religion, etc. They press their virtue super hard. If I run into them, I now raise my guard. They’re usually hiding something nasty.

@GregShahade @RandyBauer should resign. A)this is a disgusting way to conduct yourself when facing very legitimate criticism and B) not taking allegations like this seriously is just overall appalling. Let's hope Alejandro has not been able to victimize anyone else due to USChess's enabling

Very normal and professional behavior from USChess Executive Board president Randy Bauer 😂