JP Reilly 🇵🇸

@financedystop Third-level education is elitist in the USA and, like everything else, just a big business for the people at the top. Just move to Europe and get free education, it's not difficult.

Upper-middle-class families are in a weird dead zone with college. They make too much to qualify for meaningful financial aid, but not enough to casually write $100,000 checks every year without it completely changing their life. So the kid looks rich on paper, gets little help, and the parents are expected to absorb the cost of a house down payment every single year. College pricing has also obviously become absurd.

@WSOP @espn Absolutely ret@rded to delay for three weeks, kill all the hype, drama, tension, anticipation and attention that is already on the tournamnet. Everyone is going to move on with their lives and on to different things. Since GG took over your management is green and weak.

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@anishgiri It looks really stupid when you use AI to write your social media posts. You and all other GMs do well at chess because you're naturally talented, not because you study harder - be serious.

The Myth of “Love Learning” People often ask me how to get better at chess. My answer is almost the opposite of what people expect. You don’t have to love learning. In fact, if you wait until you love the process, you’ll probably never become very good. We romanticize improvement. We imagine great players waking up excited to study endgames, analyze losses, or memorize opening lines. Sometimes that’s true. Most of the time it isn’t. Improvement is often boring. The difference between an amateur and a professional isn’t that the professional enjoys every minute. It’s that they keep going when they don’t. People say children are fearless learners. I’m not so sure. Children quit things constantly. Piano. Swimming. Languages. Football. Chess. They usually continue only because someone else insists they do. Parents. Teachers. Coaches. Discipline often comes before passion, not after. The same is true for adults. We tell people to “follow your curiosity.” That’s wonderful advice if curiosity happens to last. Usually it doesn’t. Every meaningful skill has a point where curiosity runs out and routine takes over. That’s where improvement actually begins. Chess certainly did not always feel like play to me. There were tournaments where the last thing I wanted to do after six hours of defending a miserable endgame was analyze another five hours. There were openings I studied not because they fascinated me, but because my opponents forced me to. There were positions I analyzed simply because they were objectively important. Not because they were fun. Because they needed to be done. People often criticize schools for asking the wrong questions. But there’s another side to that story. If everyone only studied the questions they found interesting, most people would develop huge blind spots. Sometimes someone else knows what you need to learn before you do. Nobody is naturally curious about tax law before becoming an accountant. Or anatomy before becoming a surgeon. Or rook endings before losing enough of them. External structure isn’t always the enemy of learning. Often it’s the bridge that gets you to the point where genuine curiosity develops. The biggest obstacle isn’t fear of looking stupid. It’s our addiction to doing only what feels rewarding today. Modern life gives us endless opportunities to switch the moment something becomes difficult. A new opening. A new productivity system. A new app. A new hobby. Very few people simply keep doing the same useful thing for years. That’s the superpower. So when people ask how to improve at chess, I don’t tell them to fall in love with learning. Love helps. Curiosity helps. Being willing to fail helps. But none of those are reliable. Build habits that survive the days when none of those feelings are there. Because mastery isn’t built on motivation. It’s built on showing up after motivation has left the room.

@BoringBiz_ Please clarify how your friend came into possession of his home and where his income/savings came from?

I told my unemployed friend that the plan was to make $10M, use it to buy a home, and park the rest in dividend stocks. At 3% yield, you can safely earn a pretty decent income to not have to work again He asked me what I would do with my time once that happens Told him I would probably spend my days relaxing at home, reading a book I love, and spending free time with friends and family whenever I can He responded that he already does this and never had to earn $10M to be able to do it Completely changed my perspective on life

@PatrickWhatUp_ No responsible or intelligent parents would ever encourage their kids to undertake poker as a career

It would’ve been so great to have parents that understand and play poker, and supported my involvement in poker, instead of parents who don’t understand it whatsoever, think it’s gambling just like blackjack or craps, and think I’m an idiot for participating in it.

@LexerLux .

mass shooter meets cameraman even more mentally ill than he is. unstoppable force meets immovable object

@OliviaSmith042 Loool

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@boomer2420 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker Most of those online companies did not exist two decades ago.

@JPReilly15 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker That’s just revenue. It’s not being reflected in many of the public companies stock prices. Hasn’t really grown in two decades.

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@boomer2420 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker There isn't a single "market cap" because poker is an industry, not a publicly traded company. However, the industry's annual revenue can be estimated, and in 2026 that is around $10 billion. If you think that's small fry then good luck to you sir.

@JPReilly15 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker Yeah $3.9 billion is really low for a market cap. Fly on a cows ass in terms of businesses.

@boomer2420 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker I'm afraid not dude. It's not publicly available information as they're private companies but estimates are detailed below:

@JPReilly15 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker And a third of them are $1000 or less per tourney. Thats not really growth dude. And NSUS Group has an estimated revenue of $27.8 million. That’s peanuts dude.

@boomer2420 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker 14 out of 100 are less than $1000. It has made poker far more accessible to people of all incomes and resulted in the massive increase in numbers at the WSOP. That is growth.

@boomer2420 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker It's a multi-billion dollar industry. Online poker bigger in 2006 than today? Cmon dude be serious 😂 grandviewresearch.com/industry-analy…

@JPReilly15 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker Find. Numbers. I was playing online in 2006, it was more prevalent than today.

@boomer2420 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker And as far as WSOP figures are concerned, aside from massive increases in revenue, there is also more than twice as many bracelet tournaments now as there was in 2006, in a range of different formats.

@JPReilly15 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker Fine, find numbers that support it. Casino stocks don’t indicate it. WSOP numbers don’t indicate it. Find something that does. Then factor in inflation, aka 63% since 2006. So money needs to be 63% more now just to break even. I’m showing you numbers. Your answer is trust me bro

@boomer2420 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker You could not be more wrong. Poker has grown into a global industry. Online poker has brought millions of players in, with huge tournament fields and 24/7 global access. Poker now has record live events, major international festivals, and is bigger and more accessible than ever.

@JPReilly15 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker Now do 2006 to 2026. There’s essentially zero growth.

@boomer2420 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker The ME grew from 839 players in 2003 to over 10,000 entrants in 2024, an increase of 1,100%. Major tours have launched worldwide, prize pools have reached record levels, and live poker has evolved from a casino game into a global entertainment industry with billions in revenue.

@JPReilly15 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker Not at all, but they did nothing with it. Casino miss management and general attitude of the players means reduced payouts, once inflation is factored in, and frankly not doing as well as they should be. It’s been a stagnant business for 20 years.

@boomer2420 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker Revenue of resorts and casinos proves NOTHING about the global growth of poker (which has been massive and is now a $5 billion+ revenue industry each year).

@JPReilly15 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker Dispute this one

@boomer2420 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker A single casino's revenue is not the same as global growth in poker.

@JPReilly15 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker Run like shit. Again 950% sp500 growth vs Wynn at 673%. So doing worse than average. Outside of Reno Resorts, it’s all run like ass with zero growth.

@boomer2420 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker Oh so you just want to skip that part with the most explosive growth in the history of poker eh champ? I'm sure that will give you really accurate understanding of the whole thing.

@JPReilly15 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker You really need to go to 2006 to start. Just starting with the Moneymaker year skews the chart. It’s like saying the stock is up X% since March of 2009. Take a different entry point to now skew the data.

@boomer2420 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker

@JPReilly15 @RealKidPoker @GGPoker I did and showed you the math. You’re coming back with an answer with zero substance. Prize pool at the wsop main event is effectively down 46% in two decades.