Ryan Laplante🏳️‍🌈

All top four made money at 25k HORSE with 21 left, not only that, all have over ave stack

The entirety of the Boundary Waters is being evacuated due to wildfires and it’s being led by eight fearless Wilderness Rangers paddling around to campsites.   1,000,000 acres. 2,000 campsites. 4 teams of rangers. 2 rangers per canoe.

Last little sweat to end the series on.

🚨FACT: Cape Verde are the only team Spain faced at the 2026 World Cup that they DIDN’T beat

@Gags30poker Crush it!

Thank you so much to everyone for all the support over the last few days. I've had so many people reach out and wish me good luck. It's truly heartwarming knowing there are so many people across the world rooting for me. I've tried my best to thank and respond to each and every person, apologies if I missed anyone. Should be a fun final table, I can't wait!

Most people don’t even understand how overly deserving you are of this opportunity. Almost 10 years we’ve had the pleasure of working with you to improve the game and you’ve represented at the highest level. Who else shows up to TDA to give feedback and represent the players? You’ve been our go to for all things @BetMGMPoker. Great player, great ambassador of poker and a great person over all. Take this shit down!

The science strongly supports ending the twice-yearly clock changes. Where the debate begins is which time should be permanent. Most sleep and circadian experts favor permanent standard time, not permanent daylight saving time, because morning light is the strongest cue for aligning our biological clocks. As @hubermanlab has noted, we often confuse what feels good (later sunsets) with what is biologically optimal (earlier morning light).

The explosive diarrhea-causing cyclosporiasis outbreak has now spread to 31 states, with nearly 7,000 potential cases. Last year, RFK ordered the CDC's Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network to stop tracking cyclosporiasis.

What’s scary about the cyclospora outbreak is that the cdc isn’t tracing, so the manufacturer/supplier is likely still unknowingly producing cyclospora infected products. No recalls in sight, no solution in sight. Just explosive diarrhea

Most Majors over the last 20 years: Rory McIlroy - 6 Brooks Koepka - 5 Tiger Woods - 5 Phil Mickelson - 4 Scottie Scheffler - 4 Padraig Harrington - 3 Jordan Spieth - 3

@BobMatherPoker I'll play the 2k and main!

@Protentialmn Circuit event starts today… Toughen up buttercup!

I need like 3 weeks off, then for it to be June 1st again. 😅🤓

Ok hear me out: instead of all of us having to become extremely knowledgeable on a new infectious disease every 3-6 months, what if we got a large group of experts together and just put them in charge of giving us easy to understand health recommendations. They could also do things like track outbreaks and predict future concerns.

E. Jean Carroll was just paid more than $5.6 million by the sitting president of the United States after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing her and a federal judge clarified that what he did was rape. That should be the biggest story in the country today. The president raped a woman. She took him to court. And she won. VIA @theZachBerger

genuinely cannot believe that the Diarrhea Forever meme turned out to be completely literal. this political era simply cannot be parodied or satirized. the stupidest thing you can think of can and will happen.

I don’t know u but u seem to have a following in poker so I’ll answer u instead of the 100s of other trolls on here accusing me of lying. I was not staked for wsop. Luckily, I paid out the people who had small pieces of my modest wins this summer before the robbery took place.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Wishing all the best for @Gags30poker at the Main Event final table! Had the pleasure of interviewing him a few years back... thinkingpoker.net/2016/01/episod…

📊@WSOP 2026 is already the biggest series of all time by entries. There's still late registration open in 4 events. Entries: • 2021: 119.5K • 2022: 182.6K • 2023: 215.3K • 2024: 228.4K • 2025: 246.9K • 2026: 247K+ (likely to finish above 250K) However, it's still slightly behind 2025 in total prize money. • 2025: $481.7M • 2026 so far: $459.5M

As I said before, I am very pro timebanks in the main, but introducing them mid tourney is crazy. The "does it help recs or pros" conversation is glossing over a few key things: The first impact of a shot clock is that your brain now has to play a completely new game in addition to poker which is called "manage your time effectively." When you're taking a timed standardized test, most of your brain is trying to figure out answers, but some % of your brain is also constantly checking the time, evaluating whether it's strategically beneficial to speed up and answer more qs or to slow down and make fewer mistakes. This is a separate process that takes brain power and must run in parallel. Time management is a strategy game, just like poker. Often times a poker decision is very close, and I decide that it's worth more EV to save a timebank than it is to try to squeeze out some extra equity by thinking longer. Sometimes, I choose to burn timebanks on purpose to balance timing tells. Sometimes, I burn them to stall. It's a complicated game that requires thought, and like all games the more experience you have with it, the more it becomes second nature and can run in the background. If you're encountering this game for the first time, it will take up a disproportionate amount of your mind share. The second impact is added stress. Putting a timer on some people causes their brains to short circuit, and for others it doesn't faze them at all. Even if you give them tons of time, most people feel the effects psychologically. I think this is generally a GOOD thing - I find that shot clocks make most players act quicker even before they get close to the buzzer (i.e. folding in 2 seconds instead of in 5 seconds), although there are a couple players who chose to methodically take the whole clock every time. But again, introducing this in a huge equity spot as a surprise is so much worse than having it from the beginning where players have a few days to psychologically acclimate to the feeling of being timed. The third impact is speeding up the game, which obviously benefits better players as you see more hands, but I think that is a good and reasonable outcome, because more hands in general is more enjoyable and better for viewing. Furthermore, it homogenizes the number of hands each table plays, which is fairer. Then lastly, the question of whether the extra thinking time benefits pros or recs more is sort of a wash. High Roller pros benefit from more time because they think much more deeply about the game, while many recs have very simplistic ideas about poker and think the game is straightforward. On the other hand, High Roller pros are also much more used to the shot clocks and much more experienced with tough spots. Kind of a wash, I think. The players who are hurt the most are smart, thinking players who have studied some, but are not high stakes pros and have never been under the bright lights and big stage before. These players benefit a lot from extra time, and having several minutes to slowly work their way to a satisfying choice is very beneficial. In backgammon, (where time pressure is a standard part of the game) I am such a player - I play much, much better with extra time, while I think extremely good and extremely bad players improve much less.