Saturday, April 28, 2012

How good are the Bulls at sharing the scoring load without superstar D Rose???

http://espn.go.com/chicago/nba/story/_/id/7866701/2012-nba-playoffs-chicago-bulls-derrick-rose-suffers-torn-acl-philadelphia-76ers


The bulls proved all year they could win at home, they could win on the road, they could win with Derek Rose AND THEY CAN EVEN WIN WITHOUT DEREK ROSE. They still managed to compile an incredible record at the top of the elite NBA teams even with their only star injured in one way or another for the entire regular season.....well, it's a good thing they had all that practice. It has just been announced that Rose has now torn the ACL in his left knee in the game yesterday against the 76ers in the first round, first game of the playoffs and will be out the entire playoffs and then have a long recovery as well. 


So, how far should the bulls chances drop? Or do they not even have a chance now in your opinion?

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Good Ol Rawja is back in court.....AGAIN....but THIS TIME he says the REAL truth is going to come out, he'll be vindicated at last!!! Hooray!!! Long Live The King....

I understand what happened now, it's a set-up, I bet Mike Piazza snuck into Roger's mansion while his house "staff" were all on break, ordered some roids, filled a needle and stuck it in between couch cushins. When Rawja sat down he was accidently injected but had no idea...Piazza did this repeatedly for years. He was using reverse psycology by sabotaging the one time greats declining career, instead he saved Clemens from Father Time's grasp.


BASICALLY THE GUY THAT WAS IDOLIZED IN BOSTON BEFORE HIS FIRST OF MANY SWIPES  WITH HIS KNIFE WHEN WERE WALKING AWAY, IS MAINTAINING.....STILLLLLLLL.....THAT EVERYONE IS WRONG, EVERYONE IS LYING, THE WORLD IS AGAINST HIM, HE WOULDN'T LIE TO US AND OF COURSE HE'S TELLING THE TRUTH.
i'LL TELL YA WHAT i THINK. I THINK HE IS A GOD DAMN, SELFISH, CONCEDED, LYING, SCUMBAG. HE THOUGHT HE WAS TOO BIG, TOO IMPORTANT TO BASEBALL AND TO THE WORLD THAT HE WOULD NEVER BE CAUGHT AND EVEN IF HE DID HE CLEARLY EXPECTED NOTHING TO HAPPEN....


I MEAN, WHY SHOULD ANYTHING HAPPEN TO HIM, DO YOU KNOW WHO HE IS??? HE'S ROGER-MOTHA-FUCKIN-CLEMENS. NOW, GO ONLINE AND ORDER HIM ANOTHER BOX OF NEEDLES, A FEW DIFFERENT KINDS OF ROIDS AND A BOX OF SLIM JIMS.....I'M HAVING SOME LADIES OVER TO WATCH ME WHILE I PITCH OFF MY MOUND IN THE BACKYARD....THEIR LUCKY I LET THEM, REMEMBER WHO I AM NOW? ROGER-MOT.....FORGET IT, NEVER MIND. I'M GOING TO JAIL. 


LOL.

Link from ESPN.com article as reference

WOW, BIG NEWS IN THE POKER WORLD HUH????



Below is the article from rakeback.com and their website...what do you guys think? good for poker world or bad? good for online poker or lessening competition between sites will breed more expensive less user friendly options???? 


comment and let me know your take!!!

PokerStars to Buy Full Tilt (Updated with PokerStars Statement)

April 24th, 2012 | 8:55 pm

In a shocking development, it would appear that PokerStars is set to purchase Full Tilt Poker, and that Groupe Bernard Tapie is out of the picture.

By , Rakeback.com Poker News Staff Writer
The rumours seemed unbelievable but it now looks like PokerStars is buying Full Tilt. A tweet from Alex Dreyfuss, Chief Executive of Chili Gaming, said:
“Pokerstars buys FullTilt for a consideration of $750m, including settlement with DOJ and full balances of players (330m). I'm impressed.”
No statement has yet been made by PokerStars, but 2+2 forum super moderator Mike Haven posted:
“I can't confirm that this is true, because of NDA reasons, but I can say that a welcomed press release may follow in the near future.”
Bernard Tapie’s deal which we have all been following looks like it has failed to convince the DoJ.  Gaming industry sources are quoting "unresolvable legal complications and failure to agree on player repayment plan" as the reasons why the GBT deal collapsed.

Groupe Bernard Tapie Statement

In the last few minutes, a full statement has been released by GBT:
“Groupe Bernard Tapie regrets to announce that, after seven months of intensive work, our efforts to obtain final approval of the United States Department of Justice of the agreement to acquire the assets of Full Tilt Poker have ended without success.
Ultimately, the deal failed due to two major issues.
The parties could not agree on a plan for repayment of ROW players.
GBT proposed a plan that would have resulted in immediate reinstatement of all ROW player balances, with a right to withdraw those funds over time, based on the size of the player balance and the extent of the player’s playing activity on the re-launched site.  All players would have been permitted complete withdrawal of their balances, regardless of whether they played on the site, by a date certain, and 94.9% of ROW players would have been fully repaid on day 1.  DOJ ultimately insisted on full repayment with right of withdrawal within 90 days for all players– a surprise demand made in the 11th hour, after months of good-faith negotiations by GBT.
The legal complications surrounding the deal – specifically, questions surrounding the legality of the forfeiture under non-US laws – also proved unresolvable.
All of the key assets of the FTP companies reside outside of the United States.  A non-US court well might regard the purported forfeiture as a “fraudulent transaction” and declare it invalid or deem the acquirer of the assets responsible for all of those creditor obligations.
Given the $80 million purchase price, and the substantial amount of cash needed to relaunch FTP, those issues ultimately proved too substantial to overcome.
GBT is very conscious of the hopes it has created – among FTP employees that they will retain their jobs, among FTP players that they will recover their balances, and among the entire poker community that the world’s finest poker platform will be relaunched and bring a needed added element of competition to a world market that today is fully dominated by a single operator.
GBT cannot accept the end of those hopes.
For that reason, unless a concrete and legally viable solution is found in the very coming days to save the employees and repay the players of FTP, we will move to our own plan of action.
We understand from press reports that the DOJ may have entered into an agreement with PokerStars pursuant to which PokerStars will acquire the FTP assets.
If accurate, we can only assume that PokerStars determined that it was willing to accept these legal and financial risks in order to resolve its own legal situation with DOJ.

If a PokerStars acquisition of FTP means that all FTP players will be fully repaid immediately, we are very happy for the players, as their final and full repayment has always been our priority.
We only regret that such a deal would signal further consolidation of a poker market already dominated by a single player – an outcome that may raise antitrust concerns and that, in the long run, is probably not good for players and for the whole online poker industry.”
PokerStars must have been waiting in the wings to instantly take advantage of the situation. It seems amazing that PokerStars could have kept the negotiations so dark for so long. The due diligence on legal problems and financial liabilities must have involved a huge number of people.
Assuming the deal goes through PokerStars will have removed one legal threat as they will own the intellectual property rights to Rush Poker. With Zoom poker taking so much of the market this advantage has a real value.

PokerStars Comments

PokerStars has released the following statement:
"We've had a lot of enquiries and there's lots of speculation on the forums, so I wanted to address the PokerStars chatter. As you know, PokerStars is in settlement discussions with the U.S. Department of Justice. As such settlement discussions are always confidential, we are unable to comment on rumors. As soon as we have information to share publicly we will do so."