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Tuan vs. Antawn – Toto HK

Posted on August 3, 2022August 7, 2022 by Mock George

I’m watching Toto HK after Dark right now, and an interesting prop bet was brought up. Poker pro Tuan Le made a bet with basketball superstar (and fellow Tar Heel) Antawn Jamison. It’s one-on-one basketball, Tuan vs. ‘Tawn, make it take it, up to 12, 1 point each basket. But…

Tuan gets a 9-0 lead to start.
Antawn can take only 3 point shots.
Antawn has to wear slacks, a dress shirt, and out-of-the-box loafers.

Plus Tuan gets 5-1 odds on the bet. Tuan says he’s in good shape and can ball. I gotta figure he’s the favorite, right? I mean, Antawn has to hit 12 3-point shots before Tuan hits 3 normal shots. And Antawn is going to be slip sliding all over the place, so it’s gotta be tough to keep running around keeping up with Tuan. Of course, being make-it-take-it, Antawn might be able to hit 12 3-pointers in a row. After all, he should have a clear shot every time – he probably has at least a foot on Tuan.

I think I’d take that bet if I could get it. Now, these guys are probably playing $10k to win $50k. I’m not in that ballpark, but I’d probably be willing to risk $500 to win $2500 on it. If I lose, at least I’d have a story.

Office Olympics Event #1

Event #1 of the office olympics took place last night at Knights Play Par 3 golf course in Apex. Only six of us showed up which was somewhat disappointing. One had to catch a 6am flight this morning, one had a class to attend, and one was just being whiny – I guess it was past his bedtime. I had an adventure getting there, taking a wrong turn and showing up about 10 minutes late and having to skip the first hole. I’m really a complete moron sometimes – I suck at directions. I’m sure I could blame Google, but it was probably user error.

Overall, I didn’t play that great, but then again, it was only the second time I’d played in two years. I had never played at Knights Play before, and it was surprisingly a very nice course considering it’s just a par-3. You’d figure hackers who have no business being out there would have torn it up by now, but they do a great job maintaining it.

PayU2Blog Golf

Vegas odds (in my imagination) had Dave as a 2/1 favorite, but they didn’t factor in that he’s 60 years old and his eyes aren’t what they used to be. Playing in the lights started getting to him, especially on the back nine. He had the best score on the front nine, then fell apart on the back. We played in two separate groups, and without knowing it, Heath and Derek were in a tight battle. Heath had a few doubles on the back, which cost him – Derek ended up taking the gold medal by two strokes. Heath did take $5 from me on greenies though. And I managed to sneak into third place – probably because I didn’t have any blowup holes.

So congratulations to Biggus. Next event will probably be either poker or bowling. I think I have a pretty good chance in both.…

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เเทงหวยออนไลน์ on a Mac / BloggerPods

Posted on July 20, 2022July 27, 2022 by Mock George

The BloggerPods tournament has been picking up a lot during the past few days. Theres more then 40 bloggers registered and ready to join, with a day to go. Wow! It seemed like just last week it was on pace to get around about 20 players.

It probably still would have been in the 10s, if it wasn’t for the help from TripJax and Jordan. They wrote really awesome posts about the great opportunity this is, and urging others to join and show their support, before anybody really knew about it. Thanks!!

Poker on a Mac

Ive been really busy trying to make a new template for เเทงหวยออนไลน์ on a Mac that will make it cleaner, easier to update, and easier to navigate when theres more content. The way it is now makes it hard to fit in and organize new pages. Im good with Photoshop and getting better with the coding, but I dont have the design skills, so its coming along slow.

I need to manage my time better. Ive been working hard on a new layout, but not really adding any content or updating anything else. Ill have to try and write a page every day (…Starting tomorrow, of course).

As for poker, I still have $1,000 in tournament money and a bonus in my pokerstars account. I haven’t been playing because of a combination of being burnt out, doing other things, and laziness. I’ll get back into it soon though – it goes in phases.

Party Poker for Mac

I never thought it would happen, but party poker finally released a client for Macs. It’s still in beta, so there’s a bunch of bugs and real money play isn’t available yet, but they’re working to bring all the features to it.

The new version uses java, which allows you to launch Party Poker on all the major web browsers. It’s similar to PokerRoom, where you don’t need to download any software. Try it out with your existing account.

Lee Jones’ thoughts on the anti-gambling bill

I was watching the new 25/50 NL table on pokerstars, when Lee came in and started talking to the players. Some of the players started talking about the latest Gambling bill, that may make online poker more illegal than it already is (I guess), and Lee gave his opinion on it.

I know some of you are saying, “Screw Lee Jones. He just works the kill switch on pokerstars. Bork bork bork!”. But if he came out and said, “It looks like this bills going to pass and it’s going to have a large effect on online poker, folks.”, I’d be pretty worried.

I also don’t see online poker slowing down any time in the next few years, no matter what the government tries to do to stop it. When paypal and credit cards stopped supporting poker and casino sites years ago, people thought it was going to be the end of online poker. But it’s only grown exponentially since then.

Still Alive

This is just a quick post to let everyone know that Im still around. Ive been sick for the past week or so, and just too drowsy to do anything. This weeks highlights have been making $200 through casino bonus chasing, and winning $80 through a few online bets on the Nathans hotdog eating contest.…

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Oleksii Kovalchuk Wins bandar judi pulsa Event 26

Posted on July 11, 2022July 13, 2022 by Mock George

For several agonizing seconds, it looked as though Oleskii Kovalchuk’s first trip to a bandar judi pulsa final table would be a brief one. With his set of fours floundering against Anthony Ruberto’s set of jacks, he sat quietly, awaiting his fate. But somehow, down to his final out, Kovalchuck drew the final four in the deck, giving him four of a kind to beat his opponent’s newly full house. With the momentum now in his court, the 21 year-old from the Ukraine began his march toward victory.

That was the story in the 26th event of this year’s World Series of Poker, a $2,500 6-handed match of No Limit Hold’em. A total of 1,378 people dropped the necessary buy-in, bringing the total prize pool to $3,134,950. The top 126 players received a return on their investment, with a minimum payout of $5,235.

Prior to his win in Event 26, Kovalchuck had posted a pair of cashes in this year’s WSOP. The first came in Event 10 (NLHE, Six-Handed, $1,500) with a 99th place finish, followed by a 105th place berth in Event 22 (PL Omaha, $1,500). For his latest effort, the youngster netted $689,739.

All in all, the young man has collected a sizable haul in his first outing with the WSOP. But, as he told reporters, monetary value plays only a small roll in his desire to play:

“I feel very happy. I do not know what to say. I do not think about the money. The money is second to me. I wanted the gold bracelet and to win.”

Here’s the final table rundown on Event 26:

#1 – Oleksii Kovalchuk ($689,739)

#2 – Anton Ionel ($428,140)

#3 – Chris Moorman ($271,800)

#4 – Dan O’Brien ($179,162)

#5 – Mazin Khoury ($121,416)

#6 – Anthony Ruberto ($84,549)

Mark Rodoja has claimed the crown in the World Series of Poker’s twenty-fourth event of 2011, taking home $436,568 for his efforts.

The event itself featured a $5,000 buy-in, running a three-round shootout of No Limit Texas Hold’em. 387 players ponied up the necessary cash, bringing the field’s total prize pool to $1,818,900. Among those finishing in the money were noted pros Erik Seidel, Gavin Smith, and James Akenhead, each of whom pocketed $13,368.

In the end, Radoja, a 25 year-old grinder from Ontario, walked away with his first bracelet and ninth WSOP cash over the past five years. Specifically, he hails from the small town of Guelph, which has produced several prominent poker names.

“You will not find a tougher $5,000 or lower buy-in field for the World Series,” said the Canadian-born champ, “or anywhere else in the world than this one. This was the best field ever assembled for a tournament like this. You can ask anyone in it… I was fortunate, because two of the best players went out early. You have to catch cards at the right time. Looking back, I have no regrets about decisions I made. But you have to get lucky too, along the way. I played my best, got lucky at times, and here I am.”

The event will be remembered for its wild chip swings, which nearly cost Radoja his berth at the final table. Things got particularly dicey during his second round heads-up match, when he squared off against Yasuhiro Waki. Asked to describe the encounter the eventual winner described it as “definitely the most epic heads-up ever.

“I would say no one has ever had a heads-up match like that before,” the winner told ESPN. “I had him 550,000 to 50,000. Then, he had me 550,000 to my 50,000. I came back and won. At one point, he had flopped trips on an 8-8-6 board. He had A-8 and I had A-6. I ended up making the runner-runner flush, or I wouldn’t even be here. There were so many incredible, mind-boggling things that happened when we were heads-up.”

Among the biggest personalities at the final table were runner up Jeffery Gross (who logged his highest in-the-money finish to date), and ninth place finisher Sean Getzwiller, who just days before had captured a bracelet in Event 8, a $1,000 NLHE affair.…

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On Why it’s good to SUCK at sbo poker

Posted on July 8, 2022July 18, 2022 by Mock George

I killed time at work tonight with some UFP archives. That Otis can write up a storm, and its been fun trying to remember the homegames-gone-by. In one I found something that was hurting his game, a lesson he learned the hard way, and found again how the inverse has kept me flush with imaginary cash.

Otis is an excellent poker player and would like to be recognized as such. It’s well deserved.

I’ve become a very profitable player, but have spent years cultivating a very poor sbo poker reputation. Pride is a seductive lover who will always leave you poor. Better lucky than good.

I’m just dumb and lucky.

Back when we started playing at the BadBlood homegame Otis had an unusually poor night. He said this in the post-game writeup…

“I hadn’t played at this game before, I wanted to look good. I wanted people to see me as I see myself: A solid poker player.”

To be fair, he immediatley learned his mistake. The last thing you ever want is a table full of people who are sure you’re a solid player. Otis can’t shake that now. Every hack card player for 50 miles has heard about his fantastic new career. They EXPECT him to dominate the game and it makes it very hard to cash in on monster hands. Plus, its like flying low with a bullseye on your belly.

These days I’ve noticed BadBlood has a similar problem. He’s the first with a self-depricating remark, the first to denegrate his own ability, but he’s an excellent player. Unfortunately, everyone’s figured that out.

That leads to a problem that’s really two-fold.

First, when you’re playing with less-than-stellar players, there’s no room for tricky moves. We do play with several solid players, in fact I’d say at least half are quite good, but we also play with a good many calling stations…maniacs..and newbies. There’s a point in every hand where you realize they’re NEVER going to fold and there’s no point making a play. Some players don’t recognize a check raise and they won’t calculate pot odds. Without that BadBlood loses ammo. He can only see the turn with hands that are likely winners.

But, because BadBlood is recognized as a good player, many of the good players, who would recognize a move, are hesitant to call down his premium hands. Again, the EV is crippled. Somehow he usually turns a profit anyway, which is testament to just how much better he is. I still haven’t figured out how to beat him, and I have no clue how he earns big wins.

I, on the other hand, have the opposite image. Take last Friday for example. After winning the tournament at “the Mark” all I could say to BadBlood on the way home was, “They all think I suck!!”. More than anything, I was able to tell when the flop missed my opponent. The guy across from me, for example, actually SIGHED OUT LOUD…sometimes he’s even mutter a curse underhis breath EVERY TIME the flop missed. Then he’d check. At first I was wary of a deceptive play, but it wasn’t. He’d fold and I’d show the bluff. The whole table called me stupid.

After the tournament, we played a cash game, and a couple of the players talked about me like I wasn’t even there.

“This is where players like him get crushed,” said one.

“I hope he tries those idiotic plays on me,” said another.

I doubled my buy-in, showing the bluff every time.

When CJ and I played at the Luxor on the last day of our Vegas trip I had another pair of players with similar opinions of me. They sat in the 8 and 9 seats with me down in the one. I found K9 of hearts in the big blind and called their 8 dollar raise. 3 players to the flop.

The flop was j,9,A with 2 spades.

I checked and 8 seat bet another $10 with a 9 seat call. I called.

The turn was a 7. I checked and the 8 bet another $10 with another call from 9.

I called.

The river was the third spade…AND BOTH PLAYERS THREW UP THEIR ARMS AND CURSED. Not only did they see the flush on the board, but they made It clear that they didn’t have it. Both players checked, and both folded to my $50 bet. I showed my pair of 9s and they insulted me for 30 minutes.

BUT I’VE ALWAYS BEEN STUPID..

Thank God for that. On our regular Thursday dealer’s choice game, I’ve been the biggest winner for 5 of the past 7 sessions, but somehow its all chalked up to luck. I’m happy to be that stupid. I’ve talked to BadBlood about that and he says its quite a blessing. I totally agree.

I remember, on our first blogger meeting last December, Pauly wrote about the various cover stories he used with the Las Vegas fish. He’d NEVER admit to being skilled. I didn’t know then what a good strategy that was.

It only works in live games by the way, you can’t do this online. Everyone’s anonymous there. Otis KILLS the online game and I usually struggle with the grind. But in person, stupid is a blessing. Ignorance is bliss. Insults will buy your groceries.…

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Facebook Video Marketing Online Training

Posted on July 2, 2022July 6, 2022 by Mock George

Grow Your Business with Facebook Video Marketing

If you’ve been struggling with Facebook Marketing in general, Facebook Video Marketing might be the answer to questions you probably never asked. That’s how it is sometimes. You were afraid of video marketing. You were clueless about video marketing. You don’t have a video camera or video software.

Confused about Facebook Video Marketing?

What if I could show you the skills you need to succeed in Facebook Video Marketing?

What if I could train you in Facebook Video Marketing in a single online training session?

What if I could train you in Facebook Video Marketing for less than $50?

What if I could show you how to do it without spending a dime on video or editing equipment?

Facebook Video Marketing has been working really well. I have had over half of my fans on my Pages watching my videos regularly.

Facebook Video Marketing Online Training Registration Starts Soon

Facebook Video Marketing Embed Code

Recently Facebook began to allow you to share your videos with an embed code, just like YouTube. This has amazing power in conjunction with a tracking pixel. This allows you to build a custom audience for your Facebook video marketing programs. That is if you choose to use paid marketing on Facebook. If not, then you still can have access to the stats in your Video Insights.

If you want to learn more about how Facebook Video Marketing works, and how you can make it work for you, please register for my newsletter here and I’ll send you the details about my upcoming online and video training sessions.

Facebook Video Marketing Equipment

Most of you won’t have to buy anything new. You can use your phone or digital camera for Facebook Video Marketing. I love to use my phone. I often use my webcam. You can use free software for Facebook Video Marketing. I’ll show you how it’s done in one online training session. Saving you the money of buying new gear and software alone is worth the price of admission.

Increase Sales with Facebook Video Marketing

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Because it works.

Let me show you how you can save money while making money with Facebook Video Marketing. Register here and I’ll send you the registration email when I have sessions scheduled. Let’s fill all the seats available and get you to the top of your video marketing game.

Facebook Promotions Basic Rules

Keep in mind that these might change at any time, so be sure to check on the Facebook Pages Rules HERE before you do anything you could regret later. Here is the current version.

Promotions
If you use Facebook to communicate or administer a promotion (ex: a contest or sweepstakes), you are responsible for the lawful operation of that promotion, including:
The official rules;
Offer terms and eligibility requirements (ex: age and residency restrictions); and
Compliance with applicable rules and regulations governing the promotion and all prizes offered (ex: registration and obtaining necessary regulatory approvals)
Promotions on Facebook must include the following:
A complete release of Facebook by each entrant or participant.
Acknowledgement that the promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook.
Promotions may be administered on Pages or within apps on Facebook. Personal Timelines and friend connections must not be used to administer promotions (ex: “share on your Timeline to enter” or “share on your friend’s Timeline to get additional entries”, and “tag your friends in this post to enter” are not permitted).
We will not assist you in the administration of your promotion, and you agree that if you use our service to administer your promotion, you do so at your own risk.

Be sure to carefully craft your own waiver/disclaimer content to meet the above guidelines.…

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Summer 1990, slothoki plus 14 years

Posted on June 30, 2022July 10, 2022 by Mock George

The swimminess, those shimmers that rise over the red cinders, the way the humidity hangs a burlap curtain over your mouth… they are all things I remember from the summer of 1990.

I remember the run lasting longer than it normally did and being almost deathly afraid to stop. I remember, but barely, opening my mouth and letting the cold ice water shoot from my stomach and on to the football practice field below my feet. It had barely had time to mix with the contents in my gut, so it didn’t taste too bad.

Over my shoulder, I knew he was standing there, his hand likely grabbing at his crotch, at the cancer that would one day kill him.

His name was Reuben Berry. He’d been a pro football slothoki coach in Canada and had fathered a son, Todd, that would one day go on to coach Army’s football team. I knew he was watching me, even if he wasn’t.

Rube had a way with words. No one knew for sure at the time why he’d moved from Canada down to a small town in southwest Missouri to coach a small-town football team. They only knew his pre-game and post-game speeches were poetry.

I was not a good football player, but I stayed on the team for years. The pride I saw in my father’s eyes when I caught my first touchdown pass was too much to quit the game. Still, I was not any good.

Ol’ Rube had a way of complimenting his players.

“See Schafer over there? You hear his balls drop? Just like a big bull. Boooom! Boom!”

It was the highest of praise for Rube to hear your balls drop. When a linebacker laid a hit on a running back, you could hear Rube screaming from 80 yards away, “BOOOOOOOOM!”

Early on in my not-so-illustrious career as a wide receiver, I occasionally took on the name Teflon Hands.

Nothing stuck to them, least of all, the ball.

For that reason, and a few others, no one was as surpised as me on the day I found myself running at a dead sprint down the sideline, looking back to see Danny throw the pefect spiral, watching over my shoulder as the ball reached its zenith, appearing to be painfully out of reach. No one was as surpised as me when I threw my body into horizontal flight, extended my arms, and snatched the oblong ball from the air.

I crashed into the sunbaked mud, wishing that the catch had come during a key game rather than a hot, afternoon practice.

But then I heard it, loud from across the field. It was Rube’s crazy injun voice, bellowing through the haze.

“You see Otis over there? You hear his balls drop?”

I waited, rolling over on the ground. He was was going to make my day.

“You hear’em? ….tink, tink.”

He actually said “tink, tink.”

I loved that man, but I’m still not entirely sure why.

I was not a good football player. In fact, I was so bad that I often found myself playing out of position on the practice squad.

One afternoon while playing the role of linebacker, a real sonofabitch (also real talented) named Manary blindsided me with a star-shooting block that left me out of breath and seeing God.

When I finally got up, I found that I was a worse football player than I had been before the hit.

The hit had been so hard, it had scared me. For a week or so, I was ineffective as any sort of player. I had gone from a poor player to a scared player.

Ol’ Rube had been right after all.

Tink, tink, indeed.…

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Think Your Skin Is Aging You?

Posted on June 26, 2022June 25, 2022 by Mock George

Anti-Aging Tips and Facts You Should Know

As we age, so does our skin. It looses it elasticiaty, develops fine lines and wrinkles and spots, sometimes referred to as “age spots”. Below are some tips and facts about again skin.

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WHAT DOES COLLAGEN DO?

Can skincare products actually boost your collagen levels? Collagen, which keeps our skin looking young, can be enhanced or boosted by skincare products that contain retinoids. The concentrations required generally mean that these will be prescription products.

CAREFUL WITH YOUR EYELIDS

Eyelids can easily become irritated, so moisturizing at bed time can protect them. This diminishes water loss which can cause cracking of the skin.

OPTIONS FOR FIGHTING FINE LINES AND WRINKLES

Concerned about wrinkles? There are a number of options for fine lines and wrinkles. First protect yourself from further sun exposure. Medical treatments include creams containing retinoids, chemical peels or lasers. Cosmeceuticals may also help if they contain vitamin or botanical antioxidants or if they use substances that can influence cell regulation such as growth factors and molecules called peptides.

CREAM OR LOTION?

If you’re over the age of 50 or work outside, you may find yourself with dry and itchy skin. Choose a moisturizing cream rather than lotion to replenish your skin’s moisture levels and reduce the itch.

DOES YOUR HAIR STYLE DATE YOU?

Feel like you’re “looking your age”? Try an updated hair style or get your eye brows tweezed. Both of these can take years off your looks and make you feel better to boot!

HELP TO REVERSE WRINKLES FROM SUN DAMAGE

Coenzyme Q 10 can help you reduce your wrinkles. Ubiquinone (Coenzyme Q 10) is synthesized in all cells. It is antioxidant. It can reduce cell damage from Ultraviolet A. It has been shown to reverse wrinkles of the skin caused by sun damage. To learn more about your interest on “cool springs plastic surgery reviews“, check here

FIGHTING CROW’S FEET

Hoping to avoid crow’s feet? You can minimize the likelihood of developing wrinkles around your eyes by applying sunscreen (but remember, not too close to the eye) and wearing protective eyewear, such as wraparound sunglasses. Some wrinkles are produced by repeated movement of the skin.

GETTING RID OF WRINKLES

Can any skin care products actually get rid of wrinkles? Unfortunately, no. Moisturizers can reduce the appearance of wrinkles, but they won’t make them go away. Embrace those laugh lines!

Fighting Wrinkles

What to do once they arrive

IS THERE MORE THAN ONE KIND OF WRINKLE?

Did you know there are two kinds of wrinkles? Wrinkles on the skin are divided into those produced by movement of the skin and those that are present when the skin of the face is at rest. Moisturizers can only work by minimizing the appearance of fine lines in skin at rest that are caused by dehydration of the skin.

AVOIDING CROW’S FEET

WHAT IS AHA?

AHA are carboxylic acids. Glycolic acid comes from sugar cane, lactic acid from sour milk and citric acid from citrus fruit. They have an ability to exfoliate and moisturize the skin. They may also reduce pigment production in individuals who have melasma. They may thicken the skin by increasing what is called the ground substance in the dermis. Learn more about chemical peels and products like Reversa™ by clicking on http://www.cosmeticprocedureguide.ca/chemical_peels.html

PILLOW CREASES CAN BE AVOID

Did you wake up with a huge crease on your face from sleeping? Wash your face with tepid water, then use your moisturizer and massage in outward circles for a few minutes to help “plump up” those lines. Also try using a firmer pillow and even satin pillow cases, so that your face does not “fold into” the pillow.

VITAMIN C IS GOOD FOR THE SKIN AND WRINKLES

Vitamin C is a natural antioxidant present in citrus fruit and dark green leafy vegetables. It can reduce the appearance of sun damage on the skin as well as reduce brown pigmentation from the sun as well as melasma. It may have an anti acne effect especially when combined with glycolic acid The stability of the Vitamin C depends on the formulation of the product.

USE SUNSCREEN EACH DAY!

A recent study looked at what happened when women applied sunscreen for three out of four days instead of daily. Those who didn’t apply sunscreen daily had skin changes that were visible under a microscope – changes that over time translate into sun-damaged skin.

VITAMINS CAN FIGHT AGING

Look for these vitamins to fight wrinkles. Vitamin antioxidants that may have an effect on fine lines on the skin include vitamin E, C as well as the retinoids which are vitamin A derivatives: niacinamide, alpha lipoic acid , ubiquinone and idebenone are the other ingredients to look for.

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Retirement Planning: Have You Waited Too Long?

Posted on June 25, 2022June 24, 2022 by Mock George

If you’re in your twenties or early thirties, you might have student loans, rent (or even a mortgage), and bills. You might have just started a family or you are thinking about starting one. With all of that on your plate, retirement can seem like a too-distant target to even bother worrying about right now. You’ve got enough to deal with already and there’s always time later, right? Wrong. Retirement planning is more important right now than you might think and the longer you put it off, the more difficult it becomes. Here’s 5 reasons why you shouldn’t wait a second longer to start planning for your Brassica investment retirement:

#1 Retirement Planning Gets More Expensive as You Go

If you start putting aside a couple hundred bucks each month from the age of 25, you’ll be able to achieve your retirement goal with a lower monthly burden. To reach that same exact retirement goal when starting at, say, the age of 40, you’ll have to fork over a larger portion of your income each month. That’s because you have given yourself less time for retirement planning.

No matter how many financial responsibilities you have now, maneuvering your budget to put something toward retirement each month will help keep the burden of saving for retirement at a manageable level.

To put that in more quantifiable terms, studies have found that people who start saving at 25 only need to put 15% of their income into retirement. By comparison, someone who starts at 44 will have to set aside 44% (or nearly half) of their income in order to achieve the same results.

#2 Retirement Fund Trumps Your Kid’s College Fund

Yes, it sounds harsh but it’s true. If you take a moment to think about it, you’ll realize your retirement fund is actually more important to your children than their own college fund is and here’s why:

If you reach retirement age without a sufficient nest egg to live on, who do you think is going to end up supporting you? It’s almost always the children who are left with the financial burden of caring for their parents.

If that happens, you will most likely become a burden on them right as they are trying to take care of their new families and save up for their own retirement. Your refusal to secure your own future could mean the ruin of their future as well when they are forced to make tough sacrifices in order to care for you.

In case that’s not enough, consider the fact that it will be much easier to save for both retirement and a college fund if you start early enough that you only need to contribute 15% or so to retirement. So retirement planning early is better for both you and your children!

#3 The Earlier You Start, the More You Can Save

Not only is the burden on your monthly budget much lighter the earlier you start retirement planning, but you have the opportunity to save more. There are a few reasons for this:

You can afford to make a few higher risk, higher reward investments since you will have time to recover from them if they fail. And if they don’t fail, you’ll have stronger growth than you would with a more conservative investment plan.

You’ll earn more in compound interest on any savings.

You’ll have some more wiggle room to work toward a higher goal. In other words, instead of just saving up to live on a percentage of your current annual income or even just matching it, you could plan to exceed it and spend your golden years in luxury.

The earlier start retirement planning, the more options you have for setting better goals and achieving better results. You don’t have to just get by in retirement, you could plan to really live out your dreams.

#4 You Can’t Rely on Your Employer Anymore

Less than half of employed millennials (aged 18 to 29) today have an adequate 401(k) or other retirement savings option offered by their employers. For comparison, about 2/3 of people aged 45 to 64 are blessed with an employer offered retirement plan.

If you’re young, your thought process might be something like “I’m young. I just started my career. I’ll just wait until my company offers a 401(k) or I land a job that comes with one.” However, this is starting to become wishful thinking and it’s not worth risking your future by putting retirement planning off until some unknown time when it will be easier.

retirement planning

Take retirement planning into your own hands now and if you have the opportunity to get on an employer plan later, great, add that into the mix. What you can do is open up an IRA today and start contributing to it. If you get a 401(k) later on in the game, develop a strategy for juggling both of them.

#5 You Could Retire Early if You Wanted

If you start saving early and commit to it, you could realistically achieve your retirement goal faster and earlier than you would otherwise. If you are 25 now and wanted to retire at 45, you would need to make higher monthly contributions (probably somewhere around half of your monthly income).

The tradeoff for that kind of discipline is the ability to break out of the grind and spend more of your life pursuing your passions and dreams without the stress of financial trouble.

Whatever age you are at now, it’s time to start planning and saving for your retirement. If you are barely 18 years old, you would still benefit from starting now and needing to save even less than 15% of your income! So take the time now to develop a workable retirement plan. There are a lot of financial tools out there to help you. The sooner you start, the easier it will be to save and the better your retirement will be!…

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This week at 먹튀사이트 (29th April – 5th May)

Posted on June 19, 2022July 4, 2022 by Mock George

If you thought last week was full of goodies, this week is going to blow you socks off. We have world-class mental game coaches, Top Tournament Directors, and elite players all in for AMAs, and we’re still giving away money. We must be crazy!

FTR Member Only Tournaments

Tuesday the 30th brings us a PokerStars and FTR event, where you get to play your way to your part of a free $250. Must be the time of the month for the FTRStars250!

The event has $250 added, and it only costs $3.30 to play. The only other thing you need is the password, which will be released to FTR 먹튀사이트 Qualified Members about an hour before the tournament begins at 21:00WET (16:00ET).

More Details are available here.

FlopTurniver AMA bonanza

We have the worlds foremost expert in the Mental Aspects of playing poker, Jared Tendler, available to answer your questions between 18:00 and 19:30 ET. Jared has coached many of the worlds best, and I learned this week, he also coaches Ben “Bttech86″ Tollerene, who has been butting heads with Viktor Blom on the highest stakes PLO tables recently.

You can pop over the thread, and ask questions of this expert, and maybe get his help to work through your mental game blocks.

Wednesday also brings us André Coimbra, and his AMA. The Portuguese member of PkerStars Team Online is a former Magic: The Gathering World Champion, and he recently threw away his SuperNova Elite status on PokerStars to give his $100 to $100,000 challenge a level playing field to start from.

Pop over to the thread and ask him a question or two, in Portuguese or English.

The last of these top quality AMAs we’re bringing you this week is Simon Trumper. Simon is joining us on Saturday at 9PM UK (16:00EST) mainly to discuss the upcoming ISPT event being held at Wembley in London. Simon is acting as the Tournament Director for this event, and wants to answer any quetions people may still have about this event.

Come and ask about what might be the only Poker Event to ever grace the green turf of the home of football.

Free Money to try out Full Tilt Poker

I can’t believe we’re still offering this, and it has to come to an end sometime soon, but you can still get $10 free to try out Full Tilt Poker.

To claim it, click on the banner, or click here for more information.

That’s your lot for this week, not that you should be unsatisfied, free money, and three of the top names in poker all willing to answer your questions. We really do spoil you, but if you do have any questions, head over to the thread on the forum, and I’ll see if I can answer them.…

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Dihxm Wins 꽁머니사이트 XVI Event #28

Posted on June 8, 2022June 19, 2022 by Mock George

In the world of regular joe’s, $20,000 per hour is a pretty impressive wage. After earning that kind of cash for a full day, most of us may not need to work for a little while. Such was exactly the case for Dihxm, the winner of 꽁머니사이트 XVI’s 28th Event. After a 9.5 hour stretch at the tables, he emerged victorious. The prize for that playing session? A whopping $191,020.

The $1,000,000 Guaranteed 6-Max, Super Stack tournament kicked into gear yesterday just after 14:00 PM ET. 4,997 players showed up for the $240+$16 event, hosted by Full Tilt personality Marco Liesy.

Play moved quickly once the final table was set, quickly coming to a heads-up battle between Dihxm and number 1PEN. Dihxm had the lead from the outset, sometimes holding as much as a 3:1 chip advantage before number 1PEN fought back to nearly draw even. After 94 hands of back-and-forth fighting, the board came 4sKd6h, with number 1PEN holding KcQc and Dihxm holding 4d9d. The short stack made a small raise with high pair, and the chip leader shoved with a pair of 4′s. number 1PEN immediately called, and looked to be in good shape to double up. But the turn and river were landed with running diamonds (10d8d), giving Dihxm the winning flush.

Just after a quarter-past midnight on May 1, 2010, play completed for the 22nd time in the FTOPS XVI contest. With a first place position worth $86,716.56 on the line, two competitors fought to the finish.

In the end, it was Mement_mori coming out on top of Dimasik59, wrapping play in Event #22. The victory took just over nine hours, with 2,181 players in the field. Once it came down to heads up play, Mement_mori immediately took command. Dimasik59 folded hand after hand without seeing a flop, sometimes going as many as ten consecutive folds before seeing a board. Once all of the tentative player’s chips were finally in the pot with two pair (10′s and 9′s), Mement-mori turned over pocket kings to win with a better two pair (Kings and 9′s).

The final table of this 6-Max, $200+$16 tournament shook out like this:

1: Mement_mori ($86,716.56)

2: Dimasik59 ($55,179.30)

3: Intervention ($38,603.70)

4: cerilloin ($29,007.30)

5: Past ($20,719.500)

6: Mariklus ($13,958.40)

Red Full Tilt player John Turner just barely missed the final cut, coming in in 7th place and taking home $8,767.62. The next highest Red finished was Leandro Brasa, who failed to make the money with a 259th place elimination.

All told, the top 234 places were paid, with the lowest prize weighing in at $348.96.

Yet again, a Full Tilt Red member finished just outside of the final table. This time, it was Ram Vaswani, who was knocked out of action in 7th place. For his trouble, Vaswani took home $19,300. 492 places were paid overall, with the lowest prize weighing in at $350. This was a knockout tournament, as well, with $40 awarded for each bounty.…

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