I have built a spreadsheet. It has 847 rows. Each row is a community bank in the United States with a market cap below $200 million, a price-to-tangible-book ratio under 0.85, a non-performing loan ratio below 0.4%, and a CEO who has been in the role for at least twelve years. I update it every Sunday from 6 AM to 11 AM while my family attends church without me. I have visited the headquarters of nineteen of these banks in person. I have eaten a complimentary lobby cookie at each one. The cookies are how you can tell. A bank with a good cookie is a bank that respects its depositors. A bank with a stale cookie is a bank that will be acquired within 36 months at a 40% premium. I am never wrong about the cookies. The cookies have never lied to me. The cookies are the only thing left that tells the truth.
Yesterday felt like some kind of change in the landscape of online poker MTTs. Coin, ACR & WPT all hitting huge fields outside of a traditional “series” time. Games as far as I see from data are softer than they have been for 10 years. Have we stumbled across a new boom?
PokerStars is dead. Long live PokerStars (Exclusively on FanDuel).
🧵 ITS THE POKERSTARS X FANDUEL LAUNCH THREAD 🧵
In this thread i'm going to detail everything that's JUST happened - and, perhaps more critically, what has _not_ - to PokerStars US online poker today.
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PokerStars is now live on PokerStars Exclusively on FanDuel (@PokerStarsUSA)
Shared liquidity across NJ, MI & PA is finally here, a new client replaces legacy software, and the Sunday Million makes its US debut.
A big moment for the market 🇺🇸🎉
https://t.co/DyydZlmhyj
@kwansfull Yea. Just another small step to make regulated poker more viable and eventually appeal to other states that don’t currently have legislation.
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Finally, @WSOP has deployed online satellites 🛰️
🇺🇸 US players can finally qualify online for both the 2026 WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas AND the 2026 WSOP Europe Main Event
$215 buy-in. 1 Seat/Package guaranteed. Two paths.
https://t.co/2t09NQly8c
Happy Valentine’s Day to the guy who cheated on the mother of his first three kids with the mother of his fourth, cheated on her with the mother of his fifth & then cheated on her with a porn star he paid to shut the fuck up about it. ❤️