tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-198755372012-01-26T10:58:57.485-08:00No bad beats, but still a poker blog... hence the anguish.Haleynoreply@blogger.comBlogger3811100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-1027589217813724242011-12-03T16:26:00.001-08:002011-12-03T19:29:33.444-08:00

Those of you paying attention in recent days have probably been aware of the leaking of approximately 3.5 million names' worth of data from the UB customer databases in recent days, for purposes uncertain but probably connected to the sale of the data for spamming use. The data may have been viewable by the public for as long as two weeks, but only in the last 48 hours or so was its public

Haleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-18650477361112407952011-11-30T21:19:00.000-08:002011-12-01T08:37:33.573-08:00

Time to return to the tales of AP and UB with a lighthearted look at one of the more public (and kinda pathetic) persons of the whole AP affair, one Philip Scott Tom. He's Scott Tom's daddy, and he figures in a whole bunch of entertaining stories, some directly connected to the cheating at Absolute Poker, and others not so much.Phil Tom, as he's more commonly known, is quite the star unto

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-10884734886392466442011-09-20T21:45:00.000-07:002011-09-20T21:55:31.925-07:00

No time like the present! And the present has been very, very busy. Folks have been wondering about the lack of posts here, but, not to worry -- work on the book proceeds apace. The majority of the book is in the tank, and we're working on the final chapters and the editing. If anything, it's turned into an even more complex and detailed story, and it's important to me and to everyone

Haleynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-26985269673239215122011-07-11T16:55:00.000-07:002011-07-11T17:08:37.473-07:00

FROM: MR RAYED BITARIUS.The Manager,Audit/Account SectionFull Tiltican Development Bank.(F.T.D.B.)Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso.Dear Friend of Full Tilt,How are you today? Hope all is well. Please be informed that I have decided to contact you for a fund transfer transaction worth the sum of US$ 9,300,000.00 into your reliable Full Tilt account as the sole NEXT-OF-RAIL to the foreign deceased customer

Haleynoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-56963157714463146022011-05-11T05:57:00.001-07:002011-05-31T13:55:59.931-07:00

To clarify a couple of things for readers, the short piece on the corporate shenanigans of Absolute Poker appearing in the online Sunday version of Dagens Naeringsliv (dn.no) is not the major nuclear bomb against AP ownership that I referenced last time out. To view the longer and more important piece in its original entirety, you need to click on that link within the story linked above and fork

Haleynoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-22246562252703266312011-05-09T09:49:00.000-07:002011-05-09T10:05:15.499-07:00

Dimat Enterprises, Inc. is pleased to announce the signing of Haley Hintze to author a book covering the UltimateBet and Absolute Poker online cheating scandal. The as-yet-untitled book will be released in the Fall of 2011. Haley Hintze is a veteran writer/editor with decades of published writing credits, and at one time served as Editor-in-Chief of PokerNews.com. She reported on the Absolute

Haleynoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-12407692787761463052011-05-09T07:36:00.000-07:002011-05-09T09:47:28.699-07:00

I've received word that a major new investigative series on the Absolute Poker scandal has dropped today on the Norwegian site dn.no, hone to the online Dagens Naeringsliv Magazine. This piece is written primarily by Goran Skaalmo and includes a ton of stuff never before made public. I have the article in hand and am searching for someone to do a proper Norwegian-to-English translation so I

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-66563836737749905892011-05-07T09:56:00.001-07:002011-05-07T10:06:09.745-07:00

I'm pretty sure that everyone who reads me also reads Dr. Pauly, but just in case, here's his read-it-as-it-happened account of yesterday's raids against the Costa Rican offices of Absolute Poker and PokerStars. The Stars part of the raid was a big mistake by the authorities. A Spanish TV station picked up some video of the raid, including a scene where they knocked down the doors at a private

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-1861100239560075022011-05-04T17:09:00.000-07:002011-05-05T04:59:36.316-07:00

This one is smoking hot, and points at some of the real reasons that the IDS offices in Costa Rica (the customer support centers for Absolute Poker and UB.com) have closed. The following is a Spanish-language memo to all the CR workers, followed what can only be described as a mind-bending exchange between Paul Leggett and Olman Rimola, operational head of the Costa Rica IDS office. I will

Haleynoreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-90892668735572250402011-05-03T17:06:00.000-07:002011-05-08T13:01:34.083-07:00

I get a lot of complaints from readers that earlier entries in the Just Conjecturin' Series are hard to find via the archives, so here's a list of links to all the posts. starting with the first way back in September of 2009:Just Conjecturin', Volume 1Just Conjecturin', Volume 2: Sebok Signing (w/ Update) Just Conjecturin', Volume 2.5: Oh, Those UB Hand Histories Just Conjecturin', Volume 3: The

Haleynoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-53883684133203277932011-05-03T16:46:00.000-07:002011-05-03T16:53:59.035-07:00

An internal memo sent out at Absolute's Costa Rican offices early this morning:From: The Executive Management Team Date: Monday, May 2, 2011 Re: Restructuring As all of you are aware, action was taken by the U.S. Department of Justice on April 15th and we have closed our US-facing operations. We now have to focus our resources on developing our non-US operations and

Haleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-24340864814471114862011-04-26T11:21:00.000-07:002011-04-26T11:29:32.975-07:00

Nothing too shattering this time out, friends and neighbors, just a quick note. The eight-video series put out by AP that features Paul Leggett being interviewed by Susan Reisler, with a couple of Annie Duke cameos, had been available for almost three years on YouTube.Guess what's been yanked down in the past few days?Not to worry, I had asked someone to archive those a while back and I'll put

Haleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-62318021470245733322011-04-19T18:05:00.000-07:002011-04-19T18:38:21.035-07:00

Once again, major news developments have forced a change of schedule in my "Just Comjecturin'" publishing plans. I'd hoped to have my original Volume 31 up a week or ten days ago, but behind-the-scenes events required me to hold back for a short while.Then, of course, Black Friday happened, and things everywhere are in an uproar. I asked one of my contacts what the latest was regarding the core

Haleynoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-33919031794452674552011-04-17T16:55:00.000-07:002011-04-17T17:22:38.232-07:00

Nope, nit asleep at the switch, just handling paid priorities first while traveling much of the weekend, as I've been doing most weekends of late. The news of the online-poker indictments had me working at a rush on Friday, as I did a last second please-hold-while-I-rewite-things in my News Briefs piece for Lou over at PPN. That's normally the most fun thing that I get to write, every other

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-84468784235110645602011-04-01T05:55:00.000-07:002011-04-01T05:59:49.246-07:00

I was working on some news briefs this morning and visited xe.com to use their currency converter tool. I had to blink about six times to make sure I wasn't suffering hallucinations.Look who's advertising there!

Haleynoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-19339409272903851162011-03-17T21:57:00.000-07:002011-03-22T08:42:59.406-07:00

I promised that Volume 30 would be a doozy, so let's get right to it: Greg Pierson, the President and CEO of ieLogic and Iovation, the company behind the company behind UltimateBet, was another of the likely superusers behind the scandal. This will be a long post, but in this missive you'll find a good deal of the circumstantial net of evidence pointing to Pierson, and also learn of the virtual

Haleynoreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-64988913277009309822011-02-28T16:47:00.000-08:002011-03-01T12:17:35.584-08:00

It's been a busy couple of weeks dealing with the latest revelations emerging in the UltimateBet online cheating scandal, triggered by Travis Makar's cold-call into the Donkdown radio podcast over at Donkdown Poker. Makar and the DD staff have had several contacts since then, with Makar forwarding a somewhat redacted version of an e-mail he had obtained at some point, with the e-mail clearly

Haleynoreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-75637730277722735622011-02-23T19:59:00.000-08:002011-02-23T21:01:41.046-08:00

Continuing from the last time out, it was last fall when I was contacted by an anonymous source via e-mail who offered to share with me a few documents relating to the mysterious appearance/disappearance of a poster called "brainwashdodo" on the 2+2 discussion forums.I'd already had brainwashdodo ID'd to me by this time, but I'd held back from publishing it, seeking confirmation, not wanting to

Haleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-33360330036881454592011-02-18T13:38:00.000-08:002011-02-18T16:35:23.581-08:00

For all things there comes a time, and now is the time to return to the ongoing scandals at UltimateBet and Absolute Poker, in a continuing attempt to out all of the crooked people involved. This time out we take a bit of a detour and explore not one of the corporate bigwigs, but rather the bit player whose personal greed ended up outing Russ Hamilton as one of the primary cheats behind the UB

Haleynoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-56354744695186812212010-12-07T13:47:00.001-08:002010-12-07T13:49:58.738-08:00

I'll be serving up various and sundry comments over at the KAP blog regarding this highly important topic. While most of us have highly charged opinions on the matter, there's really very little we can do at this point, because the plans have been set in motion by forces beyond poker players' control. We'll just have to continue hanging on to the tiger's tail at this point and see what the next

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-8235820446415498062010-11-28T07:10:00.000-08:002010-11-28T07:33:48.537-08:00

True 'nuff, I've been playing quite a bit of cards the last two or three weeks, mostly poker but with a little bit of cribbage mixed in. Poker's been resurgent mostly because of a hot day last Saturday in which I made six final tables and took down three of the six, along with a nice handful of SNG showings throughout the day; I fire those up continuously to keep the screens full. None of the

Haleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-84603407366370931682010-11-27T07:37:00.000-08:002010-11-29T17:49:37.491-08:00

Hey, all, we're live at last! As I've previously mentioned, I've been working on a series of poker reviews for a revamped site specializing in just that -- serving up reviews of the best poker books around. My work is now appearing at thepokerbookstore.com, where a dozen or so of my reviews can already be found. The site's focus will be poker strategy books, though we'll sneak in the

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-63203137255887606942010-11-16T11:06:00.000-08:002010-11-16T11:14:23.139-08:00

While I continue slowly pulling together pieces for the next several installments of my "Just Conjecturin'" series, the blog itself must go on. But of course I've been busy, playing not too much poker and that little bit not too well, and such stories aren't very interesting, hence the lack of wordage. I've been working on this and that and the next as well, also occupying my time, and some of

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-1076381964282594022010-10-25T08:12:00.001-07:002010-10-25T08:24:32.490-07:00

The WSOP Circuit stop at Hammond, Indiana (not far from Chicago) winds down this week with a $10,000 "high rollers" event today. I'm definitely not a high roller, though I did stop in on Friday and Sunday and play a bit. I hadn't seen a number of industry friends in over a year and I wanted to check in and say hi, and I did that, seeing TD's Nolan and Steve and Charlie and dealers such as Rich

Haleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-17762045716297097762010-09-22T11:53:00.000-07:002010-09-22T11:53:00.368-07:00

Some new documents connected to the ongoing Excapsa/Cereus/AP legal maneuverings have popped up over on the wsbg.com liquidation site, and I'll return to the topic of Avione soon enough. Just note that business name for a bit; it's important. It is, however, just one important element in the net of shell companies surrounding all things Cereus. Today we'll post a bit on other matters, mostly

Haleynoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-37014993802889105142010-09-13T11:42:00.000-07:002010-09-13T11:50:45.885-07:00

A little bit of work comin' my way, it seems, as an under-renovation poker site wants yours truly to do an ongoing, extensive series of book reviews. Once the site is reworked and operational I'll post a link to it here. It's not for a whole lot of pay, but it least it gives me something new to write about.While we're going to start out with many of the classic of poker literature and strategy

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-75919464801824603162010-09-03T10:26:00.001-07:002010-09-03T11:21:24.987-07:00

While I'm waiting for a few hotter leads in the ongoing scandals to work themselves out, I've decided to go back and correct a few of the things I've gotten wrong in previous posts. From Post 1 of this entire series, when I didn't know nearly as much as I do today, I said I'd be willing to get things wrong and fix them later if that's what it took to force the full stories out.That's why I named

Haleynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-7376583213212737742010-08-14T17:38:00.000-07:002010-08-14T17:52:48.741-07:00

As in life, so at the poker table. I fired up three SNGs to see if my 2010 malaise has abated. What a fucking joke of an idea that was.First one, I made an isolation preflop re-raise with QQ and encountered a donkey jam by the BB, someone I already had notes on. This was an easy call, even though he turned up the expected AK. K on flop, IGHN. Checking back through recent tourney histories

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-82877920955820143072010-08-08T10:10:00.000-07:002010-09-02T06:37:33.365-07:00

I added in the following thoughts in a 2+2 thread on these matters, and wanted to toss in a little bit more here:Honestly, I don't know quite how to add up each and all of the pieces myself; I think I have it and then I rethink it again. Unless something hinky was going on, it just does not make sense. The original nacion.com story about the crash included what appeared to be a nod and a wink

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-26213767115838402752010-08-06T09:58:00.000-07:002010-08-06T10:21:03.684-07:00

Last post, I reprised the history of the non-fatal 2007 plane crash of the rented jet carrying AP executives Scott Tom and Hilt Tatum and their spouses, showing how the crash and a possible resumption of the intended vacation by the two executive couples corresponding with a brief gap and subsequent Caribbean island-hopping jaunt by one or more of the people behind the AP insider cheating scandal

Haleynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-14798319691316003522010-08-06T07:10:00.000-07:002010-08-06T09:16:30.800-07:00

With a tip of the hat to the late, great Herve Villechaize...... as well as one to 2+2 poster TookURCookie, for reminding me about the plane crash involving Absolute Poker executives back in 2007. It occurred at 12:50pm on September 3, 2007, at the Juan Santamaria International airport in Alajuela, Costa Rica, just north of Costa Rica, wherein a rented private jet blew a tire just prior to

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-3500110002808595062010-08-03T10:04:00.000-07:002010-08-03T11:00:08.753-07:00

Every once in a while the news peppers us with one of those feel-good stories about a cat that goes off on unintended journey of thousands of miles, hitching a ride in an airplane's cargo hold or climbing up inside a nice, warm engine compartment of an auto, only to wake up and start mewling a couple of time zones away.Famed Absolute Poker house cheating account Greycat did that, too, seemingly,

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-64750938306710699802010-07-26T11:10:00.000-07:002010-07-26T12:13:41.872-07:00

It's been a while since I wrote about the Absolute Poker cheating scandal, but as I return from a brief hiatus today that seems like a good place to resume. Sometimes it's best to wait to see the effects that certain other releases of information have caused, and several factions connected to the whole that is Cereus continue their machinations behind the scenes. Some day, perhaps, I'll create

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-59698151212479995882010-06-24T12:35:00.000-07:002010-06-24T13:55:27.981-07:00

Sorry for the bloggus interruptus, folks, but between the part-time gig and an emergency family trip to Wisconsin for ten days in mid-June, this stuff had to take a back seat. I also wanted to give Chops at Wicked Chops Poker a chance to publish Part 1 of his planned series on the UltimateBet scandal, and that was interesting, if a bit of an empty tease. Here's hoping there's more to come in

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-19763192526957200842010-06-02T14:38:00.000-07:002010-06-02T14:48:04.461-07:00

I just caught this on the Yahoo! newswire, via an AP feed:[By FRANKLIN BRICENO, Associated Press Writer Franklin Briceno, Associated Press Writer]LIMA, Peru – A young Dutchman previously arrested in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway is the prime suspect in a weekend murder of a Peruvian woman, police said Wednesday.Joran van der Sloot is being sought in the Sunday killing of

Haleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-82401484318683760022010-05-28T06:26:00.000-07:002010-06-04T13:52:56.433-07:00

I'm jumbling my planned order of posts this fine Friday morning to address the news that Wicked Chops Poker is planning on releasing what is believed to be a partial list of 15 names/accounts associated with the online poker cheating scandal at UltimateBet spanning several years last decade. In its laughable "official" final report, the Kahnawake Gaming Commission cited Russ Hamilton as the

Haleynoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-88935762402996746982010-05-21T13:14:00.000-07:002010-05-22T10:17:21.152-07:00

By the time all was officially said and done in the UltimateBet scandal, two waves of refunds had been issued, for a combined total of over $22 million. That number alone is staggering, and the exact number of players to whom refunds were issued has never been released. It was, by any definition, an industry-changing episode. How the $22 million amount was determined and how it was distributed

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-1291637135831561302010-05-17T15:15:00.000-07:002010-05-18T08:24:16.685-07:00

"Dodo is a former UB employee. He was a $4 hr CS agent with a brain. He knew he had the goods to blackmail. He went to AP first and they said so what. Go tell. They didn't realize what he had. He is being paid off now, which is why you haven't seen any more." -- Source withheldOne of the most intriguing episodes in the annals of the UltimateBet scandal was the appearance on the 2+2 poker

Haleynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-38311434017357453272010-05-11T10:45:00.000-07:002010-05-11T14:29:02.985-07:00

Last time out, I relayed screen grabs connected to the 2007 cheating incidents at Absolute Poker that confirmed the hypotheses that the primary cheater at AP was Scott Tom and that much of the information contained in official releases, even that issued by the KGC, was incorrect.I also reported that while cheating accounts such as the infamous "PotRipper" and "doubledrag" were relatively new, the

Haleynoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-82824204055182000802010-05-04T05:10:00.000-07:002010-05-04T08:14:29.592-07:00

When last we left the topic of Absolute Poker's 2007 scandal, readers were presented a handful of screen grabs obtained from internal 'ieSnare' glimpses of account activity. The capability to these ieSnares originated on AP's sister site, UltimateBet, and when the two sites were merged the ieSnare software was adapted to detect fraud on both sides of what would become the present-day Cereus.

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-68240860330373085112010-05-01T07:22:00.000-07:002010-05-01T11:24:49.251-07:00

In its official report of January 18th, 2008, the Kahnawake Gaming Commmission identified seven accounts that were connected to the online cheating at Absolute Poker during August and September of 2007. According to that report, these were the cheating accounts:GRAYCATPAYUPSTEAMROLLERPOTRIPPERXXCASHMONEYXX also known as SUPERCARDM55DOUBLEDRAGRONFALDOXXB also known as ROMNALDOEach of these

Haleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-79983656341305616932010-04-28T18:35:00.000-07:002010-04-29T11:09:25.951-07:00

One of the things that was amusing to me when I was recently forwarded information on the Absolute Poker online scandal was that attached to the account information for "PotRipper" was a screen grab, presumably done internally, of the IP address 200.122.181.104, which back in October of 2007 became vital as investigation into that infamous tourney continued. I've reformatted the table I've

Haleynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-90722200063268749032010-04-24T15:18:00.000-07:002010-05-02T21:03:25.836-07:00

You'll pardon this interruption from the ongoing conjecture about the UltimateBet online cheating scandal to visit the similar situation that unfolded during the same era at then-not-quite-sister-site Absolute Poker. While my investigation into the much larger cheating saga at UB.com* has always been rather clinical in nature, I've focused my attention on it for two reasons. First, the UB

Haleynoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-33848924487177116232010-04-24T09:23:00.000-07:002010-04-24T10:30:31.561-07:00

Second verse, same as the first? Several readers have pointed out to me two recent public documents regarding entities connected to the Ultimate Bet -- UB.com these days -- online cheating scandal. The new documents involve the second suspension of monthly payments made by UB/AP purchaser Blast-Off Limited, which is just another name for Joe Norton's Tokwiro Enterprises ERNG, to the original UB

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-20360679742271245632010-04-20T10:05:00.000-07:002010-04-20T12:23:16.970-07:00

Last weekend was my annual migration to Stevens Point, WI for the World's Largest Trivia Contest. This contest has run for 41 years, and I've played for the last 18 or 20, the last 12 or 14 on the same team. Each year the contest draws over 400 teams and about 12,000 players, making it a true community event, benefitting the college's radio station.The contest runs 54 hours, straight, making it

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-21810405569581566352010-04-11T21:44:00.000-07:002010-04-11T21:47:02.747-07:00

You can turn off the doomswitch any fucking time now. It's been months of run-cold -- ridiculous beats by the hundreds and enough coolers to chill drinks for the next Super Bowl. Enough is enough.*sigh*

Haleynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-65531782185186861742010-04-06T14:46:00.001-07:002010-04-06T15:14:30.768-07:00

Spring is in the air... finally... and while for me that includes participation in the World's Largest Trivia Contest (Stevens Point, WI), it also gave me the chance to stop in with my old trivia friends on the Saturday night of Easter weekend and play some old-time, silly poker.I'd forgotten how much I missed sitting down at a table playing silly made-up games for a dollar or three. Sure, there

Haleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-26706014623865838332010-04-01T00:15:00.000-07:002010-04-01T00:15:00.467-07:00

The Kahnawake Gaming Commission today confirmed its ongoing efforts in the long-running UltimateBet online poker scandal by releasing a roster of noted authorities to whom information regarding individuals connected to known cheating accounts has been released.According to a Mohawks of Kahnawake spokesperson, "We believe this confirms our diligent efforts to see the UB perpetrators brought to

Haleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-35291838517432409912010-02-28T06:43:00.000-08:002010-02-28T08:10:51.146-08:00

Thanks to the infighting and legal positioning connected to the sale of UltimateBet software owner Excapsa, and that firm's subsequent movement into what's now become a suspect liquidation status, observers are able to get a peek into some of the structure behind the now-infamous firm. More on that one soon; it's on the list. A few posts back I wrote about how the initial sale to Blast Off, an

Haleynoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-45597444308174974632010-02-24T06:45:00.000-08:002010-02-24T07:04:32.858-08:00

One of the benefits of my new part-time job is that it's poker-related, and I often have call to use my own e-mail account to assist in doing a slightly updated "sneaker net" version of shuffling various files around from one machine or user to another, meaning I can keep tap of my own e-mails as I work. Mid-Monday morning I received the offer from Stars regarding their latest upcoming online

Haleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-66726898320033225752010-02-17T10:21:00.000-08:002010-02-17T10:29:55.341-08:00

A piece at a time, the ownership package behind Excapsa (software-parent holding company for online poker/blackjack concern UltimateBet) continues to fall into place. While this is only a means to an end, as will be brought up in a later post, more and more of the Excapsa ownership picture circa 2007-08 begins to emerge, thanks to information gleaned from court documents connected to the ongoing

Haleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-13529705121069670092010-02-13T10:05:00.000-08:002010-02-28T09:26:07.850-08:00

One of the questions regarding the transfer of UB operations from Excapsa to Blast-Off around the end of 2006 is, how clean have the new management's hands been in dealing with the online cheating scandal, which began to crack open in 2007. I was willing to grant them that status barring indicators to the contrary, and there is no doubt that UB is a much safer place to play today, all things

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-71533832801976593772010-02-10T06:07:00.000-08:002010-02-10T06:17:06.553-08:00

I know, ho-hum to you left coasters, but we don't get 'em here except for this morning. I was sleeping on the couch, and a very loud boom woke me up. I sat up, and everything shook back and forth for about ten seconds, maybe three times per second, picking back up once before dying out. I was aligned roughly in the direction of the quake as I sat up, so it was to-and-fro shaking as I felt it,

Haleynoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-21745339089575239012010-02-07T09:31:00.000-08:002010-02-07T18:08:39.087-08:00

Back again with a bit more on the Barry/Mimi hand histories, which have become the topic of some conversation. When last I posted, I’d become aware that Seebs had mentioned my blog and ongoing research in his blog, pertaining to the runs of missing hands prevalent in the hand histories (HH’s) sent out to affected players in the wake of the online cheating scandal at UltimateBet, now renamed

Haleynoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-16381302842054551262010-02-06T14:48:00.000-08:002010-02-07T10:23:22.107-08:00

Got an e-mail from KevMath a few minutes ago, along with two that purported to be from Joe Sebok but were instead just porn and/or pharm spam. (I've got Joe's contact stuff anyhow, so that's just sorta funny.) As to why....In Joe's latest blog, he mentioned how I had posted how choppy the hands were that Barry Greenstein put up on PokerRoad. I examined and resorted some of those hands, and I

Haleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-74298830812056533012010-02-03T19:59:00.000-08:002010-02-03T20:04:33.565-08:00

A friend of mine showed me this mailing he received from his bank last week. Meh:

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-19177957850761741412010-01-24T09:20:00.000-08:002010-01-24T12:55:05.071-08:00

"Sent down for the expert again, and this time he struck a most dazzling idea--he fixed the thing so that opening the kitchen door would take off the alarm. It was a noble idea, and he charged accordingly. But you already foresee the result. I switched on the alarm every night at bed-time, no longer trusting on Thomas's frail memory; and as soon as the lights were out the burglars walked in at

Haleynoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-43091554090610045782010-01-18T17:23:00.000-08:002010-02-17T09:06:39.319-08:00

It's been a couple of months since I delved into the fallout from the long-running UB online poker scandal, and I left off at that time with a bit of a cliffhanger. Let's resume the discussion with two numbers, which are the total extant shares of UB-software licensor Excapsa, before and after the limited resolution of the scandal as published by the KGC:Excapsa, 2006: 201,804,155 shares6356095

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-86197948870827454652010-01-14T13:43:00.000-08:002010-01-14T13:44:34.834-08:00

I'm finally working again, after way, way too long of a dry spell, and I will be catching up on some of those long overdue post topics. Stay tuned.

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-9365513862630649852009-11-21T10:52:00.000-08:002009-11-21T11:26:33.244-08:00

I've been tracking a number of story lines with idle curiosity the past few months, including the tragic assassination in Sweden of PokerListings founder Andreas Oscarsson. Oscarsson was assassinated in front of his two-year-old son, after returning to live in Trollhattan, Sweden, nearly two years after relinquishing his stake in PokerListings, according to other reports.This latest take first

Haleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-13701538258580739922009-11-20T09:31:00.000-08:002009-11-20T10:43:09.968-08:00

On rare occasions I get inquiries about advertising on this here modest blog. I'm reticent about ads in general, because this is my personal space, and I almost never accept contextual ads because I'm a believer in "church and state" regarding editorial content. I detest crap that's poorly camouflaged advertorial. Of course, shady advertisers try to disguise their ads as often as possible.I got

Haleynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-26182352511783250522009-11-19T11:11:00.000-08:002009-11-20T15:33:53.050-08:00

Yeah, it's been a while since I ventured into the land of UltimateBet UB.com, as it's not a joyful thing to have to sit down and write. Nonetheless, even as the general cowardice and cravenness of the poker world never ceases to amaze me, I note that someone has to do this stuff. So, before I'm off to wash my hands yet again...When last I brought up the topic of UltimateBet and its original

Haleynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-71714098411403357422009-11-09T00:04:00.000-08:002009-11-09T01:05:02.167-08:00

Warning: Little or no poker content.As in the classic Bing Crosby hit, which I've heard a whole bunch lately, since it's been in the regular rotation on the "Swing Kings" channel on DishTV that I often turn on as background music, particularly late at night. Big-band music is something that I enjoy now and then, and listening to this channel is part of my neverending quest to expand my personal

Haleynoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-46507869200581184572009-11-08T16:06:00.001-08:002009-11-08T16:55:27.053-08:00

It's bad enough to feel isolated, as I do of late, but when a weird weekend conspires with itself to laminate the word onto one's forehead, it's just time to shake the ol' noggin and pray that the plastic somehow peels free.I have a high-speed connection in my apartment... normally. Late Friday morning it went out, and none of the usual reboot tricks to modem, router, or computer would restore

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-2906202355714688322009-11-02T10:20:00.000-08:002009-11-02T13:39:42.238-08:00

PokerPhars Announces Phar Phlung Pan-Pacific Poker Friends TourFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEIn a move to establish market share among a heretofore untapped geographical audience, fledgling site PokerPhars.net announces its brand new Phar Phlung Pan-Pacific Poker Friends Tour (PPPPPFT). The PPPPPFT promises high-stakes poker action, incredible South Pacific vistas, plenty of Sense-Sarong* waitress

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-83262920398775592912009-10-30T10:58:00.001-07:002009-11-03T13:05:15.138-08:00

Just wanted you all to know that if you're finding this on a site called PokerBlips, it is unauthorized content theft. Let's see how long before the asshats react, shall we?UPDATE: Awww, they have seemed to have removed it within fifteen minutes of my complaint, without bothering to acknowledge the theft or apologize for it. Them's classy peeps! Checking out a couple of pages there, I can see

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-57772626254298284392009-10-30T10:58:00.000-07:002009-10-30T11:02:44.293-07:00

...and cleaned out a lot of the crap links. No reason for me to provide free linkage to sites that have been converted to affiliate shell sites, or don't post, or are otherwise dead weight, or for any of several other reasons. Go do your own work, peeps; I've always done mine.

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-19512816091168498162009-10-21T16:59:00.000-07:002009-10-21T17:40:22.034-07:00

Yeah, I was a bit overtired when I wrote that Day 1 synopsis. Lots of typooohs. Anyhow, I had my A game for Day 1, but not so much for Day 2. I simply did not get a good night's sleep, and it might have come back to bite me. We resumed at 2pm on Monday, 30 players at four tables, needing to get down to 18 to reach the money, then on from there. I'd had a great table on Sunday, but on Monday

Haleynoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-25767914369697814532009-10-20T14:17:00.000-07:002009-10-21T14:43:35.885-07:00

I had a tough choice entering this past weekend. I could drive up to the old stomping grounds in central Wisconsin and play a weekend-long cribbage tourney, or I could head over to the Horseshoe Chicagoland in Hammond, IN for one of the preliminary events in that venue's second annual WSOP Circuit series.I opted for the poker, in good part because it's likely the only opportunity I'll have to

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-36309479963247539442009-10-20T14:08:00.000-07:002009-10-20T14:16:17.598-07:00

Hi, kids,I'm all back now from a busy two days at the WSOP Circuit stop over at Horseshoe Chicagoland, which means I'll be cranking out several lengthy posts over the next few days. Among the things on the immediate agenda:* The next installment in my "Just Conjecturin'" series, which I plan to continue for quite some time;* A recap of my fun over at the WSOPC;* A review of James McManus's

Haleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-39020164941957560272009-10-06T08:58:00.000-07:002009-10-06T09:28:42.598-07:00

When the movers and shakers behind the UltimateBet online poker site needed to dump their original liquidator, Mintz and Partners, Ltd., the resulting call for votes by share exposed a thin majority of Excapsa’s ownership to public scrutiny. All told, votes in the affirmative were obtained on behalf of 113,969,851 of 201,804,155 outstanding shares in the company, or 56.4%. Partial lists of the

Haleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-4365890470374252162009-09-30T18:19:00.000-07:002009-09-30T18:24:15.455-07:00

Author’s note: This piece is a combination of known facts and conjecture based on the best available public information. Anyone with concrete facts related to these matters is welcome to submit those facts to me, with documentation, so any errors contained herein can be corrected.One thing about legal maneuvers is that they always leave a paper trail… somewhere. Such was the case when the

Haleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-21848258872534557012009-09-24T10:12:00.000-07:002009-09-24T10:54:48.956-07:00

Not "The 56% Solution" this time out, since the UB situation continues its next stage of development rather independent of onlookers' more general commentary. It's good to see that UB, via new signee Joe Sebok, has finally unveiled a two-stage plan to get hand histories out to affected players. The first part of the plan will be a spreadsheet of hands played against cheating accounts sent to

Haleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-73960760784398810122009-09-22T06:56:00.000-07:002009-09-22T16:06:56.998-07:00

Saw this morning that Joe Sebok's signing with UB was finally announced. Back in July there were several "rumor" stories on a handful of sites, such as this one. It was one of those open secrets. Now we can ascertain that UB was likely waiting for the official KGC release on the UB insider cheating scandal to drop (and settle down a hair) before going forward with the official Sebok signing.I

Haleynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-6198640555495300072009-09-14T19:47:00.000-07:002009-09-14T20:04:14.132-07:00

(Warning: No poker content.)Despite having owned a share of Packers stock for many years, Sunday night was the first game I'd been to in perhaps half a decade. It was also the first chance I'd had to visit the rebuilt, improved Club section, as my sister and I made the trip over for the annual battle against Da Bears. Way too many Bears jerseys in the crowd, by the way; it's obvious the FIB

Haleynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-63607627608289703112009-09-11T21:12:00.000-07:002009-09-12T06:05:39.548-07:00

A Kahnawake Gaming Commission representative called me this afternoon to let me know that the KGC report on UltimateBet was forthcoming. If you want to read it yourself, click here. I was aware of the ongoing KGC process in pulling together the report, including complications that delayed it significantly from when it was originally promised. There was the lengthier than expected Kahnawake

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-17077067229935212822009-09-07T18:25:00.000-07:002009-09-11T21:49:24.758-07:00

Did you ever wonder how the UltimateBet and Absolute Poker insider scandals unfolded? Those that know all the answers won't say, so it's left to the rest of us to offer conjecture. Since UB/AP/KGC/Tokwiro/whoever feel little need to publish all the gory details, I figure it falls into the "fair game" category for ongoing comment. Note that I could be full of it on some of the details, but

Haleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-2557583612530875952009-09-01T22:28:00.000-07:002009-09-11T21:46:21.096-07:00

A Major Apology Here: The stuff I said about young toolboxes at the tables still stands, but a major apology here by me. It wasn't Elie Doft. It was some imitator using the handle "What is 7+6", whereas Elie uses "What is 7x6". I didn't pick up on the difference. Elie also thought I was attacking Mickey, but I wasn't; Mickey's one of the hardest, best live workers I've seen in the poker

Haleynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-70468104270844837262009-08-28T11:30:00.001-07:002009-08-28T11:34:35.125-07:00

Back in the saddle, more or less, and just in time for the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) at Stars. I'll play between two and five of the events depending on bankroll, which has undergone another dip in the last two weeks. I did pick up one Level 4 ($200+15) steps entry already, and it looks like the razz (!) tourney on Sep. 4 is the likeliest use for that. The early 8-game event

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-19020629680019906972009-08-25T09:54:00.001-07:002009-08-25T10:15:42.176-07:00

I have returned... from the first wave of vacation trips I promised myself during August. There was the 12-day trip to northern Wisconsin (which I'll reprise next month), followed by a short four-day jaunt to the camp country north of Muskegon, Michigan. I won't bore you with too many details, though I did tangle with a deer near the end of my Wisconsin trip. It's the fourth deer I've biffed

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-63956058815757689392009-08-03T14:03:00.000-07:002009-08-03T14:27:43.578-07:00

Being goal-oriented is something that I never used to be. I suppose that's changed some as I've grown older, merely because there are things that I want to do in my remaining years, and goals are a means of achieving those things. However, I seldom set goals for goals' sake, nor make iron-clad resolutions. But as my vacation begins, I know it's time again to get my life in better order. I've

Haleynoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-33151772560455067532009-08-02T17:45:00.000-07:002009-08-02T17:49:07.503-07:00

And enough of that. More things I'll talk about at a later date, but I plan on vacationing for about a month in an attempt to get back my health. It was a rough summer in more ways than one.Assuming I get over the virus which currently has me on couch duty, I plan to spend a good share of August fishing and golfing and doing all sorts of useless nothing. I have a few little tasks to handle,

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-64456360252434887442009-06-24T13:57:00.000-07:002009-06-24T14:09:43.136-07:00

Once in a while, something occurs that reminds me just how amateur so much of the "poker media" is. I wrote about it a hair more at my blog over at PokerNews, but either way, I found it disappointing, and it's one of those odd lasting memories that will likely stay with me for a while.Several times during the conference, other poker writers in attendance broke out into brief rounds of applause,

Haleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-52397358255793595442009-06-20T20:55:00.000-07:002009-06-20T21:15:02.972-07:00

Somewhere in the introduction to one of Stephen King's books, King writes about going for certain visceral reactions. I'm paraphrasing him here, because whatever book it's in is about 2,000 miles away, but he wrote that the terror of a true scary moment is best, and then there was always the shock factor to shoot for, and if that didn't work, he wasn't too proud -- he'd try to gross the reader

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-34084414288066948312009-06-11T16:43:00.000-07:002009-06-11T16:48:42.327-07:00

Or so they tell me I'll be, when I venture out to Commerce next spring to take part in the WPT Celebrity Invitational. I blogged about it a bit in my 2009 WSOP "Editor's Blog" available at PokerNews, which is where I'll be throwing up many of my idle/random thoughts the next several weeks. There are two or three funny tales from the first portion of the WSOP already in that blog, so stop on by.

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-11938986023696975702009-06-11T16:20:00.000-07:002009-06-11T16:28:04.709-07:00

So I'm a bit superstitious. I have a two-sided Bodog card cap (my favorite of the three I carry and use), which I occasionally flip from red to black as I play to try and get out of a bad run of cards.Once in a while, perhaps once a month, I'll look through a stack of bills I receive and see if there are any interesting serial numbers, for potential use in dollar poker or some other

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-87739307830658107412009-05-15T09:21:00.001-07:002009-05-15T09:32:55.448-07:00

I was on Skype with Kevmath yesterday when he mentioned to me that the Texas bill about the expansion of poker in that state had reached the floor for a second reading. He shipped the link so I tuned in to watch the carnage and the dreadful punnery.That was quick. I'd mention the line about laws and sausages, except the few minutes I saw was so unintentionally funny it reminded me more of the

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-1005510299149490092009-05-07T20:39:00.000-07:002009-05-07T20:48:13.096-07:00

I was laughing at Shamus's recent post about "being played" by a hand, and had to wait less than a day before I encountered one that I think trumps his example. Sometimes the hand history alone tells the best story, so you be the judge:Table '160514545 2' 9-max Seat #6 is the buttonSeat 1: KydenB (1500 in chips) Seat 2: linnj7 (1430 in chips) Seat 3: CawtBluffin (1500 in chips) Seat 4: AKShotgun

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-21419196043043984862009-05-03T19:45:00.001-07:002009-05-03T19:47:11.434-07:00

A body or two with copy-editing experience and poker knowledge. Gud spelliers always a pluss. Drop me a line if interested.

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-88309953052877137302009-05-03T19:40:00.000-07:002009-05-03T19:44:29.794-07:00

Logged my first-ever Sunday Million cash today and went out in 499th spot. Last hand, I had aces, other player had kings. King flopped, and it turned out another player had folded K-7, so it was ye olde one-outer.Why no whine? Easy, really. I'd gotten it all in with A-K about three laps earlier and ran it square into pocket aces, and the board on that one ran out 6-5-7-8-9. We all have

Haleynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-69256502644605824642009-04-04T07:35:00.000-07:002009-04-04T08:00:44.539-07:00

Once in a while, someone attempts a play that leaves you scratching your head and thinking that it must have seemed like a good idea at the time.I was playing in an $11 re-buy on Merge, and had been fortunate to chip up from 2,000 to about 24,000 thanks to some bizarre (and by this point, departed) players. Blinds were 100/200 or 150/300 or something at this point, and I was in middle position

Haleynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-39096716495070578152009-04-01T11:25:00.000-07:002009-04-01T11:35:14.823-07:00

Precious little poker content in this one, since between sleep and work, there hasn't been time for anything else.So there I was weekend before last, becoming violently ill. High fever, profuse sweats, outbreak of something chicken pox-like all over my body. As Caldwell would say, "Bad times." I was too sick to get myself to the doctor for a couple of days at the outset (if that makes sense),

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-90397025875885363532009-03-20T10:44:00.000-07:002009-03-20T10:47:52.280-07:00

Yes, I've succumbed to the evil empire and am starting to add friends. I haven't verified my account yet so it's tossing me the two-word verification box. For April's, it tossed me "shipped" and "$600".In her dreams. Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool.

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-62891974769795322742009-03-17T14:08:00.000-07:002009-03-17T14:37:15.700-07:00

Long-time readers of this blog know I have a healthy aversion to a certain starting hand in no-fold'em-hold'em, that being A-Q. While there are times that I'll play the hand as if it was aces, I've had so much bad luck with it, like Doyle Brunson, that I just won't play it hard a lot of the time. (It's about the only thing Doyle's game and mine have in common, by the way.)But last night, I

Haleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-33772359801836746562009-03-14T07:42:00.000-07:002009-03-14T08:24:49.980-07:00

Little to report on from my ever-rare excursions to the felt, hence the momentary downtime in spewing pixels. I tried the first of the BBT events a couple of weeks back, but went out early after getting all the chips in good against Missy Hoy early on. I flopped a straight while he flopped top set, and the chips went in on the turn. He then caught a queen on the river for quads and used my

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-14488898656113058302009-02-26T13:44:00.000-08:002009-06-09T12:28:34.840-07:00

One of these days, I'm a-gonna recapture my magic at the table. I thought I had turned the corner earlier this month, but an extended downswing in the last week has me right back to square one.I'm also going to switch up the sites I play on, although its been rare of late when I've had the chance to play. Since I'm on this slide at Stars and Merge recently, and I'm saving my meager Tilt 'roll

Haleynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-72691725754774622652009-02-13T22:29:00.000-08:002009-02-13T23:03:36.129-08:00

The poker world is quite volatile. I'm sipping a few beers this evening, playing a couple of SNGs out of boredom. Not really enjoying them. For the first time in my life, I really don't want much to do at the moment with poker. Dreaming of other things, because somewhere over the last however long, it just became the gig.I had thought about moving out to Vegas. I've decided against that for

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-71482736745534879462009-02-07T08:06:00.000-08:002009-02-07T08:37:04.300-08:00

Some days are rough. Yesterday was a real bad one and today's likely to be about the same. I've enjoyed playing in the DSE the past two days but it's an omen of greater things -- my luck is clearly nowhere at the moment.The first day I had a table with at least five horrid players, and a couple of those were replaced as they departed with still other easy marks. Alas, my card distribution was

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-18725095351462054542009-01-31T20:53:00.000-08:002009-01-31T21:50:37.807-08:00

Not much poker content in this one, in part because I've been too busy working of late. The sum total of my poker of late is a handful of small online tourneys and a single trip to Hammond Horseshoe, where I partook of one of their $110 Thursday tourneys of late. I just barely cashed in that one -- 14th of 14 of 110, but at least it's three-fer-three in terms of cashing at tournaments at the

Haleynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19875537.post-83350174302238016292009-01-31T09:53:00.000-08:002009-01-31T09:55:21.244-08:00

I've decided to give ChipMeUp a try. I'm still figuring out the various bells and whistles so it may be a bit before I'm up and running on it properly. Anyone interested can e-mail me for details.

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