Topic: Bryan Micon Poker % buying thread: Bellagio $1,080 Position NL 11/29/12 [OPEN] (Read 3284 times)

It's important to pick out the trolls from the absolute solid gold comedy.  Clearly we have the latter on our hands.  Patrick Harnett + Wife, wherever you may be, this one is for you.

hrm.  Seems naive. 

An amazing poker tournament player with an extremely high ROI will cash about 16% of the time.  When you win, you usually win many times the buy in.  In this latest case one of the smaller field tournaments I will play in a year, you win 18x your buy in.  Of course you are going to lose many times, even with a skill advantage, to average a win.

I have my full live results in my signature, and every WSOP I don't need to convince sharp gamblers to back me - they come to me and ask what is available.  I am going to keep listing poker tournaments here, and I will hit one eventually. 

It's fine to make fun because humans do that for whatever reason but those that understand the gamble here will keep betting on me.

My buddy Pat "thakilla" Cruse ended up winning the tourney and a little more than $18k+

Was the -$125 again your results?  I take it you haven't had any luck yet for games you've allowed buy in for bitcoin?

Good luck with your next one.  Seems like you're due.

To be fair, anyone would have lost this hand.  Even if he hadn't gone all in preflop with AK by some psychic power, the king on the flop guaranteed the hand was going all the way.

If I was going to lose my BTC1, I'd rather he'd have totally donked out so I could taunt him about it.

"Bryan Micon's Lose Your Poker Money Buying Thread"

How much did the winner win?

I rate this poker playing AAA-

Byron Micon's Poker Ponzi

yes, full loss.

to be clear, this means you lost, right?

payout = 0?  = donkdown?

got rollin' up to 17k,

blinds 150-300 a25 and I find AK in the sb.

Raise UTG to 675  early, call, call, call, button folds, then the super-button calls, I make it 2700, original raiser folds, first caller makes it 6800, everyone folds back to me, I shove, and he calls quickly with AA

K-x-x flop and had the 2 outer twice and Q river teased but donkdown

I liked the way I played the tournament, really disappointing to be out right now, wanted to play that all night of course.

Good luck!

rec'd / have about 1 hr then leaving for the tourney / last chance!

BACKERS:

Cousin Craig: 23.15%
Reggiman: 23.15%
illpoet: 1%
Crosby: 1%
MistCat 1%
ericrw14 1PqhtxB3HyDCscCkSKVdoDJ3mJ39sR5QmW 1%
1Nite69743fhkAbxm9JrmcGu3Xg89YS14d 1%
Rawwolf 7.72%
MAWSwC 1%

Total: 60.02% will sell another 14% or so

Just sent 1 BTC with txid = b16d015aa58373c84c6cdf363a569425109b7a4a6061dc1f58b1d7ddc6cad577

payout to my Seals account MAWSwC is perfectly fine.

BACKERS:

Cousin Craig: 23.15%
Reggiman: 23.15%
illpoet: 1%
Crosby: 1%
MistCat 1%
ericrw14 1PqhtxB3HyDCscCkSKVdoDJ3mJ39sR5QmW 1%
1Nite69743fhkAbxm9JrmcGu3Xg89YS14d 1%
Rawwolf 7.72%

Total: 59.02% will sell another 15% or so

Updated..

rec'd

BACKERS:

Cousin Craig:  23.15%
Reggiman:  23.15%
illpoet: 1%
Crosby: 1%
MistCat 1%
ericrw14 1PqhtxB3HyDCscCkSKVdoDJ3mJ39sR5QmW  1%

confirmed

BACKERS:

Cousin Craig:  23.15%
Reggiman:  23.15%
illpoet: 1%
Crosby: 1%
MistCat 1%

sent 1 btc txid: 214ded6254f180bef7881d4cd0ee6fa5eacd3e5fb78922314ebeaf54280ad0d6

Return address: 1PqhtxB3HyDCscCkSKVdoDJ3mJ39sR5QmW

Just sent 1 BTC, txid =  2bfb410e5c9929aa872bdc14ea787a090e85b76f21a1a6d9174edc16e1c5ce8f

Payout to 12Mhqv7s1W6yCD1fGQCZ8URGG2urv4xL29

MistCat will do for my name.

Tomorrow:  The Bellagio 5-Diamond $1,000+$80 Position Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney
(I am the reigning champ of this event, besting a field of 100-ish for about $15k when the buy in was $560)

Date: Friday 11/30/12
Time: 12:00 pm PT
buy-in:  $1080
Avg # of players: 100+
1st Place (estimate): $25,000 USD
Venue:  The Bellagio [ http://www.bellagio.com/files/casino/Five_Diamond_World_Poker_Classic.pdf ]
Current MtGox Price: $12.50

I am Selling 1% shares for 1btc (~ 1.15 markup) and have 28 btc left to sell.

send coins here --->  1MALd2BKccYX4uapwtnx1HHcTBziWZ8jSH     & Post (PM if you want to remain anon) a return address (if you are not sending through seals) and the amount you send to me / what method.

my friends bought 46% of me and I'm going to take a hundred or 3 of myself in this tourney tomorrow, depending on what sells.  For those of you wondering what "Position Poker" is, check out the website: http://positionpoker.com/ (it is basically a "super button" that acts after the regular button, and is possessed by the winner of the last pot) I am a shenanigans poker specialist, and this is shenanigans poker.  I won this tourney during last year's 5 diamond series for over $15,000 when it was a $560 buy in:



http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=67931 (look about a year ago on my cashes list)

I always sell pieces of my tournaments on a first-come-first-served basis.  first coins locks it up.  I will also accept chips on Seals.

I will provide tourney updates & pix via my twitter for the duration of the tourney:  @BryanMicon  


GOOD LUCK ALL!  

BACKERS:

Cousin Craig:  23.15%
Reggiman:  23.15%
illpoet: 1%
Crosby: 1%

#justbadluck again / will try again guys

ALL SOLD OUT

10% - unknown hash (will send winnings back to sending hash if no one proves)
10% - illpoet on seals
10% - timewaster on seals
10% - Ieatfish on seals

CLOSED / GLGLGL ALL

Twitter:  @bryanmicon for updates.

shares 2 & 3 went down

10% - unknown hash (will send winnings back to sending hash if no one proves)
10% - illpoet on seals
10% - timewaster on seals

1 share left

sold 1 share, some1 sent me coins but no one contacted me.  obviously whoever shipped it / plz confirm here with some info that will match this transaction ID I have.

heading to play the Friday Night $125 NL MTT at the Orleans, funded by mostly social security checks.

Date: Tonight 9/28
Time: 7:00 pm PT
buy-in:  $125
Avg # of players: 200+
1st Place (estimate): $5,000 USD
Venue:  The Orleans  [ http://static.boydgaming.net/orleanscasino10/media/downloads/PokerRoomDailyTournSchedule_Feb2012.pdf ]
Current MtGox Price: $12.11

I am willing to sell up to 4 (four)  10% pieces of this tournament for 1.5 BTC

In the poker world, we would express this a "1.45 markup" or we would say "I'm paying 45% markup for a piece of Micon in the Orleans Friday night $125 NL" meaning for every $1 of action, you are paying $1.45.  Further more you are doing this because you think I am much better than the field in this competition, and in this particular tournament I have an established 200%+ ROI, meaning you guys are getting a good deal. 

Any winnings I cash in said tournament, 10% will be returned to a hash of your choosing or on Seals if you want.  I will convert at MtGox spot price when I send the funds, i.e. you are gambling in USD as soon as you xfer me the coins and you are holding USD until I send them back - I also promise to send winnings within 24 hours of the tournament end.  If it is a large amount won I may need to take cash to Bitinstant the next day.  It is more than likely I have enough coin on hand to send any winnings immediately, but occasionally this $125 turns into about $5k and while it's a fun issue to have, you guys will need to give me 1 day to convert.

I am going to sell 1 share of this tournament only.  I am constantly testing and refining this process for the first few small tournaments people buy pieces of, and I'm going to try the just 1 share way for this one.

1MALd2BKccYX4uapwtnx1HHcTBziWZ8jSH

I always sell pieces of my tournaments on a first-come-first-served basis.  first coins locks it up.  I will also accept chips on Seals.

As usual I will provide tourney updates, pix of the old ppl, and lulz via my twitter for the duration of the tourney:  @BryanMicon 

GOOD LUCK ALL! 


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Closed / no takers in the small window I had it open.  Gonna run this 1 on my own obv / will report results either way:

-$125 again

heading to play the Friday Night $125 NL MTT at the Orleans, sponsored by Metamucil.

Date: Tonight 9/28
Time: 7:00 pm PT
buy-in:  $125
Venue:  The Orleans  [ http://static.boydgaming.net/orleanscasino10/media/downloads/PokerRoomDailyTournSchedule_Feb2012.pdf ]
Current MtGox Price: $12.39

I am willing to sell a 25% piece of this tournament for 3 BTC

This means that for around $37USD you are buying $31.25 or 25% of tonight's Orleans NL tournament.  Any winnings I cash in said tournament, 25% will be returned to a hash of your choosing or on Seals if you want.  I will convert at MtGox spot price when I send the funds, i.e. you are gambling in USD as soon as you xfer me the coins and you are holding USD until I send them back - I also promise to send winnings within 24 hours of the tournament end.  If it is a large amount won I may need to take cash to Bitinstant the next day.  It is more than likely I have enough coin on hand to send any winnings immediately.

I am going to sell 1 share of this tournament only.  I am constantly testing and refining this process for the first few small tournaments people buy pieces of, and I'm going to try the just 1 share way for this one.

1MALd2BKccYX4uapwtnx1HHcTBziWZ8jSH

first coins locks it up.  I will also accept chips on Seals

then wouldn't User A then post saying "User B is lying - look I can easily prove that transaction came from a wallet I control" 

 I guess that hits on what you were saying earlier not to send from a green address, i.e. a Gox cashout, or some other wallet you can't prove you own.

Actually, what I meant was that anybody could watch your deposit address and claim to have sent a payment sent by anybody else. This would mean they could effectively steal (or at least create a dispute over) another person's deposit.

For example:

User A sends 1-4 BTC to you.
User B watches your deposit address on blockchain.info.
User B sees User A's deposit, posts on your thread saying to send back to a totally different address.

By restricting payout to input addresses, you guarantee that the person who deposits receives any payouts, and minimize the risk for dispute. An alternative would be private deposit addresses.

I think he means if it's like satoshidice and I would robotishly auto-ship the coins back to sending address if they won. 

if we win tonight, I'll ship coins to whatever hash Luceo wants.  only 4 shares and 1 is to my cousin, and the other 2 are Seals guys, and like I said Luceo gets 'em wherever he wants after I hopefully ship it!

I thought I understood bitcoin, this has me totally boggled.  Care to explain?

First point of confusion:  What is a repayment?

cousin Dave shipped 1 coin on Seals, he gets last share

SOLD OUT

Just one thing: By allowing payments to a public address, you will need to restrict repayments to the input addresses (otherwise anyone can claim to have made a payment). This means people need to steer clear of services like mtgox when paying you as they do not send from input addresses which go back to the user's account.

rec'd / locked / 1 left

Sent 1 BTC.

Please re-pay anything I earn to 1KcraSQRBHjGPrdQFowob7SaxAU2qxNFHh (this is one of the input addresses).

locked / 2 left

ok, 3 are available, I know u wanted in on this 1

hit the hash or the seals chips to lock it.

I'm in for 1 share

Seals chips rec'd

10% of tonight's HORSEament tourney winnings at Orleans will go to Evolutionary  (also I will hit you back on Seals if I cash)

I'll take 1 share Micon gonna send you SWC chips

heading to play the HORSEament at the Orleans tonight.

Date: Tonight 9/23
Time: 7:00 pm PT
buy-in:  $100
Venue:  The Orleans  [ http://static.boydgaming.net/orleanscasino10/media/downloads/PokerRoomDailyTournSchedule_Feb2012.pdf ]
Current MtGox Price: $12.20


To make this easy, I am going to sell 10% shares for 1 bitcoin each.  This means that for 1 BTC or about $12.20 you are going to be entitled to 10% of my tournament winnings, if any.  This also means you are paying appro

I am going to sell up to 4 shares. 

1MALd2BKccYX4uapwtnx1HHcTBziWZ8jSH

first coins locks it up, and you can buy more than 1 share.  I will also accept chips on Seals (1000 chips per share obv)

I am going to use one thread and bump it when I play a tournament and want to sell a piece to the BTC community.  I'll change the title to reflect the status of this thread.

I have been playing professional poker for about a decade, and I also gamble in a +EV manner on a handful of other way.  I have 2 WSOP final tables, 1 in $2,000 buy-in No limit in 2006 and another in $1500 HORSE in 2009.  I play both NL and mixed-games tournaments, something I specialize in.  I play live poker about twice a week now as I spend most my gambling time on SealsWithClubs, usually playing a small tournament or cash mixed games.

When I am running a tourney with shares sold on Bitcointalk, I will always update my twitter regularly with chip counts and the occasional pic / video update for fun.

http://www.twitter.com/bryanmicon

Some live results:

http://www.bluffmagazine.com/players/bryan-micon/19110/player-profile.asp

http://www.pokerpages.com/player-profile/bryan-micon.htm

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=67931

a video of me on ESPN during 2006 main event:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-mBUA-uUDM&feature=related

I will always use this hash for receiving coins for transactions in this thread for max transparency :  

1MALd2BKccYX4uapwtnx1HHcTBziWZ8jSH

Shares are always sold on a "first shipped / first served" basis - meaning that BTC has to hit the hash or the Seals xfer has to be on my screen to lock your share.  

GL ALL!