PATCHED

This glitch will allow you to give cars to a friend one at a time, you will not lose this car yourself.
Works for PS4 and Xbox
Founder: DaddyCoolNL
Video: https://youtu.be/hJPWcqnFDeE (Dutch)
Requirements:

One friend
Receiver: MOC with Personal Vehicle Storage (no workshop)
Receiver: free elegy or street car in the back of the MOC
Giver: a car ready to give
Giver: bullets in his regular pistol
Be in a free-aim session with somebody else to join in a different targeting mode (friend or somebody in a community)

Step by step tutorial:

Receiver: be ready in your free elegy or street car (make sure you have put the street car into the moc once already) in the parking lot in front of the casino parking garage. Also have your moc in the parking lot and make sure you can enter the moc from the back.
Giver: stand in front of the casino entrance, join somebody in a different targeting mode, accept first alert and cancel the second alert.
Giver: join the same person you just tried to join again, so the first alert asking you to join his session comes to the screen quickly, accept first alert and cancel the second alert.
Giver: here you'll need to be quick. Kill yourself using the interaction menu, and the moment your character pulls the trigger, you double-tap the PS button and quickly press x to join, cancel the first alert, and quickly walk into the casino entrance while still in the 'wasted' screen. You should now load outside the casino again without the roads on your mini-map, this means you did it correctly and are now glitched out. If you weren't able to immediately walk in the 'wasted' screen or failed to walk into the entrance in time, try again.
Giver: walk up to your friend in his car and enter in the passenger seat (note: don't walk too far from the casino, if you walk to the bridge over the highway for example, your mini-map will re-appear and you'll no longer be glitched out).
Receiver: drive up to the moc, and press right on the d-pad. Your braking lights should light up and nothing will happen.
Giver: after 3-5 seconds exit the car, and re-enter the car.
Receiver: drive up to the casino parking garage and press 'Parking Garage'. Now press the PS button to go to your home screen and head back to the game, you are now frozen in the car in front of the parking garage.
Giver: wait 45 seconds (no less) and exit the car using triangle.
Receiver: once your friend exited the car, you'll see yourself driving into the parking garage and enter an eternal black loading screen. Now join somebody in a different targeting mode, accept the first alert and cancel the second alert.
Receiver: press options, navigate to the online tab and press 'criminal enterprise starter pack', then back out of the pause menu.
Receiver: you should see yourself in an invisible car under the map, either wait until you're dead or exit the car using triangle.
Receiver: once you spawned back on the map, walk to the back of the moc, but make sure your friend is near the back of the moc as well to get the option to 'Enter With Nearby Friends and Crew'. Press 'Enter Alone'.
Receiver: You're now stuck in another eternal black loading screen, join somebody in a different targeting mode, accept the first alert and cancel the second alert.
Receiver: You are now invisible outside of your moc, walk up the your friend's car and enter the car. You should teleport to the inside of your moc with his car. You have now succesfully received his car.

Some important additional notes:

The giver must create the session
Spawn location must NOT be set on the casino
If you cannot kill yourself anymore on step 4, you can also kill yourself with an RPG, or have your friend kill you.
The car you're receiving will have the identical plates as your friend's car, meaning it is a DIRTY dupe and you should NOT sell it, unless you are able to change the plate into one of your own custom iFruit plates. Selling it while dirty will result in an instant daily sell limit, and not being able to sell cars for a couple of weeks, trying to sell too many dirty cars may result in a dupe detect and money wipe. You can however dupe the received car using a clean duping method, and sell the clean dupe, if you can manage to keep them seperated.
If you don't know if a friend or somebody in a community is in a different targeting mode, you can try to join him through the PS communities or Now Playing tab, then once you've received the first alert join him again. If your screen is still on the first alert screen, he's in the same targeting mode. If your screen is on the second alert screen, he's in a different targeting mode. Do you only have friends in free-aim lobbies? Simply switch to assisted aim and do the glitch from there.
Can't get step 4 to work? Try again and again and again, or head to a new session and try again from there, don't give up. The glitch is not patched.
If something is unclear or not working, please watch the video (despite it being a Dutch video) or ask in the comments of this post. Enjoy.

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Inside Underground NY Poker

I have a ton of stories from my days of dealing in the underground clubs in New York. I now live in Vegas and work here full time in the poker industry. I often get asked by the players here in Vegas to tell some stories of my club days. Maybe poker will find it interesting as well.
This all started in 2006.
Fox's Club - 1.1 A bit of some background about me -- I basically grew up in the poker world. My grandmother was a playedealer decades ago (her boyfriend ran a large club in Queens, NY) and she started teaching me 7 Stud, 5-Card Draw Hi, and NL Hold'Em starting when I was 6 years old. We would play with a cheap Hoyle chipset she had purchased from the local grocery store. Occasionally, I even beat her — I’ll never be sure to this day if she let me win, but I’ll always hold those memories close. Poker was something we always did together and did often. It would be unusual to see my Grandma without a deck of cards on her.
As I got older, my whole family would play together. When I reached middle and high school, I would host multi-table $20-$50 buy-in tournaments at my house and there would be about 40-50 of us at my house playing poker, socializing, eating, and doing what kids do. We were all terrible and had no idea what we were doing, but we were all having fun and little did I know it, but I was getting a taste of what was to come in terms of my career later on in life.
When I hit 16 years old, a friend of mine from high school — Joey — who had gone off to college in Queens at St. John’s had come back home for the summer. He had been introduced to a very large and popular underground club in College Point, NY. At the time, he was making a regular income from playing small stakes MTT’s on Full Tilt instead of having a regular job during college, and naturally found his way into live poker. This was my first introduction to the underground poker world. In addition to playing online with him, I accompanied him and a couple of his college buddies one night to play $1/$3 NL at a live underground club. I was able to play because I had made some substantial money from running and eventually selling my own web hosting business while in high school. My other passion that I had started learning from a very young age was computer programming. I was coding in Visual Basic by 11 years old because a friend of my father’s, who was a software developer, had decided that I had shown some aptitude for the field and took an interest in mentoring me. I was lucky to have been given the opportunity of his time, teachings, books, etc. Anyway, off we went to Fox’s Club — Fox was the connected mob guy who owned the club. The game was protected and everyone knew it. It was a very social place.
If you’ve ever been to an underground club, then you know that the quality of the customer service and experience can vary greatly from game to game. Fox’s game was the creme of the crop, it was absolutely top notch. It ran everyday, night and day.
It was located in a large, multi-story industrial lot which sat right near a main intersection, which meant lots of traffic — a very good thing because the traffic to and from the game just blended in with the usual activity.
When you pulled in, you could park anywhere you wanted out of the tens of dozens of spots. It didn’t matter where you parked anyway — I’ll get to why in a minute. Then, you would walk upstairs to the 2nd story to come stop in front of a giant steel door with a buzzer and several cameras positioned in front.
When you rang the bell, they’d ask you who you were, you’d tell them how and who invited you, and in a minute or two you’d be buzzed in through the first steel door. After entering, you’d come to a second steel door with another camera positioned in front, which only opened from the inside.
When you finally entered the room, it was gorgeous — clean, large, comfortable, and was equipped with everything you wanted in a club. A full-sized kitchen, multiple clean bathrooms (one even had a shower), a lounge area, a high limit room, waitresses, a bunch of large flat screen TV’s, and a smoking room among other things. The first thing you’d notice was that they had 6 high-quality poker tables paired with executive chairs, not including the one in the high-limit room. This club was spacious.
As you walked in, a valet would ask for your keys and he would go fetch your vehicle and park it in an organized fashion amongst the others. You’d then make your way over to the podium and tell the floor which game you wanted to play — they usually had at least several games going — $1/$3, $2/$5, and $5/$10 NL and higher when it ran, but the much higher games were much more private.
Strapped with $1,000 in cash on me, I request a seat in the $1/$3 game and eventually make my way onto the table. The max buy-in was $500, which I opted for because most stacks at the table were deep. It didn’t really matter anyway — this was my first time playing in an underground poker club and I was nervous as hell. I didn’t know how to act, was totally naive to my safety, I was 16 years old and I was clearly “the kid” in the club.
I remember winning one of my first pots, and a mid-30’s Asian guy sitting next to me taps me on the shoulder.
“Aren’t you going to tip the dealer?”
“What do you mean? Are we supposed to do that?”
“Of course, they work on tips. When you win a pot, toss them a buck, if it’s a big pot then maybe a redbird or two.”
“Oh, uh… I see… I’m sorry, I didn’t know…” and I toss the dealer a buck.
Over the course of the summer and playing there a dozen or so times, I began to take notice how much these dealers were making. Back then, in this particular club, dealers were well taken care of and I managed figure out that they were pulling in at least $1,000 per shift depending on their duties and how long they spent in the box. Some guys had multiple roles, would often spend time on the phone with players, some would work the cage area, some would floor other times, etc.
The questioned then dawned upon me — why am I risking my money playing this game, when I could learn how to deal it and be guaranteed to make money without any risk?
That was when I started to become friendly with Big Mike — one of the regular dealers. I wanted to deal and I wanted a job there… How was I going to make this happen? How could I pass up learning how to make $1k a night at a job that looked like it could be a lot of fun?
To be continued…

Fox’s Club — 1.2
Thinking about it now, the thought of a 16 year old kid wanting to learn how to deal poker in an underground club and actually turning out to be good at it… is just plain hilarious. But, I was determined to learn this skill, and even though I was a little naive about it, I made a promise to myself that I was going to study poker and poker dealing.
When you’re that young, the problem is that your brain is not yet fully developed and no matter how mature and intelligent someone of that age can be, the fact remains that they have yet to gain “wisdom” — the kind which can only be acquired through time. I say this because I grossly underestimated the amount of time on the felt it really takes to become a solid, “A”-Dealer. But again, I had drive and determination to learn how to deal.
I became friendly with Big Mike, got his phone number, and would text him whenever I wanted to come down to the club. I let him know that I wanted to learn how to deal and asked him how he learned. He told me that he had went to dealer school. I didn’t know such a thing existed. He wasn’t too enthusiastic about me learning how to deal, he said I was too young and didn’t know the game well enough yet. I came to the conclusion that Big Mike wasn’t going to help me, and sure enough, he never did in that regard. I kept him as a poker contact and would eventually be invited to other games and clubs by him, something that could be really helpful later on.
With Big Mike not wanting to teach me, my plan was to go to Fox’s to play, and when I wasn’t in a hand I was going to study what the dealer was doing — what he did with his hands, how he shuffled, what he said, what he was constantly doing with the chips in his rack? This was how I discovered rake, by the way. I didn’t even know what rake was.
At Fox’s, everybody paid $5 per half when the dealers would make their push. I thought that that was how they were making their money. What I didn’t know was that they were also taking a rake. There wasn’t a gator or dropbox for the rake. It didn’t sit out openly in front of the players as it does in casino card rooms. The dealer would quickly take out chips from the pot and they would go right into the well. Every half, the dealer that was pushing in would replace the well with the one they were carrying.
The first time I saw the rake being taken, I was puzzled by what was happening and didn’t know what was going on. No-one else at the table ever seemed to say anything or even acknowledge it so I figured it must be okay. When I saw Big Mike go into the smoking lounge for his break, I got up from the table and went inside to ask him about it. He then educated me about rake and what it was. I was dumbfounded. This place must be making a sh*tload of money. 10% of the pot up to $25? I started to do the math on all the tables running, the time being taken every half hour, an average pot size for an average rake amount, and came up with an impressive number. Damn, what a lucrative business to be in.
During the time I spent watching the dealer, I picked up lots of little things here and there, but ultimately just watching was not enough. I needed some proper instruction. I also knew I needed to learn how to “deal” the cards the way Big Mike did with that flick of his fingers — not knowing at the time that it was called “pitching the cards”.
All of this information. All of these techniques. There must be some resources and information on poker dealing on the internet, right? I mean, if Big Mike went to a school that teaches how to deal poker, then there must be some info on where to go. I’d later on make a discovery that would make a huge impact on my life.
So, I decided that moving forward, I was going to focus on getting better at the game while I spent my time at Fox’s. Maybe Big Mike was right. Maybe I didn’t know the game well enough yet. Instead of trying to learn how to deal there, I’ll just play the game and try and win as much money as I can.
This didn’t turn out so well, however, as I was not yet a competent player. I had no live experience — I was very easy to read, made the mistake of engaging in table talk and failing at every verbal jousting I took part in, and I hadn’t yet been a real student of the game. I was learning the hard way through trial and error, which of course cost me tons of money.
I didn’t always lose, because I wasn’t an idiot and was intelligent enough to realize that there actually is a skill component to this game. The Asian guy (from Part 1) in his mid 30’s, the one who politely taught me about tipping dealers, turned out to be a pretty cool guy.
His name was Andy. When we first officially met, he asked me about which college I was going to and what major I was studying.
“So, you in college? What are you studying?”
“Actually, I’m still in high school. I haven’t decided yet which school I want to go to. I still have a couple of years left.”
“What? How old are you, buddy?”
“I’m 16, I’ll be 17 after the summer.”
“So you can’t even drive, yet? Is that why you always come by with a friend?”
“Yeah, I’m still saving up for a car. I think I’m gonna buy a used Mazda 6.”
He was curious about where I was getting all of this money I had to play with at the tables. I told him about my computer background and web hosting business. He was impressed and I had earned his respect. He told me that he had initially thought that I was just another one of the college kids that came by to play — money from their parents, or playing with the extra college loan money that was left over and sent out as a check to students who got loans.
We developed a kind of student-teacher relationship. He smoked a ton of cigarettes, and every time he did, I would join him in the smoking lounge and he would tell me his thoughts on how I played certain hands, point out mistakes I made, give me positive reinforcement on things I was doing correctly, pull me off the table when I would start to tilt, and overall just looked out for me. Andy was a very good player as well, judging by the fact that he consistently won and could always give me a logical reason and argument to why I should do things a certain way.
Other people who tried to teach me the game would say things like “You should have raised on the turn”, and when I asked “Why?”, I would always get the same response — “Because you lost the hand”. That made no sense at all to me. That’s not an answer, it doesn’t answer the question at all. That’s just another way of saying that if I was a psychic and could predict the future, the way I could have won the hand was by knowing what the outcome was and making the right play.
Andy would say things like “You should have raised on the turn”, and when I asked, “Why?” He would say things like “Well, why did you decide to call instead of raise? Did you even consider raising at all? Did you consider folding? What did you think he was betting into you with? You had a set of 9’s on a board that had one broadway card and two flush draws”. That was when I realized that I wasn’t even thinking much about what the other guys had, I was just playing my own cards and when I didn’t make hands, I would try and bluff, sometimes successfully and sometimes not so much. I was starting to learn the game from a thinking player’s perspective.
Andy had been playing poker for a long time already and was an underground grinder. After graduating from college with a degree in finance, he got a job at some firm but eventually left to pursue poker. Between his investments and playing poker full time, that was how he made his income. He played in tons of games and clubs all around New York and was what you would call an underground pro.
At the time, if you were a competent player, it was quite easy to make money in those games. There were tons of fish and people who would literally donate money. In the beginning, I was one of them. So were Joey and his college buddies. Joey was a decent online MTT player — skilled enough to consistently cash in small tournaments — but he wasn’t very good at playing cash games. Especially live cash games. He was too easy to read. So was I — absolutely awful at hiding tells, let alone knowing what those tells were.
I remember one particular session at Fox’s where I was running like God. I had turned $500 into nearly $4,000. I was getting super lucky, super quickly. I’ll never forget this session as it was the first time I walked out of Fox’s with a huge wad of cash in my pocket. And it started off with the first hand I played that night.
I always waited to play until I was in the big blind, something Andy advised me to do, as you couldn’t come in for free behind the button, not that I even knew what that was at the time. Forgive my recollection of this hand, it’s rough at best, it was over a decade ago, but it was the first time I saw how brutal poker could be.
There was a raise to $15, a re-raise to $50, a call, another call, and I look down in the big blind at T9ss. I was still superstitious at the time and always played my first hand, no matter what it was. So I called and the original raiser called as well. 5 players.
The flop comes TT9 with two clubs, and I check. There’s a bet of $150, then the next guy jams, the next guy also jams, another all-in, and at this point I remember thinking to myself — holy sh*t — I quickly call, so does the guy in front of me. I then turn my hand over. What does it matter? Everybody is all in, give me the money baby!
Everyone else follows suit, and tables their holdings wondering what the hell is going on here. We’ve got a 5-way all-in, something I’d never seen before — AK of clubs, pocket aces, pocket 9’s, and QJ, which I’m fairly sure was suited.
I’d be lying if I told you what happened after this point. My body was overflowing with adrenaline. The dealer does his work and the next thing I know I have $2.5k in front of me and some really pissed off people sitting next to me.
As the session continues, within the next few orbits I manage to pick up pocket aces and pocket kings, stack two players, and it was at this point that I had around $4,000 in front of me.
Like I said, running like God. Then, it happened.
Thinking I was invincible, I re-raise a guy with 64o. The flop comes A44. The guy bets and I just go all-in, not knowing what else I could do. He then tanks for a minute, and says to me, “You’re really that lucky huh? You got that 4 don’t you?”
I remember just smiling like a teenager who had just lost his virginity.
“I don’t know what to tell you man, but yeah, I do. I have 64”, as I shook my head “yes”.
“I believe you.” And the guy open mucks AK. I show him the 64.
I get shipped the pot, and then Andy says to come join him in the smoking lounge. I didn’t smoke, but my Mother had for years so it didn’t bother me much.
“Why in the hell did you tell that guy what you had? You need to learn how to act composed at the table.”
“I didn’t know what else to do. It didn’t feel right lying to the guy.”
“That’s because you’re a good kid. This is poker, buddy. You can’t ever feel bad about taking someone’s chips, or else you’ll never succeed at this game.”
“Well what should I have done then? What should I have said?”
“For now, the next time that happens, don’t say a word. Just stare at the board until the other player makes a decision. You’re clearly not capable of table talk, yet. If you feel like you have to respond and can’t ignore the other player any longer, then just use my line and then tell him it’s on him.”
“What’s your line?”
“Well, I can’t lose if you fold.”
And I’ll never forget that line. I still use it sometimes to this day. You have to understand that this happened back when you could actually engage your opponent verbally when it was heads up. Now, you can’t discuss the contents of your hand whatsoever. That era has ended and table talk is not what it once was. In my opinion, I firmly believe that this particular change in poker was not a positive one. It made poker really fun and really interesting. It was a large contributor to the social element of the game. And it felt really, really, good when you would successfully talk your opponent into making the move you wanted them to make.
Andy continued smoking his cigarette while telling me I should cash out and go home with a huge win.
“How much more money do you really expect to make? You’re way too deep now in this game where everyone is going to start shoving on you. Trust me, cash out and hang out until your friend is done playing so you can go home.”
“What else am I supposed to do? Isn’t everyone going to get mad that I’m leaving?”
“Who cares? Sit at the table and fold everything except Aces or Kings for the next hour. If you pick up one of those hands, just go all-in. Trust me, you have nothing more to gain and only something to lose if you continue playing. For the next hour, just watch everyone else and how they play and what they showdown. You might learn something.”
And that’s exactly what I did. I folded every hand for the next hour, then cashed out.
While I was hanging out and railing Andy and my friend who I came with, I realized that I needed to buy a poker table and the same type of cards they were using at Fox’s — they used KEM bridge size, jumbo index. Something I had learned about from picking Big Mike’s brain. I figured this would be a perfect time to invest in a real poker table, considering that I just cashed out $4k.
Maybe I could start having cash games at my house with my friends and deal the game to practice? I already hosted tournaments at my house regularly, but never thought about hosting a cash game. Would my friends even want to play a cash game? What stakes would it be? I still need to figure out how I’m going to learn how to deal.
Hmm, I’ve got some thinking to do.
To be continued…
Next: Inside Underground NY Poker #2

Coronavirus COVID-19 Vlaanderen: Start van fase 3 van het afbouwplan vanaf 8 juni

https://crisiscentrum.be/nl/news/start-van-fase-3-van-het-afbouwplan-vanaf-8-juni
Bericht van de Eerste Minister, Sophie Wilmès
Vandaag, woensdag 3 juni, heeft de Nationale Veiligheidsraad uitgebreid met de ministers-presidenten de overgang naar fase 3 van het afbouwplan vanaf 8 juni goedgekeurd. Zoals uit het dagelijkse verslag van de gezondheidsautoriteiten blijkt, zijn de indicatoren van onze gezondheidssituatie bemoedigend. De experts hebben daarom groen licht gegeven voor de start van deze nieuwe fase.
Dit betekent een radicale verandering in de aanpak ten opzichte van de regels die tot nu van kracht waren. Van nu af aan is vrijheid immers de regel en wat niet mag de uitzondering.
De activiteiten die verboden blijven, zullen dat zijn omdat ze ofwel een te nauw contact tussen mensen of massabijeenkomsten met zich meebrengen, ofwel omdat er nog geen protocollen - d.w.z. specifieke regels voor een sector – konden worden bepaald.

Deze nieuwe aanpak moet op twee niveaus worden begrepen. Ten eerste, het individuele gedrag (hoe moet ik me gedragen in het licht van mijn herwonnen vrijheid? ) en ten tweede, het reglementair kader dat van toepassing is op een georganiseerde activiteit (welke protocollen moeten professionals toepassen om een activiteit te organiseren?)

Wat het individuele gedrag betreft, zijn er zes gouden regels:
De hygiënemaatregelen blijven essentieel;
Buitenactiviteiten moeten waar mogelijk de voorkeur krijgen. Waar nodig moeten ruimtes voldoende worden verlucht;
Er moeten extra voorzorgsmaatregelen worden genomen voor mensen die tot een risicogroep behoren. Er wordt een charter opgesteld voor ouderen die vrijwilligerswerk doen om hun wat meer duidelijkheid te geven over de activiteiten die ze veilig kunnen doen;
De veiligheidsafstand blijft gelden, behalve voor mensen binnen hetzelfde gezin, voor kinderen jonger dan 12 jaar onderling en voor mensen met wie er nauwer contact is, d.w.z. de uitgebreide bubbel. Wie de veiligheidsafstand niet kan respecteren, moet een mondmasker dragen;
Het is mogelijk om wekelijks met 10 verschillende personen nauwer contact te hebben, bovenop de gezinsleden (=uitgebreide persoonlijke bubbel). Dit is een individueel recht. Deze 10 personen mogen elke week veranderen;
Georganiseerde sport- en nu ook culturele activiteiten onder begeleiding van een verantwoordelijke zijn beperkt tot 20 personen in juni en tot 50 personen in juli, op voorwaarde dat de veiligheidsafstand worden gerespecteerd.
Groepsbijeenkomsten worden beperkt tot maximaal 10 personen, inclusief kinderen. Dit geldt voor alle bijeenkomsten, ongeacht of ze thuis of buitenshuis plaatsvinden (bijvoorbeeld in het park of op restaurant);
Over het reglementair kader:
Alle georganiseerde activiteiten worden hervat, tenzij de herstart in een andere fase wordt gepland, met protocollen die zowel de gebruikers als het personeel beschermen. Deze protocollen worden bepaald door de bevoegde minister, na advies van de GEES, in overleg met de sector en, in het geval van noord-zuidaangelegenheden, met een interfederale aanpak;
De protocollen zullen tegen 1 juli worden geëvalueerd. Als er voor een subsector geen protocol bestaat, wordt een document online geplaatst met de algemene regels die op zijn minst van toepassing zouden moeten zijn;
Het wordt aangeraden om te telewerken als dat mogelijk is.
Horeca, sport en cultuur zijn de hoofdsectoren waarvoor belangrijke beslissingen zijn genomen.

Horecasector
De sector mag gedeeltelijk heropenen. Speelhallen (bv. casino's), banket- en receptiezalen zullen echter pas op 1 juli opnieuw open mogen. Wat betreft de banket- en receptieruimtes zal dit mogelijk zijn met een maximum van 50 personen, onder dezelfde voorwaarden als de horeca. Nachtclubs mogen nog niet opengaan voor eind augustus, omdat er geen veiligheidsafstand kan worden voorzien.
Naast deze uitzonderingen zullen alle andere horecagelegenheden zoals cafés, bars en restaurants opnieuw opengaan, volgens een zeer nauwkeurig protocol.
De hoofdlijnen van dit protocol zijn onder andere:

Een afstand van 1m50 tussen de tafels;
Maximaal 10 personen per tafel;
Elke klant moet aan zijn eigen tafel blijven zitten;
De obers moeten een masker dragen;
Alle horecagelegenheden mogen tot één uur 's morgens openblijven, net zoals de nachtwinkels.
Culturele sector
Vanaf 8 juni mogen culturele activiteiten zonder publiek worden hervat. Voorstellingen met publiek - inclusief bioscopen - kunnen vanaf 1 juli worden hervat, maar altijd volgens precieze regels met betrekking tot het beheer van het publiek, zoals het respecteren van de veiligheidsafstand in het publiek en maximaal 200 aanwezigen.
De organisatie van de activiteiten moet zodanig worden gepland dat te grote bijeenkomsten, bijvoorbeeld buiten de zaal, worden vermeden.
Wanneer mensen deelnemen aan culturele - maar ook vrijetijdsactiviteiten - is het dragen van een masker te allen tijde aan te bevelen.
Sportieve en nu ook culturele activiteiten die worden georganiseerd en begeleid door een verantwoordelijke zijn beperkt tot 20 personen in juni en 50 personen in juli, met inachtneming van de veiligheidsafstanden.
In deze twee sectoren - maar niet alleen daar - zullen de zeer geleidelijke heropening en de daarmee samenhangende voorwaarden de rendabiliteit bemoeilijken. Op federaal en regionaal niveau werken we, naast de uitbreiding of aanpassing van de generieke maatregelen ter ondersteuning van de economie, momenteel aan een reeks gerichte maatregelen om bepaalde sectoren te helpen.

Sportsector
Vanaf 8 juni kunnen de contactloze sportactiviteiten worden hervat, indoor en outdoor, amateur of professioneel, competitie en training. Sportzalen en fitnessruimtes mogen ook heropenen, mits het protocol in acht wordt genomen.
Maar:
Contactsporten (bv. judo, boksen, voetbal enz.) moeten altijd beperkt blijven tot "contactloze" trainingen;
Wat de sportfaciliteiten betreft, zullen de protocollen ook moeten worden gevolgd. Kleedkamers en douches zullen nog steeds niet toegankelijk zijn;
Zwembaden, sauna's en wellnesscentra moeten in dit stadium gesloten blijven.
Nog wat de sport betreft, is alles vanaf 1 juli weer toegestaan, op voorwaarde dat de protocollen worden nageleefd.
Zowel in de culturele sector als de sportsector zal vanaf 1 juli een zittend publiek van maximaal 200 personen - ongeacht de grootte van de zaal - zijn toegestaan, met inachtneming van de veiligheidsafstanden en altijd met strikte naleving van de protocollen.
Erediensten
Religieuze erediensten of levensbeschouwelijke bijeenkomsten mogen vanaf 8 juni worden hervat, met inachtneming van onder meer de volgende regels:

De veiligheidsafstand moet worden nageleefd met een maximum van 100 personen;
Vanaf juli wordt dit aantal uitgebreid tot 200, naar analogie met de culturele en sportsector;
Rituelen met fysiek contact blijven verboden.
Reizen
Vanaf 8 juni is het mogelijk om in België uitstappen van één of meerdere dagen te doen.
Vanaf 15 juni zal België zijn grenzen openen voor reizen naar en vanuit de Europese Unie, met inbegrip van het Verenigd Koninkrijk en de vier andere Schengenlanden (Zwitserland, Liechtenstein, IJsland en Noorwegen). Elk land beslist echter zelf of het zijn grenzen al dan niet opent. Om de situatie in het land van bestemming te kennen, is het daarom raadzaam de website van Buitenlandse Zaken te raadplegen. De voorwaarden voor reizen buiten Europa moeten nog worden vastgesteld in het licht van de evolutie van de gesprekken op Europees niveau.

Vrije tijd en ontspanning
Vrijetijds- en ontspanningsactiviteiten zijn toegestaan vanaf 8 juni, met uitzondering van conferenties, pretparken en binnenspeeltuinen, die pas vanaf 1 juli mogen worden heropend.

Bijeenkomsten
Culturele en vrijetijdsactiviteiten moeten zodanig worden georganiseerd dat bijeenkomsten worden vermeden. Het dragen van een masker is te allen tijde aan te bevelen.
Bijeenkomsten (bv. kermissen, dorpsfeesten etc.) blijven tot 1 augustus verboden en mogen dan geleidelijk aan weer worden hervat. Grote massa-evenementen zullen daarentegen tot en met 31 augustus verboden blijven, zoals eerder aangekondigd.
Aan het begin van de zomer zal een online evaluatie-instrument beschikbaar worden gesteld voor organisatoren die willen weten of ze een evenement kunnen organiseren en onder welke voorwaarden.

Fases 4 en 5 van onze afbouwstrategie vinden plaats in juli en augustus, als de epidemiologische situatie het toelaat.

feelings of being stuck

hey. im posting this here because idk what else to do, and thought that someone out there could possibly help, or that my story could help someone avoid mistakes i've made
i started playing poker professionally in mid 2017, and for a while it was pretty great. i started out grinding live 1-2 at a local casino while living at home, quickly spun up a roll, and eventually moved to one of the bigger 2-5 NL hubs in the u.s.
my first month there was arguably the worst month of my life. my girlfriend of 4 years had just broken up with me, and that coincided with my biggest career downswing (almost 10k, probably had 55k at start of downswing). dealing with all of these external stressors was not easy for me. I have a history of depression, and all of these things lining up together threw me into one of the deepest holes i've been. there were days (prob less than 5) i spent 20+ hours in bed; only getting up to smoke some weed or find some shit food to eat.
i took some steps to pull myself out of this zone. hired a therapist, regular exercise, attempting to eat healthier, self-help books, etc. all of this, and some run-good on the poker tables, had me back to a fully-functional (and arguably stronger) 2-5 grinder.
i basically god-moded for the next 6 months or so. I prob made 45k with one or two 5-8k downswings thrown in along the way. I'd begun playing 1-2 on ignition (initially for practice/ studying, but then continued bc games were good my hourly there was comparable to my hourly grinding live 2-5) and consequently got my hands on some bitcoin. i was already somewhat familiar with what it was and was generally bullish (still am) so figured i'd hold on to a couple of the fuckers since the roll was so healthy and it seemed like a decent mid-long term investment. well, what fucking timing this turned out to be, as price soared from 4k to rougly 8k by end of may. it was around this time that i think my success began to go to my head a bit. i mean, not that i had done anything particularly grand, but i def had a somewhat constant euphoric buzz going on basically around the clock. I was 25, had over 100k nw, had investments that seemingly were going to be worth millions in the not-so distant future (/s), and worked my dream job in which i was able to get away with whatever the fuck i wanted. "Damn, it feels good to be a gangsta," was like my life theme song, playing wherever i went. is this kind of phenomenon experienced by other pros when upswinging?
it's summer now, and the dreams of shipping a tournament are abundant. i create a ~15k package, and sell about a 1/3 of myself to maintain sanity in case things go poorly (net worth >100k at this point, abi mtt is probably 1100). my lease expires at my current spot, so i'm off to vegas to bluff johnny chan or something.
...or something indeed! i cashed just 1 out of probably 12 tournaments and broke even in cash. it felt not good, but I think i had/have a better understanding as to how big variance is (especially in mtts) relative to most, so I was pretty ok with this. not to mention, btc had topped at 14k, which def made dealing with the negative mtt variance a bit easier.
the highlight of my wsop was day 1 of the main event (didnt initially plan on playing, but I was able to sell 75% and it'd been a dream of mine to play since i was a kid, so fuck it, ill take a shot). my table is a joke. it is unfathomable to me that these types of players both exist AND somehow have $10k to light on fire in a poker tournament. one of my table mates felt the need to heavily exemplify the lack of fucks he gave about this $10k. the dude showed up for the tournament pretty drunk (started at 10am, LOL). first, he has this weird interaction with the dealer where he sits down in seat 5 and dealer tells him he's in the wrong seat, and to move to 6. it takes the guy an abnormal amount of time to understand, but eventually he figures it out and moves over. ok, let's run it. few hands go by and the drunk guy scoops a small pot (probably less than 1k chips and we started with 50k). the seat next to him is unoccupied but there is a stack in front of the seat that is blinding out. as drunk guy scoops his pot, he "accidentally" scoops the chips next to him, in what appeared to either be an extremely slick (/s) attempt to find an early double, or an attempt at a bad joke. imo, it was most likely either a poorly timed joke or the dude was just so fucked up that he just didn't realize what he was doing, but we will never know for sure. either way, jack effel promptly dq'd the guy, which i think was absolutely too harsh. i still regret not jumping to this guy's defense, as i really doubt there were any truly ill intentions behind his actions.
one more quick highlight from my day 1 : i mentioned my table being a dream, and it was, with the exception of one player. a former main event champ, joe mckeehen. i didn't know much about him prior to this except that he was a part of chance's Chip Leader Coaching team, which made me think he was prob a beast. and i was right... the guy undoubtedly had an edge on me (and ofc rest of table) and both played and carried himself extremely well. i played one hand vs him that was noteworthy, particularly because of what he said to me afterwords.
cant remember exact sizing's so bear with me: joe opens hj 2.2x, button call, i call bb with td8h. flop: q67r. i check, joe cbet 1/3 pot, button fold, i call. turn: 4x (i think i could do some leading on this card since i improve to straights and 2p at higher frequency than joe, but who tf am i to just lead into the former champ??) i check, joe bets 2/3. i think x/c and x/r are both fine, but decide on x/r this time. sizing was something where i'd set myself up for 80-90% jam on the river if he called. joe takes a few seconds, and as he's picking up his cards to throw them into the muck, says something like, "i really don't believe you, but i'm not going to call you down. don't do that again, kid." what a thing to fkn say man, absolutely legendary. he folds. i think to myself, "i've bluffed the champ! call me mike mcd mother fkers."
in all seriousness though, he obv did pick up on some sort of live read, but even with whatever that was, i think over-folding a high-variance, bluff-catching spot vs the only other competent player at the table makes a lot of sense given this is day 1 of the main event and our table is a complete and total joke. wp joe, and thank you for the story. a true legened, imo.
anyway.. fast forward to day 3 of the main and i'm out a few hours before making the money. talk about maximum pain, man. i felt i'd basically avoided any real feelings of tilt/ disappointment prior to this despite a pretty brutal summer, but busting the main was a scratch on the surface of the negative emotions/ tilt i'd buried during the bad downswing i had after my initial move away from home.
the roll is still healthy. the price of btc is falling, but my nw is still around 95k. even though i still have plenty of money and am well-rolled for the main game i want to play (1500 cap 5/t), i have this weird psychological block where it feels like i dont have enough. i think i began to feel this more so when i dipped below 100k. it's like my brain has this weird obsession or belief that i need to be over 100 to be complete (i know, sounds insane, but again, im curious if others experience this kinda thing?) somewhat dejected, i head back home to spend a few weeks with the family before i head out to boston to set up a new home-base.
fast forward to now: i've been renting a room at an air bnb for a little over a month. i'm breakeven over my last 700 hours of live poker (about 175 of those are me losing ~15k at mtt's). i've played about 135 hours of 5-t since moving to boston and an stuck about 6k. pretty normal i think. btc price back down to 8k though, so that + life expenses has brought the networth down to about 85k (70k liquid). i know, i know... plenty of money, even for playing 5-t. but holy fuck man, it does not feel that way. i feel like i did a year and a half ago when i first moved to the 2-5 hub and was dealing with downswing + major breakup. it's quite difficult to even get out of bed and take a shower. forget getting my ass down to the casino and actually putting in some volume in the volatility-chamber. it simply doesnt feel possible. it feels especially risky. like i want to avoid even giving myself the chance to book another losing session because i know how much it'd hurt. do other pros deal with shit like this? if so, what kinds of techniques do you use to combat these feelings? is there a way i can trick my brain into thinking more rationally?
idk how i feel about actually posting this shit. i'm pretty self-concision in general. i will say that writing this out has been therapeutic in some way, and i do feel a bit better. maybe tomorrow will try and do a low-volatility online session. going to try to get outside and get some sun while i still can today. enjoy the spew/ wsop main event weirdness

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Spades — 1.10
I had just woken up minutes ago, still not yet home from my first trip to Turning Stone. I had just received an unexpected text from Andy — he said that he wouldn’t be playing at Spades any longer, and to call him as soon as possible. I immediately texted him back.
“What happened? Is everything okay?”
“Are you alone?”
“No, I’m still on my way back from Turning Stone. I’m in the car with my friends.”
“Call me when you’re done.”
An hour or so later, all of my friends have been returned home, except for Theo. We drive to his house and he puts the car into park. I say goodbye, and he makes his way towards his front door, while I hop into my driver’s seat. I take off and instantly give Andy a call.
“Andy, what’s up. I just dropped everyone off. What’s going on?”
“Well, I won’t be playing at Spades anymore. Gonna start playing in Queens again. What I’m about to tell you *has to* stay between us, alright?”
“Of course. What happened? You okay?”
“Yeah, I’m fine, but again, this must stay between us. You’re a good kid and I don’t want to see anything bad happen to you, so I hope you take this piece of advice. You should find a new place to deal. It’s not safe at Spades.”
“What do you mean? Why?”
“How well do you know Matt? Do you guys work together at all?”
“I don’t know him that well. Sometimes he’s working when I deal the tournaments, but for the most part I don’t really know him.”
“Buddy, I’ve known Matt for a long time — you know that. I bailed him out of jail earlier today.”
Andy proceeds to tell me the entire story.
The night before, Matt had been driving home shortly after the game broke at Spades. Unfortunately, he got pulled over while he was riding dirty. Normally, this wouldn’t be a problem in suburban Long Island, however, Andy informed me that Matt also had a drug habit.
When the officer who stopped him approached his window, it was crystal clear that Matt wasn’t sober. The officer, doing his due diligence, was no longer interested in simply issuing a ticket. He gave Matt a breathalyzer test — no alcohol was present. The subsequent sobriety test resulted in a failure, giving the officer probable cause to search Matt’s car.
The cop found a bag of prescription pills, which contained enough to reasonably suspect that they were being sold. In addition to the amount of cash found in Matt’s pocket, something to the tune of a few thousand bucks, the officer reasonably came to the conclusion that Matt was a drug dealer. For all intents and purposes, that’s exactly what Matt appeared to be in this situation. He was about to be arrested for some serious charges — felonies — that could ruin his life.
However, Matt vehemently denied the cop’s allegations of any drugs being sold, and said that he could explain the situation. However, he couldn’t provide a reason as to why he had so much cash on him. He was then arrested and brought down to the precinct for questioning.
During Matt’s interrogation, it became quite obvious to him that he was going to get booked for drug distribution charges. In Suffolk County, Long Island, this is no joke. In most cases, it’ll end with you saying goodbye to your freedom.
At first, and this is from Andy’s account of things, Matt tried lying and said that he was simply playing poker at a home game, which was why he had so much cash on him. He confessed that he had a drug problem, but that he wasn’t a drug dealer. The questioning detective didn’t buy his story.
Matt didn’t have a real job that issued W2’s, so there was no sense in trying to lie about it, and he couldn’t provide a phone number for the host of the alleged home game that he was supposedly coming from — an easy and immediate way to prove his claims to be true. The detective wished Matt good luck in court.
In a final and desperate attempt to try and walk away from his predicament as cleanly as possible, Matt played the only card up his sleeve, and offered the truth about the whole situation.
He told the questioning detective that he wasn’t a drug dealer — he just had a drug problem — again, the only consistent part of his story. He revealed that he was driving around so late and had so much cash on him because he worked for an illegal poker club. The detective regained interest in what Matt had to say.
He ultimately wound up coming clean and answering all of the detective’s questions, some of which had certain stipulations attached to them.
In exchange for providing more information about Spades, Matt was ultimately booked for only a measly DUI — a misdemeanor which often resulted in nothing more than an inconsequential fine and rarely probation, if you had a halfway decent lawyer.
In case you don’t know, there is a massive difference between a DWI and a DUI in the county of Suffolk. Judges are incredibly harsh on people who drink and drive, even first time offenders. DUI’s on the hand, which explicitly define a difference between alcohol versus drugs, are not looked upon the same way in the eyes of the judicial system.
In Matt’s case, the detective made sure not to book him with any illegal drug allegations. This meant that a lawyer could easily provide a story of innocence to a judge, that Matt had simply taken a drive to the convenience store, after taking some sleeping medication. The result of this situation would undoubtedly be a measly fine and an ACOD — adjournment in contemplation of dismissal.
In other words, stay out of trouble for a year and all of your charges will be dismissed. Needless to say, a good lawyer is always worth the cost.
Matt spent the rest of the night in the precinct’s holding cell, and was brought to court later on in the morning. Not yet having hired a lawyer, the judge presiding over Matt’s case surprisingly did not grant him OR, short for “Own Recognizance”, which means you get to walk out of the courthouse by simply legally promising to appear in court at a later date.
Judges grant OR depending on a number of factors. Matt didn’t have an existing criminal record, however, he also didn’t have any ties to the community, a history of meaningful employment, or a lawyer to essentially vouch for him, and as a result, the judge set bail on Matt to the amount of $5,000.
This meant that he would be held in the county jail until his designated court date, unless he could pay his own bail with only the cash that he had on him at the time of his arrest.
Matt didn’t actually live in Long Island, he resided in Queens, which meant that he didn’t know anybody in the area who could post his bail for him. At the time your bail is set by the judge, you can usually walk out of there the same day, as long as you are able to have someone post your bail before the court’s end of day time — usually 5PM.
If you can’t get someone to post your bail in time, your situation will become much more complicated. You will be sent to the county jail where you will be searched, stripped of all your clothes, issued a prisoner’s uniform, and assigned either a cell or pod. You’ll stay there until either your court date arrives, or someone posts your bail for you. Nothing about this is process is expedient, whatsoever.
Not wanting to spend any length of time in jail, Matt decided to call the only person he knew who would be in Long Island and also have access to at least $5,000 in cash — that would be Andy.
“So, I bailed him out, which funny enough, left him in debt to me, yet again, for $2k. Although, I made it clear I wasn’t bailing his ass out if he couldn’t immediately pay me back.”
“Holy ****, man. What happened to his car, did the cops impound it?”
“No, actually. They left it on the grass, on the side of the state parkway.”
“How’d you find all of this out? Why would Matt tell you any of this, I don’t get it. Couldn’t he just have told you that he got arrested for a DUI?”
“Absolutely, but then I would wonder why he had to suddenly quit working at Spades, immediately after bailing him out of jail. He couldn’t take the risk of me asking questions.”
“Why would he have to do that? What’s that got to do with anything?”
“It’s too big of a liability for him, now. Buddy, don’t you get it? It’s a 100% chance at this point. An investigation on the club will be conducted, if one wasn’t already being done, which would surprise me if that were the case. It’s only a matter of time now before the cops come in and shut the place down. If that happens when Matt is there, he’ll be arrested.”
“I already know that dealing is illegal. The cops let dealers go, you even said so yourself. You don’t remember? The first time I ever met you, after I told you how old I was — you asked me if I knew that it was illegal to run a game. When I answered “no”, you literally gave me a checklist of things to do, in case I ever found myself in a raid.”
“I remember, and yes, cops *usually* let the dealers go. However, if anything should happen at Spades, it’ll probably be after Matt gets a sentence on his court case. I’ll bet you 10-to-1 for any amount, that he gets at the absolute worst, sentenced to probation. If he gets arrested, it will absolutely end with him getting a jail sentence.”
“Oh.”
“Yeah, buddy. There are a ton of other clubs, all over, where he can find another job. And it would be in his best interest to not stick around, especially after narc’ing to the cops. That’s why I’m telling you all of this — find another job, I don’t wanna see you get arrested. You never know, some cop might want to teach you a lesson to stay out of trouble, because you’re so young and caught up in all of this. It wouldn’t surprise me, at all.”
“Can you help me get a dealing job at another club?”
“Yeah, no problem, but it’ll be in Queens. I’ll see what I can do and get back to you. There’s no way I could get you into Fox’s — not yet, anyway. You’ve gotten great at dealing tournaments, but you don’t have enough experience dealing cash.”
“I know. Well, **** man. My mind is blown. I was expecting you to tell me something like you had a disagreement with Vinny, or you wanted to renegotiate your agreement with Gary, or… something like that. Nothing like this.”
“Yeah, well, I wouldn’t have told you at all, but… well, you know how I am. There aren’t too many people in the poker community who I actually respect. You’re a smart kid, don’t **** up your future.”
“Well, thanks man. I appreciate you looking out. Please let me know, and get back to me as soon as you can, if you find another place where I can deal.”
“I will. And buddy, one last thing. If you tell anyone about this conversation, I’ll never speak to you again. I trust you. Don’t let me down.” — he says jokingly, yet with authority, in a rather stern tone of voice.
“What conversation?”
“Perfect. Later, buddy.”
I end the phone call, closing my Nokia 6126 flip phone. I begin to think, weighing out my options and trying to come to a decision, in order to formulate some type of plan.
If you were to ask people who know me well, to describe me in one word, the obvious answer would be — cunning. I’ve always considered that to be one of my strengths, to be frank, it has allowed me to capitalize on many of the opportunities that have come my way. I’m an honest person, generally forthcoming when it’s paramount, and take comfort in believing that people are generally good-natured.
Sometimes, the smartest thing to do is to tell people what they want to hear. As Canada Bill Jones once said, “It’s immoral to let a sucker keep his money.” In my paradigm of the world, deceiving someone isn’t even remotely the same as intentionally withholding information or being purposefully vague. Come to think of it, that might be what makes me a decent poker player.
Taking everything Andy had just told me into consideration, I came to a final decision. I was going to continue dealing at Spades, regardless of if he could get me another dealing job somewhere else. If he were to ask me if I had quit, I would respond by saying something like, “Do I look that dumb?”
Dealing at Spades was consistent, lucrative, and simply just too close to where I lived to give up. I did, however, decide to put an end to my ignorance about what I did to make money — cold, hard cash to be exact, that I could earn pretty much anywhere I could find a poker game. A realization that led to my deep appreciation for unmistakably skilled dealers, and floors who possessed vast, intricate knowledge about the rules and procedures of the game.
I did some research on the legality of poker in New York — I wanted to be certain of any and all legal consequences that were attached to running a game. I scoured the internet for everything I could find in order to educate myself. I even had a serious conversation with Jennifer’s father, a successful lawyer, who made a few personal calls and got me in touch with a colleague of his. That was how I met Rich.
Rich was a young, yet successful criminal attorney who practiced law in New York City. He was in his late 30’s and always wore an expensive suit — a bit of a hefty guy, prominently intelligent, articulate, and was way better at poker than I was. He was on Andy’s level, without question. When I first met him, one of the first things he told me about himself was that he was able to pay his bills, shortly after graduating law school, by playing in underground clubs.
I know, it’s incredibly cliche. However, back in 2007, if a reg in a Manhattan-based club was a lawyer in their mid to late 30’s, it would actually be surprising to find out that they *didn’t* pay their law school tuition, student loans, or bills by playing poker. In other words, back then, any winning reg that practiced law and was of the right age, most likely adhered to the stereotype. You’d be surprised to know how many young law students were inspired by the movie Rounders.
Rich and I would later on become poker buddies, and play in a ton of different games together. More relevantly, he was someone who would always show up and play in a new game to help me out — something that facilitated the acquisition of many of my dealing jobs.
No pun intended, Rich had money and played stakes as high as $25/$50 NL regularly. He played in bigger games actually, but, was only comfortable playing up to $25/$50 in private or underground games. For him, anything bigger required playing in a casino.
My first conversation with Rich would take place over the phone. Jennifer’s father set everything up and made it *very* clear to call him on a specific date, at a very specific time. I would be getting free legal advice, as a favor, and I was not to waste this man’s time.
“Hello, this is Rich. Is this Julius?”
“Yes, Hi. Thank you for taking my call, I really appreciate your time. I won’t take up too much of it.”
“Not a problem, whatsoever. I’ve been informed that you are looking for legal advisement in the scope of poker games. Is that correct?”
“Yeah. To be clear, these poker games are not friendly home games. They are ran as businesses and located in commercial areas.”
“I see. Are you a player?”
“Well, yeah. But, I’m also a dealer. I make money in the form of tips, from dealing the game. The players who win a hand will usually give me a few dollars after every hand. And — ”
“Julius, let me stop you right there. Are you familiar with the Mayfair Club?”
“Of course.”
“I used to play there regularly. You’re preaching to the choir. I’m well aware of how these games operate, and fortunately for you, also experienced in the legal affairs that can manifest from them.”
“Wow, a real life one-outer. What are the odds? So then, can you tell me what kind of consequences I could face from dealing?”
“Do you have a criminal record?”
“No, I’ve never been in trouble with the law before. I’ll be 18 very soon, if that means anything.”
“Pardon me, you’re 17 years old?”
“Yes, sir.” — I tell him about my family, my grandmother, hosting tournaments at my house, essentially rationalizing why my age is not a big deal.
“Interesting. How long have you been dealing?”
“Not too long. Less than a year, but I don’t see myself slowing down anytime soon.”
“I see. Where do you deal?”
“At a club called Spades in Long Island. I deal the tournaments, three times per week.”
“Spades? No kidding. I know all about Spades. I play there whenever I visit my parents on the island. As you put it, what are the odds?”
“Yeah, well, a friend of mine who plays for a living is trying to get me another dealing job in Queens. I feel like I might be putting myself at more of a risk, that’s why I needed to talk to you.”
“I understand. Well, let me educate you about the law. In the state of New York, it is completely legal to play poker. You and I could set up a table in the middle of Times Square and play heads up. Inherently, playing poker isn’t the issue. The concern arises when someone starts profiting off of the game by taking rake. That individual is the one who is breaking the law, and can be charged with the promotion of gambling to various degrees, all of which can result in different consequences. It’s important that I point out that keeping a credit book is also illegal, in which you can be charged with the possession of gambling records. You don’t run the floor at all, do you?”
“No, not yet.”
“Not yet. I admire your ambition. Well, that’s a good thing. That means your legal risk is minimal.”
“So then, I’m not breaking the law because I don’t get any of the rake, right?”
“No, not exactly. The legal verbiage used, in the New York State Penal Code, to describe what actually constitutes the promotion of gambling is incredibly vague. However, legal precedents have been established that demonstrate that the court is more than willing to charge you with a crime, even if you never see the literal “profits” of the game. It’s uncommon, but it can certainly happen. For example, if the landlord of a rental property that houses a game was aware that it was being used for illegal gambling activity, they would certainly be in violation of the law. Even if the landlord only collected rent from their tenant, it would still be considered as profiting from the game. It’s very difficult to prove, but nevertheless still illegal.”
“I gotcha. So, receiving tips from the players is illegal and puts me at risk.”
“Correct. To be exact, it puts you at risk of being charged with the promotion of gambling in the second degree, a misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of up to one year in jail. It’s worth mentioning that the law doesn’t care if you’re a first time offender, or if you have no existing criminal record — anyone who gets charged can receive that sentence. In reality, it’s *extremely* rare to receive a jail sentence for that charge, but it’s still possible. I’m not trying to scare you, however, I wouldn’t be doing my job if I were to leave anything unclear.”
“Wow. How often do people go to jail for this?”
“Almost never. As I said, it’s extremely rare. The police will usually let the dealers go free, if that is, in fact, the complete extent of their involvement. What usually happens, if you even make it to this stage of the judicial system, is that you’ll receive a fine and be on your way. Even repeat offenders usually just get another fine. If you receive a cut of the rake, but are caught dealing at the time of your arrest, then it’s a different story. I’m not going to go over that scenario, because you told me that you don’t get any of the rake, correct?”
“Right. Okay, then. So, to be clear — at the absolute worst, I could go to jail for a year.”
“Yes, at the absolute worst. However, I can’t imagine a situation that ends with someone like you going to jail for this. You’re a minor, you have a clean record, and I suspect that the police would just let you go and call your parents, rather than arresting you. I’m just speculating about that, to be clear. Even if you were to get arrested, I’m all but certain that the police would still let you go. Any decent attorney could demonstrate that you’re a minor being used as a tool, by a conniving adult who is taking advantage of you.”
“Are you trying to say that I’m a victim?”
“I’m saying that that’s the way you would be seen in the eyes of the court, which is why you’ll most likely be let go, should you even get arrested.”
“Ah, okay. I see. Well, Rich, I can’t thank you enough for taking the time to help me. You’ve given me some peace of mind. I really appreciate it.”
“Not a problem, Julius. I would have told you all of this at the table, had you been my dealer.”
“Oh, you still play?”
“Absolutely. Currently, twice a week in Midtown. Why don’t you take down my personal cell number? If you actually find yourself in need of a lawyer for anything poker related, please don’t hesitate to call me.”
“Awesome. Thanks, Rich. Before I let you go, do you play online?”
“To be completely candid, I actually have Full Tilt running on my laptop, as we speak. I’ll usually sit at a couple of tables while I eat my lunch. Nothing serious.”
“You’re joking, right?”
“Not in the slightest.”
The conversation went on for a while longer. We talked more about poker, the underground community, and exchanged Full Tilt usernames. The conversation ended with Rich asking me if I could bring him to Spades, the next time he was on the island. The club was in a different location when he had last come around to play.
Rich actually did have Full Tilt opened in the background during our conversation. He had arranged for me to call him during his lunch break, which was when he would keep a few tables open, and play only if he happened to pick up Aces or Kings.
Now that I was well informed about the legal risks I was taking, I felt very confident about sticking to my decision. I was sure now, I wasn’t going to give up my job at Spades.
Almost a month later at the club, on a warm, weekday evening, I was sitting in a cash game during the break of the tournament. It was remarkably busy that night, and there were a lot of new faces playing. Every week was busier than the last.
When I had arrived at the club to setup, Vinny had asked me if I would be okay with getting bought into the cash game instead of working. He explained that he needed someone to deal in order to work off a debt that they owed. I told him it was fine — I’d get to take a night off while freerolling in a cash game.
Shortly after the break ended, I hear Vinny yelling at the entire room.
“HEY! YO! WHO IS THAT GUY HOLDING THE DOOR OPEN ON THE SECURITY MONITORS? LOOK! DOES ANYBODY HERE KNOW WHO THAT IS?” — pointing to the flatscreen that displayed the security camera feeds.
All of the players were looking around at each other, but nobody answered.
“****!”
Vinny makes a bolt for the steel door, closes it behind him, and begins running down the stairs to stop this unknown guy from holding the door open any longer.
The entire room is watching this happen in live action, on the security monitor. Each of the four sections on the screen displayed a feed from a different camera.
Just as Vinny reached the bottom of the stairs, a line of a dozen or so SWAT officers appears on the bottom left section of the monitor. The officer at the front of the line is carrying a bulletproof shield, they all have helmets on, and it’s clear that they are well-prepared for action.
We all watch as Vinny collides into the SWAT team, face first, only to get MOWED down by the entire line. He got pummeled — it looked painful.
SWAT makes its way up the stairs and over to the steel door.
*BOOM* — A loud bang is coming from the steel door, as a huge dent appears simultaneously.
*BOOM* — The door becomes bent in half now.
*BOOM* — The steel door violently swings open, and pieces of the wall fly off into the air.
About 12 or so SWAT officers flow into the club. As the sound of their boots hitting the wood floor fills the silence of the room, they begin to draw their rifles on each table, making sure that everybody is surrounded.
“NOBODY ****ING MOVE! PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR! DO IT NOW!”

To be continued…

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Rumnchess's Guide to Live Poker. A.K.A Alex Livingston Main Event FT 2019

This is taken from his guide on the forum. Highly recommend for anyone who's new to live/casino poker. He and the other 2 players at this year Main Event Final Table are the ambassador that we need to make poker fun again.

I'm crossposting this from the HUNL forum, but I wrote a brief summary of live poker; some of you may find it interesting and/or (in)accurate.
Rumnchess's Guide to Live Poker
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART VIII - IntroductionPART XI - Attitude & EtiquettePART XIII - General StrategyPART XV - Bankroll Guidelines (an extremely short section)PART XVII - Player Profiles (quite long by contrast)PART XXIII - Conclusion
PART VIII: Introduction
Live poker is my bread and butter. It has been one of my favorite pasttimes for the last five years of my life, and will always remain so. Along with golf, fine dining, and women, live poker constitutes one of the four core pillars of my life. Over the past few months, I have experienced a period of extraordinarily erratic, and for the most part tumultuous, results in online poker. The advent of heads up superturbos has been particularly disruptive to my confidence, state of mind, and bankroll. Nonetheless, my live results have remained consistently good. I consider live poker my best form of poker, not only relative to the respective fields, but in absolute level of skill. Perhaps just as important as my results, I love everything that live poker has to offer: easily attainable food and beverages, chip shuffling tricks, and an incredibly social and lively atmosphere. Through live poker I have attained an internship with a day trading firm in New York, and free business class flights for the next year. The opportunities for conversation and networking are plentiful, and the live poker world encompasses a fascinating crossection of society. Rarely do such a diverse group of individuals come together. Everyone from min-buying truck drivers to lawyers to wealthy Middle East businessmen can be found at the poker table. To my knowledge, the plethora of people you meet in a cardroom have only one thing in common: they are all notoriously poor players.
PART XI: Attitude & Etiquette
It is extremely important to approach a casino poker game with the correct attitude. Often I see online players who are new to live cardrooms walk into a game with an attitude that is not only harmful to themselves, but to the overall quality of the game. Berating poor card players is not only disrespectful, but is extremely harmful to your bottom line. It is imperative to treat your opponents with respect, and in particular, you should often make an effort to befriend the poor players. Of course if a guy at the table is acting like a complete *******, I will make no effort to be friendly towards him, but at the same time, I will typically avoid being rude towards him, unless absolutely necessary. It is important, however, to make a distinction between your conduct as a person and your conduct as a competitor.
Conduct as a person: Your conduct as a person is the way you act in conversation, your demeanor towards others, and also the way you respect the ettiqute of the game. If I see somebody slow roll another player or try to angleshoot, in my eyes this speaks towards their character as a person, and not their character as a card player or a competitor. There are some exceptions: sometimes a guy who is clearly a novice will take a long time to roll his hand on the river, or make a string bet. Here he is just inexperienced and unfamiliar with the code of the game. It should be fairly obvious to you who is simply new to the sport, and who is deliberately trying to take advantage of their opponents by use of non-poker tactics.
Conduct as a competitor: While I am extremely friendly to my opponents in conversation, etc., I am a ruthless beast as a poker player. If I think a guy wants to avoid playing big pots, I will relentlessly three-bet him in position. Sometimes I will reraise him on each of his first three opens while we are both at the table. This often frustrates and even angers your opponents, but its completely within the ettiquette of the game, and says nothing about your character as a person. Ideally, I want my opponents to like me as a person, but fear me, or dislike me as a card player.
Etiquette:

If the dealer asks you to go to the cage to buy your chips, comply. Every card room has a different process (and in most you can buy chips right at the table), and the last thing you want to do is get off to a bad start with the dealer. Bad karma.2. If a dealer makes a ruling that you disagree with in a hand that you are involved in, do not be silent. Ask to speak to a supervisor, and explain your case clearly and concisely. Be as polite as possible, but be firm.3. Always make your big chips visible. Nothing irks me more than when I think a guy has a $500 stack and he is hiding a tower of black chips behind his red chips.4. String betting is not allowed in any casino I’ve been to. Either announce the amount of your bet or raise, or make sure you bet in one clear motion.5. Tip the dealers when you win a pot of any decent size. My rule of thumb would be that a tip is not necessary for a pot of $40 or less, but for anything beyond that $1 will suffice. I typically tip $2 when I win a pot of $400 or more, and $5 when I win a really huge pot.6. Tip the cocktail waitress $1 when you get a drink.

PART XIII: General Strategy
Before I get into specific player types, I’ll list of general adjustments to make when transitioning from internet poker to the live arena.

Raise bigger preflop. You can get away with raising to 5x or 6x (sometimes even more, depending on the table), because people will call you with the same or greater frequency that they would call a 3x raise online.2. 3bet less frequently. Your edge on the table should be so big that you want to play large pots with deep stack to pot ratios. You also typically want to keep the bigger fish in the pot. Obviously if you are playing at a table of loose fish who will call very wide, it is okay to three bet a reasonably wide value range, but generally, I try to avoid 3betting trash, except against the nitty guys who want to avoid playing big pots.3. Overbet more often. Live players are notoriously unaware of the size of the pot, and of the correct sizings of bets in relation to the size of the pot. A player will typically think more about the actual dollar amount you’re betting than the amount relative to the pot. You will often see opponents make absurd bets like $50 into a $500 pot. As a good player, born and bred on the internet, you should be able to control the size of the pot and determine the correct betting amount in a given situation. Do not be afraid to bet $600 into $400 if you have a big hand, believe your opponent to be reasonably strong, and perceive him as the type who doesn’t care too much about money.4. Play suited junk. As heads up players, most of you should feel in your element here. I advocate playing hands like K4s and Q7s in a live game, particularly if the pots are multi-way. Stacks tend to be deeper in a live game, so your implied odds are greater. Most pots in a live game will be multiway, with poor players who allow you to dictate the size of the pot post flop. Flushes and straights are like jackpots in a live game.

Part XV: Bankroll Guidelines:
I tend to not worry too much about my bankroll because I consider my winrate to be extremely high in these games, and am just a general degenerate. But in general, you need far fewer buy ins to be properly rolled for a live game than you would online. I like to buy into a live game for 200 bbs, and I think that having a roll of 10 such buy ins would be plenty. Keep in mind you are only one tabling, and seeing far fewer hands. Not only that but your winrate per hand should be at least triple what it would be online. $10,000 should be plenty to play 2/5 live.
PART XVII: Player Profiles
It would be extremely time consuming to identify and describe each of the many different player types you will encounter at the poker tables. Therefore, I have chosen five different player profiles that I believe will provide a solid framework for the type of creatures we are dealing with. In parentheses, I’ll indicate that player’s corresponding play style.
The Businessman’s Son (LAG)
Description: Usually Lebanese or Middle Eastern (though they can be Greek, or from other parts of the world), the businessman’s son is a party animal with a seemingly limitless budget. Typically single, under the age of thirty, and comes with an air of sheer and utter lack of responsibility.
Plumage: Designer shirts, designer jeans, expensive jewelry, crocodile shoes.
Poker Style / How to Adjust: The BMS is not afraid to put money in the pot. He comes to play, and he doesn’t like folding. Not only that, but he is almost always accompanied by a couple of cronies, and is sure to try to impress them by showing bluffs, scooping large pots, and being the center of action and attention. As such, the BMS is extremely loose both preflop and post flop, and will often employ tactics such as large unnecessary overbets, merely designed to display his true indifference to money.
3bet a reasonably wide value range vs. this player, but never 3bet as a bluff. Don’t worry if your image is rock tight, you will still get action when you 3bet AA vs. this player. BMS’s have a fold to 3bet of about 1.8%, a decision they usually only make when they are receiving an important phone call on their blackberry. If you have a strong hand, and perceive the BMS to be weak, it can often be correct to trap this player. Even a BMS will sometimes throw away their total air to a flop check/raise, but they will rarely slow down if you check/call. While you will get action from the BMS regardless, it can be helpful to build up a slightly looser image, perhaps even attacking them early, as they will develop a need to personally show you up in the future. It is considered advantageous to show a BMS a bluff for this reason.
Old Man Coffee (TP)
Description: If you never play poker between the hours of 7AM and 8PM, don’t bother looking for old man coffee; he’s at his home, likely sleeping. Usually between the ages of 55 and 90, old man coffee shows up to his local poker game on a strict routine. Some OMC’s are daily grinders, others only show up on Tuesday. But every OMC has a strict poker schedule that he follows and incorporates into his weekly routine. The OMC arrives looking fresh and ready for action. He quietly sits into his favorite seat, pulls out a newspaper, and orders a coffee, black. He rarely displays much emotion, and avoids conversation, unless it is about a violation of the rules, in which case he leaps into action and displays his authority on the matter. Every dealer and supervisor in the casino is on a first name basis with the OMC.
Plumage: Weathered flannel shirts, warn out khakis, bland sweaters, goofy straw hats (more successful OMCs, such as Dan Harrington, have even been spotted with baseball caps)
Poker Style / How to Adjust: The OMC is completely positionally unaware and completely unaware of his opponents. He knows that KJ is a limping hand, so he limps it under the gun, and he limps it on the button. OMC’s generally play tight, and when they do raise (even on the button), you can be sure it’s one of seven possible hands (AA,KK,QQ,JJ,TT,AK,AQ). While Some OMC’s protest raising AQ and TT, most have come to understand that these are acceptable raises in today’s poker environment. Postflop, an OMC will rarely slowplay a big hand, and will often even lead into a multiway field when he flops a set. If an OMC comes out firing big, back off. If he comes out firing small, this is often representative of a middling made hand like middle pair or top pair, weak kicker. It’s often a good time to try to get the OMC off his hand. OMC’s pride themselves on being able to fold hands - they consider it a skill they have honed through decades of poker experience. For this reason, you should almost always try to make an OMC fold his hand by the river if you have reason to believe he is not very strong.
OMCs are weak prey that a professional poker player can eat up for consistent small gains. While you will rarely win large pots form an OMC, you can win many small ones. OMCs are easy to manipulate by simply altering your bet sizing. Often you will arrive at the river in a $180 pot vs. an OMC. You know from experience, that he has top pair, weak kicker here. You also know that he will begrudgingly call a $100 bet, and you know that he will fold to a $150 bet. It’s very simple: bet $100 when you have a hand that wants to be called, and bet $150 when you are bluffing. It sounds too good to be true, but with the OMC, that is the beauty of his game. His decisions are mechanical and predictable. Even if he were perceptive enough to alter his decisions based on his opponent type, he is too stubborn. Raised by a strict father in a household where rules were rules, the OMC was never given enough freedom to actively develop an imagination or any sort of creative thought of his own.
The Middle Aged Guy With Everything To Prove (A mix)
Description: Often from New Jersey, the MAGWEP owns a small business, and he can’t wait to tell everyone around him about its success. In reality, MAGWEPs almost always earn between 35 and 100k per year. The MAGWEP is happily married, as you can see by obnoxiously large wedding band displayed around his ring finger. The MAGWEP loves to talk strategy; rather, the MAGWEP loves to tell you how you misplayed a hand. When he gets sucked out on, the MAGWEP always lets out some sort of verbal declaration, and then often bangs the table and gives the dealer some sort of dirty look. MAGWEPs cannot stand young internet poker players; they are subconsciously aware of their own inferiority in skill to these players, and are threatened by the seemingly reckless attitudes of their competitors. When a young internet player sits down at a poker table, a look of concern appears very briefly on the face of a MAGWEP, but not long enough for anybody to notice. This look will disappear quickly, and the MAGWEP will refer to the internet player as “kid” for the rest of the session, announcing his dominance. MAGWEPs always appear to be more interested in sports than they really are (they are interested, but not obsessed, as they try to convey), and often try to converse with the other players about the table about the future of their football team. Generally, but not always, it could be said that MAGWEP’s have some form of need to assert their masculinity, which can often be attributed to physical deficiencies in certain areas.
Plumage: Working man’s jeans, sweatshirts (often emblazoned with the logo of their son’s university), baseball caps.
Poker Style / How to Adjust: MAGWEP’s can range from being reasonably tight to quite loose, but they are almost always aggressive. They understand the basic theory that raising is better than limping in, and have incorporated it into their game. They are even somewhat positionally aware, and would do things like raise 76s on the button, something an OMC would never dream of doing. MAGWEPs tend to get waaaaaaaay too attached to premium starting hands, and are often even guilty of overplaying AK on whiffed flops. Flop a set when a MAGWEP has aces, and the money is all yours, no matter what.
MAGWEPs give away several very obvious tells. The most noticeable one is when a MAGWEP is involved in a hand, and he has check/called a bet on the flop, and then the turn falls. The MAGWEP will look his opponent right in the eyes, and then he will check the table so viciously that it might even startle some of the other players. When the MAGWEP does this, you can be damn sure that he has a marginal to strong, but not super strong, made hand. Occasionally he will have a semi-strong draw in this spot too. The MAGWEP is essentially trying to intimidate his opponent into keeping the pot small by checking behind. He feels that his eye contact and intense slamming of the felt will do so. Sometimes it can be difficult to decide whether or not to continue with a bluff in spots like these. On the one hand, the MAGWEP doesn’t want to fold, but on the other hand, he knows that you know that he is pretending to be committed to showing his hand down, so he may feel that you won’t bluff him here (the MAGWEP does have some poker smarts). My advice would be go with recent history: if you have a crazy animal image, now would be a good spot to cut your losses, but if you’ve been reasonably tight thus far, try to take it away from him.
The Internet Kid (LAG/TAG)
Description: While you will find “internet kids” of all descriptions playing live poker from time to time, the most common one I see is the 1-2 NL grinder. The kind of guy that plays 6-8 tables 15-20 hours a week online, and, when he sits in a live game, thinks he is God’s gift to poker. Often wearing a backwards hat and a smug grin. Typically enters the casino with two or three of his buddies, one of whom is almost certainly a novice poker player. While generally congenial and easy going, the internet kid can get extremely defensive when his poker skills are brought into question.
Plumage: Jeans, polo shirts, Birkenstocks, hooded sweatshirts, watches in the $100-500 price range, sometimes sunglasses.
Poker Style / How to Adjust: The IK tends to be tight aggressive, while some more brazen varieties are loose aggressive. He is positionally aware and willing to mix up his game and play creatively. While the IK will make quite a bit of money from the fish in the game, an experienced and aware opponent can profit quite nicely from the IK by putting him in spots that he is uncomfortable. If you are seated to the left of an IK, both flat and 3bet him relentlessly, and establish your presence as table captain. You want to be the one playing multiway pots against fish, and when he opens the pot, he cuts into your win rate. Figure out what kind of IK he is: some will buy in for 50 or 80 big blinds and play a scared money style, others are overly bold and bluff happy. Focus much of your people reading skills on figuring out exactly how the IK plays (it will be incredibly obvious to obtain this information on the other players at the table). Also try to figure out how the IK perceives you: unlike the other player types, the IK will actually be capable of adjusting his play based on your play and your dynamic with him. Do everything you can to take the IK out of his comfort zone: show him bluffs, own him with overbets for value, etc. etc.
Keep in mind that some more inexperienced IKs can actually be good opponents to have at the table: they will play a straightforward style, and their ranges will be very obvious. Study the IK at great length, and even go out of your way to make eye contact when you get involved in pots with him - this will often make him uneasy and you will be able to pick up physical tells. Remember, the IK is used to hiding behind a computer screen, and is not necessarily socially adjusted or in solid control of his emotions and body language.
The Friendly Whale (LP)
Description: We save the best for last. The Friendly Whale is an icon in any live poker game - there’s almost certainly sure to be at least one at every table. Some of my best friends in the poker world are friendly whales, and most are between the ages of forty and fifty-five. Not only do FWs consistently give me large sums of money, they also tend to be accomplished, interesting, and conversational people. And the best part about them is that they don’t care when they lose, so there are no hard feelings, or awkward moments when your hour long conversation is interrupted only to have you win $1,000 off them. Friendly whales come in many shapes and sizes, but tend to be middle aged businessmen with successful business ventures or other forms of employment. Despite being the poorest card player I have profiled, the FW is arguably the most life successful type, and is the envy of MAGWEPs worldwide.
Plumage: Business casual: dress shoes, khakis and casual/dress shirts. More conservative FWs may sport a blazer or slacks.
Poker Style / How to Adjust: FWs are the loose passive fish that poker players dream of. Recreational players who enjoy the thrill of the game, FWs rarely miss a flop with any two cards that have even the remotest of similarities to each other. The beauty of the FW is that he is eager and willing to call large bets, but will rarely bet or raise himself without an extremely powerful hand. It is therefore extremely easy to bet/fold extremely strong hands on the river against an FW, as he may well call you with fourth pair but would be unlikely to raise you without the nuts. Value bet, value bet, value bet. Often you can get three streets of value out of 2nd pair, top kicker vs. an FW. If you have a huge hand, consider overbetting for value, and also consider incorporating some overbet bluffs into your arsenal (even an FW can fold a hand to significant pressure, but try to feel the situation out and use this move sparingly). If an FW is in the pot, you should not be looking for an excuse to play a hand, but rather looking for an excuse not to. Mix in some overlimps with your weakest hands, and make small to medium raises with your suited connector type stuff, and bigger raises with your pure value hands. Nobody at the table will notice when you make it 6x with AA and 4x with Jts - remember, you are trying to accomplish two different things with these two hands, and so it would make sense to adjust your raise sizes accordingly. When you make a very strong nut type hand, and believe the FW to be reasonably strong, hammer the pot with large bets and raises. Do not be scared of frightening the FW off, if he likes his hand, he will stay in almost no matter the price. FWs favorite thing to say after making a bad call, usually accompanied by a chuckle and a smile, is “well at least I can sleep at night”. FWs are wonderful people, great for the game, and fantastic for your bottom line.
PART XXIII: Conclusion
Live poker is the nuts. You get to sit at a table with interesting people from around the world, and hear their life stories. You hear married men ***** about their wives, and listen to Norweigan businessmen who have played 100,000 euro pots. You experience a general sense of comraderie that cannot be replicated in the online arena. I advise you this: do not judge a person’s character by the way he plays cards. Even the biggest whales in the world can be fascinating, interesting and successful people. Take time to soak in the atmosphere and enjoy the full experience of playing live: winning money will take care of itself.

First night ending in the green!

The U.K.’s Public Health Center for Gaming Disorders Marks a New Era in Fighting Tech Addiction

The battle against gaming addiction entered a new era this week when the U.K. public health system, the National Health Service (NHS), announced the opening of its first center specializing in ‘Internet and Gaming Disorders.’
With the new center, the U.K. sets a new baseline for efforts to fight gaming addiction. Other countries have tried to address the issue, but largely on a more limited scale. South Korea, for one, has tried to legislate culture change by policing access to games, but this has proved largely futile. Its ‘Cinderella Law’ allowing only users 16 years and older to log on to online gaming sites between midnight and 6 a.m. didn’t apply to cell phones or tablets.
“Compulsive gaming and social media and internet addiction is a problem that is not going to go away when they play such a key part in modern life,” Claire Murdoch, NHS national mental health director, said in the agency’s statement.
Starting in November, the London-based center’s psychiatrists and clinical psychologists will work with patients between ages 13 and 25 whose lives have been affected by “severe or complex behavioral issues associated with gaming, gambling and social media,” the NHS said in a release.

An international epidemic

The World Health Organization set the stage for such treatment centers in September 2018, when it recognized “gaming disorder” as an official mental health condition for the first time. The designation placed gaming disorder in the WHO’s International Classification of Diseases alongside substance use and gambling addiction.
Associated health concerns listed by the WHO include a lack of physical activity, unhealthy diet, sleep deprivation, aggressive behavior, musculoskeletal problems, depression, and psychosocial functioning.
Funded through the annual NHS budget of 139.3 billion pounds (rising to 143.4 billion pounds in 2020), the U.K. center is meant to fill a gap in mental health treatment that was previously occupied by private programs and more generalized NHS mental health services.
“We are inundated. We have got sixty referrals already,” says Dr. Henrietta Bowden-Jones of the addictions faculty at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, who serves as director of the National Centre for Internet and Gaming Addictions where the new clinic will be located.
“Some have come in over the past few days,” she says. “But others are people who are desperate for help who I have had to tell ‘We’re not a gaming clinic yet, I’m trying to raise the funds to set one up’ and they said to keep our names and let us know when you’re ready.”
Other European clinics have seen similarly desperate growth.
The Yes We Can clinic on the outskirts of Eindhoven, Netherlands, for instance, treated 250 children for gaming addiction in 2018 and has so far treated 450 in 2019 — including 50 from the U.K.
“In the past four years we have seen enormous growth in kids coming into our clinic with gaming addiction,” says Jan Willem Poot, 40, a former addict who created the clinic. Poot does not have a medical background himself; his team includes psychiatrists, therapists, counselors, nurses, and youth coaches. “Every year the numbers almost double,” he says.
The demographics of the clinic’s other overseas clients also reveal the global nature of the problem: in the past two years, Poot and his colleagues have helped children from 22 different countries, including the U.S., Brazil, Canada, Italy, Kazakhstan, Russia, Singapore and Sweden.
Dr. Bowden-Jones says that she expects that a relatively small percentage of gamers will suffer the medically recognized disorder—no more than 2%—but that the issue is important to address because about 75% of young people in the U.K. engage in gaming.

Addictive tools

In discussing games like Fortnite, World of Warcraft and Grand Theft Auto, Poot cites “addictive tools built inside the games” as problematic.
These ‘tools’ feature in-game purchases and “pay-to-win” mechanisms that encourage players to spend real or virtual money in return for character upgrades or improved weaponry.
Then there is the contentious issue of loot boxes—essentially digital treasure chests sprinkled throughout games. Like “pay-to-win” tools, these encourage gamers to take a shortcut and pay for upgrades. The difference is that, with loot boxes, gamers never know what’s inside until they’ve paid to open them.
“It’s just like getting into a casino,” says Poot. “If you look at slot machines, where you pay money without knowing what’s going to come out, then that’s exactly what is being built in these games.”
This view is supported by U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R–Mo.), who introduced The Protecting Children from Abusive Games Act in May to limit online “exploitative practices”. If passed, publishers and game distributors will face fines for both blind loot boxes and “pay to win.”
In a release, Hawley described the business model as akin to “placing a casino in the hands of every child in America with the goal of getting them desperately hooked.”

Gaming industry responds

The online game industry is taking note of the backlash. “We need to take it seriously and adopt countermeasures,” Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida told Japanese news outlets in May.
According to the Entertainment Software Association, console makers Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony will require games to state how likely a loot box is to hold certain items by 2020.
For the NHS, while it can assemble clinicians to lessen the negative impact of addictive gaming, the root of the problem can only really be tackled by the games industry itself.
“Tech giants need to recognize the impact that products which encourage repeated and persistent use have on young people and start taking their responsibilities seriously,” says NHS national mental health director Murdoch.
The dilemma the gaming industry faces is how to address addiction, however, is that intense player engagement is an inherent driver of the $137.9 billion global gaming market—a figure that’s forecast to rise to around $180.1 billion by the end of 2021, says the NewZoo 2018 Global Games Market Report.
Ultimately, the gaming world will need to strike a balance between profit and the welfare of players—something it’s already striving to do through engaging with regulators and the gaming community itself. In recent years this has led to a number of practical changes, such as improved parental controls, the introduction of a simplified age rating system and compulsory in-game purchase description labels.
“We should evolve what we offer and recognize there’s more we can do,” Dave McCarthy, head of operations at Xbox, told the Telegraph (U.K.) in May. “Part of this is saying that we recognize there are challenges and we feel a great responsibility to make healthy spaces.”

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I've Created an Actual Practical Live Casino Poker HUD for Smartphones

First and foremost, here is a landscape screenshot of the HUD I programmed via mobile Excel and have been using for the past year and a half in L.A. casinos with great success. It has earned me roughly $48/hr playing the $3/5 NL holdem games in L.A. over about a 1,000 hour sample. I'd estimate my expected EV is running right about average, and this winrate will look the same (give or take $5/hr over 10,000 or 100,000 hours). I take some credit for being an on-and-off player, but consistent winner since I learned the game at 18 (I'm 31 now). But this HUD has a lot to do with my winrate being where it is, and frankly keeping me from being bored to tears playing live poker for the past 18 months or so.
As are many of you, I'm a former U.S. online player who stepped away from poker after Black Friday turned my world upside down back in 2011 (Full Tilt, thanks for everything). I've had a few decent, middle of the road analyst-type jobs since and have recently left my last one to pursue my Master's degree. While doing so, I have been playing live poker seriously to cover living expenses and supplement my income.
Early on around the spring of last year, I realized that the biggest obstacle I had in adjusting to live poker, especially after 4 years away from the game where I was used to 16-tabling at FTP, was managing the slow crawl of being dealt 18-25 hands per hour of NL holdem. This was a far cry from the 700-900 hands per hour I was used to from my online days. However, to compensate for the slow drip of cards to work with in live games, I noticed that the players I faced when actually receiving playable hands, were absolutely horrendous on average. The slow crawl poker that I thought was a joke during my online days was actually a huge benefit in a sense, as I noticed that patiently waiting for premium or semi-premium hands in loose L.A. casinos almost guaranteed significant winnings in the long run assuming the hands weren't butchered by me post-flop. Everyone else gets 18-25 hands per hour to work with as well, and most of them get impatient at some point or another and KJ suited starts looking like aces to many.
However, even as a patient player, I was still extremely bored folding 84 offsuit all day and actually seeing a flop with a playable hand 3-5 times per hour. I could manage my time browsing the front page of Reddit or watch a mindless YouTube video about how to make a great pizza and still make an ok profit on most days, but I wasn't learning much about my opponents while in between hands. If I managed to stay attentive after repeatedly folding my hands and watching the action, I was picking up on play styles of my opponents, but not to the extent my HUD allowed me to passively do when I played online and everyone's stats just popped up next to them as I played... it was mostly to the extent where I'd noticed seat 3 at my table played a lot of hands and bluffed lots of flush draws, or seat 8 was nitty and seemed to be sacrificing all his blinds. Getting this vague, but incomplete understanding of my table, while knowing how vital it was to pick up on every piece of information I could to ideally play my 3-6 flops per hour as perfectly as possible with these 8 other guys around me... That's when I had the idea to create this live HUD. As much as players say you can get plenty of info just by watching people play their hands (which is true), I wanted to take it a step further. And despite the common consensus that live HUD's are too small of a sample size or too much of a pain in the ass to ever be worth using, I'm glad I went through with this idea.
My biggest worry in making the program was that it would be far too time consuming to be on my phone entering tedious numbers while a live poker game was going on and people were all around me asking me "what game am I playing... that looks weird." Well, I can honestly say that around half the players at my local casinos are browsing on their phones and tuning out while waiting for their next hand. In general, people don't give a shit at all what you're doing on your phone, and even if the floor came over and were genuinely interested in what my program is (which they never have and will never care), I could tell them the truth and they would most likely just find it "cool." I do occasionally have an old timer in the seat next to me take a peek at my phone, but they have no idea what they're looking at. If I don't really care for them and they ask, I'll tell them it's a spreadsheet for work. If I'm cool with them, I'll tell them exactly what it is and joke with them that they should start playing more than their 17% of hands they're playing, or everyone will think they're a nit. They'll usually just laugh when I tell them, and compliment me or ask how "the stats say they're playing". I'll lie and tell them something like "the stats say you're gonna donate all your money to seat 2 in the next 10 hands"... because I'm a poker player.
My next biggest worry in making the live HUD was that half the players in L.A. casinos play for around 1-2 hours at most before going bust or leaving with what they made, which means I'm only getting about a 40-50 hand sample size. I figured this wouldn't do me much good until I realized that the differences in play style statistics in casino players become apparent much, MUCH more quickly than online. I'll explain...
In full ring online games, extremely tight players' VP (voluntarily put in pot) percentages were between 10-13%. Loose players' VP's probably were around 20% and above. In 40-50 hands online, tight players could easily play 20-25% of their hands just by being dealt a good run of hands, making that sample size pointless.
In LIVE games, on the other hand, I quickly noticed that players' VP's (in my casinos) ranged anywhere from 10% to 90%. Yes, 90%. Casual players who come over from blackjack and don't really know much holdem strategy will sit down and literally want to play every hand unless the action has a $500 all-in preceding them, and the player looks down at 62 offsuit and has to begrudgingly fold. In fact, after about 5 sessions of tracking stats, I deducted that the average VP in my casinos is around 28-30% (note that this screenshot is from my most recent Thursday afternoon session, and my table was tighter than typical for this location). And this was among plenty of casino regulars. This average VP in my live games would be considered a MANIAC VP on a Full Tilt ring game back in 2008, when online players were frankly loose and terrible. Yes, tight players in live games will still get a hot run of cards over 40 hands and have a deceivingly high VP%, while loose players can be card dead and be deceivingly low. However, they will usually balance out to within 5-10% of what they are after just 50 hands if you played with them for another 200. You will not see a player play at 20% VP through 50 hands, and be at 45% after 100 hands. It just doesn't happen, unless there's some uber-tilt going on, which is easily picked up on without any need for a HUD.
The point I'm making is that I was noticing that just after a 15-20 hand sample size at any table, I was seeing some players playing 15% of their hands vs. others playing 60%, 70%, or 80% of hands. And this was plenty sufficient to at least give me a ballpark estimate of a player's style without having to mentally remember whether I keep seeing common players playing lots of hands, as most live players do to label players as tight or loose in their minds. The longer these players stayed while I tracked their preflop stats, the more detailed of an analysis my HUD gave on their ranges and play styles. 50 hands of data on a player in a live game is equivalent to about 200 hands of data on an online player, simply due to the DRASTIC percentage differences in VP, PFR, 3B, and even Fold to C-Bet stats among live players.
Finally, probably the most glaring concern, and the one I have spent by far the most time addressing, is the amount of time one would have to spend entering data into the spreadsheet after every hand. Keeping track of what every single player is doing after every single hand is a giant pain in the ass. However, only having to keep track of non-folding players makes things significantly easier. Especially when just tracking preflop stats (the most important stats), which is essentially what my HUD does. By making folds as blank cells by default, and only counting hands where at least one number has already been entered in its respective column, I was able to create a spreadsheet where the program counts everyone's action as a fold by default until a 0, 1, 2, or 3 is put in its place. This cuts down the time it takes to enter stats for each hand by about 80%. If seat 1 raises preflop and everyone folds, I am putting a "2" in row 1 to signify they raised, and leaving every other row blank. That's it. The program automatically calculates row 1's raise into their VP, PFR, 3B, and all their other stats, as well as the overall table stats, while automatically tallying up a fold for seats 2 through 9 in all of their respective stats. If seat 3 raises preflop, seat 5 reraises, and seat 3 folds (along with everyone else), I'm entering a "2f3" (to resemble a raise and fold to 3bet) in row 3 and a "3" in row 5 (to resemble a 3bet). Done. If a new player comes into the game, I'll enter what hand number they started on, and all hands before it are automatically entered as "0"s for that player, which tells my data to ignore those "0" hands for that player.
To debunk a few other commonly brought up myths as to why keeping stats during live games is supposedly pointless:
1) Casinos, at least in California and most in Vegas outside of crazy high stakes games, couldn't care less as to what you're doing on your phone. Apart from being on your phone with a buddy in the middle of a big hand and asking them what you should do, casinos do not want to make it their business as to what you're doing on your phone while you're out of a hand (or even in a hand, as long as you're not slowing the game down). Entering in a couple 1's and 2's into a spreadsheet to gain an analytical edge that they can't comprehend is far from a casino's concern. Even if they wanted to know what you were doing, nothing in any casino rules even hint at this being frowned upon.
2) It is NOT difficult to follow the action preflop, enter in a couple one-digit numbers into a spreadsheet, and then go back to whatever it is you're doing at the poker table. If you already folded your hand, you can enter in whatever seats actually had an action immediately. If you're actually involved in a hand (eg. you raised from seat 1 and had seats 5 and 9 call you), just play your hand as normal and enter the appropriate three numbers when your hand completes. If you miss a hand or happened to have tuned out while watching a cute dog do a somersault on aww, it's not a big deal. The spreadsheet doesn't care. It's at your disposal to give you as much information as you want to take from it.
3) People do NOT treat you as a nit and give you no action just because you keep glancing at or using your phone. It's 2016, and people all around us are on their phones and tablets doing god knows what. In fact, what I've found about live players, is that they're impatient, and even if they KNOW you're studying them or playing nitty (which I do on occasion, but not always), live players are bad and they really can't help themselves. If they have K9 offsuit and see you 3bet them. They aren't focusing on the kid who keeps playing on his phone... they're focusing on the fact that they have K9 offsuit, and maybe this is the time they'll finally peel off a flop and see three 9's hit... because they're totes due!
I can address several other things about my HUD, such as the "action graph" at the bottom of the screen that fills as you play or the shading of each player's cell in column A, which is lightest for the most profitable seat at the table based on the loose/tight players on your left or right and darkest for least profitable seat... But this has turned into a pretty long explanation already. If you have questions, I'll try and address them in the comments. No, this is not currently available for public use yet. But I'm not opposed to releasing it to the masses at some point should it gauge enough interest. I'd ideally like to find some other individuals who are actually enthusiastic about my project and perhaps even find a few app developers with a poker background and turn what is essentially a full-fledged backend spreadsheet into a frontend app with an actual table interface with 9 seats where each seat could simply be tapped, double tapped, etc. to signify limps, raises, etc. for each hand. That is the dream at least... I have no idea at the moment whether it could plausibly ever be a reality. But I can assure all that having this program at my disposal while I've played has been +EV for me, helped me in a couple very key spots where I would have never known to fold my two pair or steal blinds with my junk, or 3bet light, and it's given me some advantages that most would consider unheard of in live poker.

Letting go most of my collection...

I wonder if people still look into this reddit. In the past I collected games till 5 years ago when my room was packed full with big boxes. Now a time has come which I never thought would arrive... I enjoyed watching them for years picking them up from the shelf, reliving the history of the age when the artwork drew you into a store and looked at the back of a big box and looked at all the screenshots and read all the stuff the publisher wrote to make it interesting. Back then I had no internet to rely on, maybe sometimes a review from a game magazine. But mostly I bought stuff blind. The rest from my collection are games I didn't had money for when I was younger. And some games like Blood were just a legend till i found eBay and communities about collecting. Im still at cross-road of letting go of some more rare stuff like Blood and Duke Nukem go (which I was wild about) but at the same time do I really need all those editions? I could just keep one box for display and still be happy. Most of the games are now stored safely away out of sight.
Now some are rarer then others and the conditions vary a bit but most of them are in good condition. I don't want to "give" away these games at prices that wanna make me cry, I just want them to go to other collectors and not re-sellers. The money I spent on shipping and most of all the stupid customs+tax have been ridiculous at times. Still is 10$ a pop a good average for a big box (excluding the more rare stuff)?
Here's a list:

"Nuke It" For Duke Nukem 3D (jewel case)
1942 The Pacific Air War & Scenario
1944 Across The Rhine
3in13in13in Complation
7th Guest (white label)
A.T.F. Advanced Tactical Fighters
A-10 Cuba!
Abomination
Age of Conan Collectors Edition
Age of Empires 2
Age of Empires 2 The Conquerors
Aliens versus Predator
Aliens versus Predator (dvd, 2010)
Alone in the Dark 3
Anarchronox (dvd)
Ancient Worlds
Archimedean Dynasty
Atlantis
Atlantis II
Atlantis II
B-17
Baldur's Gate
Baldur's Gate Forgotten Realms
Baldurs Gate II (Collector's Edition)
Baldurs Gate II (dvd)
Baldur's Gate The Official Strategy Guide
Batman The Caped Crusador (sealed, IBM)
BattleZone 2 Combat Commander
BattleZone II
Bedlam (sealed)
Beneath a Steel Sky (white label)
Beyond Divinity (The games collection) (dvd)
Big Game Hunter III
Bioschock 2 Rapture Edition
Blade Runner
Blake Stone (Zoom)
Blood (sealed, US)
Blood 2 The Chosen The Nightmare levels
Blood Omen Legacy of Kain (sealed)
Blood Unlock the Secrets (sealed)
Braveheart
Broken Sword II
Brothers In Arms Hells Highway Collectors Edition
Burn Cycle
Caesar II
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
Call of Duty World at War Collectors Edition (open, sealed dvd case)
Card Game Classics (sealed)
Carmageddon
Carmageddon (replay)
Carmageddon (replay)
Carmageddon 2
Carmageddon 2
Carmageddon Max Pack (Wide Big Box)
Carmageddon Splat Pack (sealed)
Carmageddon TDR 2000
Carnivores 2 (mini-box)
Carnivores Cityscape (mini-box)
Chasm the rift
Civilization Call to Power
Clive Barkers Undying (US)
Command & Conquer
Command & Conquer Complete with The Covert Operations Mission Disk (Wide big box)
Command & Conquer Red Alert
Command & Conquer Red Alert
Command & Conquer Red Alert complete with The Counterstrike & Aftermath
Command & Conquer Renegade (dvd)
Command & Conquer The Arsenal (sealed)
Command & Conquer The Covert Operations
Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun
Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun Firestorm
Command & Conquer Worldwide Warfare
Commandos Behind Enemy Lines
Commandos Beyond The Call of Duty
Commandos Beyond The Call of Duty
Conan the Cimmerian (sealed)
Conflict Freespace The Great War
Connections
Conquest Earth
Conquest Earth
Conquest Earth (jewel case)
Cossacks
Creatures 2
Creatures 3
Creatures 3
Crusader No Remorse
Crysis (dvd)
Cuberjudas
D!Zone for Doom & Doom II
D!Zone Gold
Dark Angel (sealed)
Dark Earth (sealed)
Dark Fall
Dark Reign
Dark Reign 2
Dawn Patrol Head to Head
Day of Defeat (dvd)
Deer Hunter
Delta Force 2
Demon Gate for Doom II (sealed)
Descent 3
Dethkarz
Deus Ex
Deus Ex
Deus ex (sealed)
Deus Ex Human Revolution
Dexters Laboratory Sciene Aint Fair (sealed)
Diablo
Diablo II
Diablo II
Diablo II Expansion set
Diablo II Lord of Destruction
Diablo III
Diakatana (sealed)
Die By The Sword
Die By The Sword Limb from Limb (sealed)
Discworld Noir
Divine Divinity (dvd)
Dogfighter
Doom II Screensaver (sealed)
Doom The Offical Strategy guide
Duke Carribean Life's a Beach
Duke it Out in DC (MacReplay, sealed)
Duke Nukem (Zoom, sealed)
Duke Nukem 2 Escape for Alien abductors! (jewelcase)
Duke Nukem 3D
Duke Nukem 3D (Kixx)
Duke Nukem 3D (MacReplay, sealed)
Duke Nukem 3D (Premier Collection)
Duke Nukem 3D (Replay)
Duke Nukem 3D 2x (UK)
Duke Nukem 3D Kill-A-Ton Collection (UK)
Duke Nukem 3D level design handbook
Duke Nukem 3D Plutionum Pak
Duke Nukem 3D Plutonium Pak (sealed)
Duke Nukem 3D Strategies & Secrets
Duke Nukem 3D Strategy guide met CD\
Duke Nukem Atomic Edition
Duke Nukem II (sealed)
Duke Nukem Land of the Babes (PS1, jewel case)
Duke Nukem Time To Kill (PS1, jewel casE)
Duke Nukem Zer:0 H:our (N64, boxed)
DUKE the Apocalypse (sealed)
Duke Xtreme
Duke!Zone for Duke Nukem 3D
Duke!Zone II
Dungeon Hack
Dungeon Keeper
EA Complilatie (NFS Road Challenge, SBK Superbike, Sports Car GT) (Sealed)
Earth 2140
Enemy Engaged
Exhumed
F!Zone Fury (sealed)
F1 Racing
F1 Racing
F-22 Lightning II
Fade to Black
Falcon 4.0
Fallout
Fallout Tactics
Far Cry 2 Collectors Edition
Flanker 2.0
Fleet Defender Gold
Fly!
Flying Corps Gold
Formula 1 3D
Forsaken
From Dusk Till Dawn (dvd)
Full Throttle (jewel case)
Gabriel Knight (sierra orginals)
Gaints Citizen Kabuto
Game Wizards for Duke Nukem 3D
Gothic
Gothic Universe (sealed)
Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto (sealed)
Grandprix 2
Grim Fandango
Grim Fandango
GTA 2
GTA 2
GTA V
Gunship!
H!Zone for Hexen and Heretic
Half-Life
Half-Life Blue Shift
Half-Life Generation
Half-Life GOTY
Half-Life Opposing Force
Half-Life Opposing Force
Half-Life Opposing Force
Hand of Fate (sold-out)
Heart Of Darkness
Heavy Gear
Heavy Gear
Heavy Gear II
Heavy gear II
Hellbender
Hellboy (sealed)
Heretic
Heretic II
Heretic Shareware (sealed)
Heretic The Official Strategy guide
Hexen
Hexen
Hexen (sealed)
Hidden & Dangerous
Homeworld
Homeworld Cataclysm
Homeworld Cataclysm (jewel case)
Hunter Hunted (sealed)
In Cold Blood
Indy Car Racing II
Interstate '76 (essential collection)
Invictus
I-WAR
I-WAR
Jane's AH-64D Longbow
Jane's F-15
Jedi Knight Dark Forces II
Johnny Bazookatone (Kixx, sealed)
Jungle Strike
Kingpin Life of Crime
Knight's Chase
Lands of Lore (Whitelabel) (sealed)
Lands of Lore II
Lands of Lore III
Lands of Lore The Throne of Chaos
Larry's Casino
Left 4 Dead (dvd)
Left 4 Dead 2 (dvd)
Left 4 Dead 2 (dvd)
Level Master V for Quake (sealed)
Little Big Adventure 2 (classics)
Lost Eden
Luftwaffe Commander
Lure of the Tempress (sold-out)
M.I.A.
Mad Dog II The Lost Gold (jewel case)
Magic & Mayhem
Magix Music Studio
Max Payne (dvd)
Max Payne (US)
Max Payne 2 (dvd)
Maximum Force (jewel case)
MDK 2
Mechcommander Gold (sealed)
Messiah
Microsoft Flight Simulator
Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
Microsoft Flight Simulator Aircraft & Scenery Designer (sealed)
Might & Magic VII
Mortal Kombat 3
Mortal Kombat 4 (sealed)
Mortyr
Moto Racer
Need for Speed III
Need for Speed Porsche 2000
Neverwinter Nights (minibox)
Nightlong
Nocturne
Nocturne (jewel case)
Nomad Soul
Oddworld Abe's Exodus
Offensive
Oni
Operation Flashpoint Cold War Crisis
Operation Flashpoint Cold War Crisis
Outcast 2x
Overkill (Zoom, sealed)
Panzer '44
Pax Imperia
Pearl Harbor Shadows over Oahu (dvd)
Phantasmagoria Deluxe Limited Edition (fluweel box)
Phenomina for Quake II
Police Quest 2 (jewel case, NL)
Police Quest Colletion Series
Populous The Beginning
Portal 2 (dvd)
Prince of Persia 2 The Shadow and The Flame
Prince of Persia 3D
Pro Pilot '99
Pro Rally 2001
Q!Zone for Quake
Quake
Quake II Mission pack Ground Zero
Quake II Mission pack The Reckoning
Quake Mission pack no. 1 Sourge of Armagon
Quake Mission pack no. 2 Dillusion of Eternity
Queen of the Nile Cleopatra
Quest For Glory Anthology
Rage of Mages (jewel case)
Rainbow Six Collector's Edition
Rainbow Six Covert Ops Essentials
Rainbow Six Gold Pack Edition
Rainbow Six Rogue Spear Platunium Pak edition
Rainbow Six Roque Spear
Rally Championship
Raptor Call of the Shadows (sealed)
Rayman 2 The Great Escape
Realms of The Haunting
Realms of The Haunting
Redline
Redneck Rampage
Redneck Rampage Possum Bayou (sealed)
Redneck Rampage Rides Again
Redneck Rampage suckin' grits on route 66
Redneck Rampage The Early Years
Ressurection Pack for Quake
Revenant
Ripper (sealed)
Robertha Williams Anthology
Rollcage (CD only)
Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Deluxe Edition
Rollercoaster Tycoon Crokscrew Follies
Rollercoaster Tycoon Loopy Landscapes
Rune
Rune
Sacrafice
Sacred (dvd)
Sacred 2 (dvd)
Sacred 2 Ice&Blood (dvd)
Sanitarium
Septerra Core
Serious Sam
Shadow Company
Shadow Man
Shadow Warrior (sealed, UK)
Shadow Warrior (US)
Shadow Watch (sealed)
Shattered Steel (sealed)
Shenmue (Dreamcast)
Shogo Mobile Armor Division
Shogun (rolling demo CD)
Sid Meier's Alpha Centuri
Sid Meier's Pirates! (Limited Edition)
Sim City 2000
Sim City 3000
Sin
Sin Wages of Sin
Sinistar
Soldier of Fortune
Soldier of Fortune (jewel case)
Space Quest Collectors Edition
Space Quest Roger Wilco
Spec Ops II
Spec Ops II
Stalker Call of Pripyat (dvd, special edition)
Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl (steelbox collectors edition)
Star Legions (sealed)
Star Trek New World (CD only)
Star Trek Voyager Elite Force
Star Wars Behind the magic
Star Wars Dark Forces
Star Wars Jedi Knight Dark Forces II
Star Wars Jedi Knight Mysteries of the Sith
Star Wars Roque Squadron 3D
Star Wars X-Wing Alliance
Starcraft
Starcraft Brood War
Starlancer
Steel Panther II Campaign Disk
Street Wars
Strife
Strife
Strife (sealed)
Superbike World Championships
Supreme Commander (dvd)
Supreme Commander Forged Alliance (dvd)
Syberia I & II Collectors Edition (jewel case)
Terminal Velocity (Kixx, sealed)
TerraNova (sealed)
Test Drive 4 (sealed)
Test Drive Offroad (sealed)
TFX
The 11th Hour
The 11th Hour (whitelabel)
The 11th Hour Strategy Guide
The 5th Element Classique Edition
The 7th Guest
The 7th Guest Strategy Guide
The Beast Within
The Elder Scrolls III MorroWind (dvd)
The Elder Scrolls III MorroWind (dvd)
The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim Legendary Edition (dvd, sealed)
The Fallen
The Longest Journey
The Monkey Island Bounty Pack (jewel case)
The Orange Box (dvd)
The Phantom Menace
The Powerpuff Girls Mojo Jojo's Pet Project (sealed)
The Settlers IV
The Sims
The Sims Het Rijke Leven
The Terminator Future Shock
The Ultimate Wizardy Archives
The Vault of Darkness
The Witcher Limited Edition
The X-Files game
The X-Files Unrestricted Acess
Theme Hospital (classics)
Theme Park (classics)
Theme Park World
Thief Collection (dvd)
Thief II The Metal Age
Thief The Dark Project
Time Commando
Time Commando
Titan Quest Immortal Throne (dvd)
Tomb Raider
Tomb Raider (Premier Collection)
Tomb Raider Golden Mask (classics)
Tome Raider Collection (dvd, sealed)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Total Mayhem (sealed)
Total Meltdown for Duke Nukem 3D
Total War Eras
Total War Shogun 2 Fall of the Samurai (dvd)
Traffic Gaint
Tresspasser
Tribes 2
Turok
Turok 2
Ubi Soft Classique Collection Desert and Jungle Strike (jewel case)
Ultima Ascension
Ultima Online The Second Age
Unreal
Unreal Mission Pack I
Unreal Tournament
Unreal Tournament 3 (Steelcase)
USNF '97
Vampire The Masquerade
Vietcong Purple Haze (dvd)
Virtua Squad 2 (CD only)
W!Zone for Warcraft II Tides of Darkness
Wacky Wheels (sealed)
War Wind (sealed)
Warcraft II Tides of Darkness (Orginals)
Wargasm
Warzone 2100
Warzone 2100
WCW Nitro
Wetlands (jewel case, NL)
Wheel of Time
Williams Arcade Classics (Replay, sealed)
Wing Commander III
Wing Commander III (Classics)
Wing Commander IV
Wing Commander Prophecy
Witchaven (jewel case)
Witchaven II (sealed)
Wolfenstein the old blood (dvd)
Jane's WWII Fighters
X Beyond the frontier
X-com terror from the Deep (sealed)
You Don't Know Jack
Zork

Now I got some more stuff but I don't think im ready to let them slip away yet:

Commander Keen 5 (sealed, mint)
iD Anthology
Dark Towers
Thief (US trapezoid box)
Doom Trilogy
Quake Ressurection Pack
Quake The Offering
Quake Quad Damage
One Unit Whole Blood
Duke The Apocalypse
The Blood Group (sealed)
Blood 2 The Chosen Nightmare Levels
Blood 2 The Chosen
Blood (UK, sealed)
Blood Cryptic Passage
Blood (US, sealed)
Blood Plasma Pak (sealed)
Blood Shareware (sealed)
Heretic (sealed)
Deathknight of the Dark Citadel (sealed)
Hexen (sealed)
Hexen II Portal of Praevus (sealed)
Heretic shareware
Wolfenstein (sealed, zoom)
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