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  1. Lee Jones Lee Jones is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 12:13am)

    You can view the page at http://www.pocketfives.com/content.p...ello-Blackpool
  2. gjallen1975 gjallen1975 is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 2:26am) in reply to Lee Jones

    we ever figure out why he left Cake? was it to play trinity on dexter?
  3. smithgraham smithgraham is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 3:08am) in reply to gjallen1975

    Nice article Sir! Blackpool rulesssssssss
  4. FouTight FouTight is offline international super spy

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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 4:05am) in reply to smithgraham

    '' The British government runs a bond scheme that pays interest not to each individual bondholder, but rather in big chunks (some as large as £1 million) in a lottery. ''If I remember correctly (from freakonomics i think), this strategy was highly successful at getting lots of investment. People didnt see the benefit of guaranteed 2% interest ... but 0% interest with a chance at 1Million was very popular and extremely successful. The bond funds still pays 2% total but instead of 2% to each investor its 0% to most and 1,000,000$ to some. Such genious.Oh ya, good article too!
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  5. Masakik86 Masakik86 is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 4:33am) in reply to FouTight

    Yes, it was a Freakonomics study. Great book :)
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  6. gjallen1975 gjallen1975 is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 4:51am) in reply to Masakik86

    degenerate investors
  7. potbillder potbillder is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 5:30pm) in reply to gjallen1975

    "Similarly, the dealers weren’t always sure what to make of the silly Americans who felt obliged to tip after a medium-large pot"

    Lee, do you really think that tipping after scooping a "medium-large pot" is uncalled for?

    Come on...You can't be that cheap.

    And btw, great read. As expected, of course.
    Edited By: potbillder Dec 7th, 2011 at 05:33 PM
    Reason: spacing error
  8. P33J P33J is offline

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    Dec 7th, 2011 (12/7/2011 10:38pm) in reply to gjallen1975

     
    Originally Posted by gjallen1975 View Post

    degenerate investors

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