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A+ School Rewards Fundraiser

Geoff — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:31:52 +0000

My daughter’s school is enrolled in the A+ School Rewards program through Stop and Shop. When you use your card, a point is accrued for every dollar you spend. At the end of each month, Stop and Shop totals all the points the school has accrued and that is used in a calculation to determine what percentage of $330,000 her school will be awarded. This is for each month in the school year.

If you shop at Stop and Shop and would like to help, just email/facebook/tweet/call me with your 13 digit Stop and Shop card #. On some key cards, there are 2 small numbers to the left and 1 small number to the right, these all need to be included.

NOTE:

Gift cards, pharmacy, gas, alcohol and/or cigarette purchases are excluded from accruing points.
This points accrual is completely separate from your typical rewards points. So you can still help out AND lower your gas price
You can earn triple and double points by purchasing certain healthy brands.
You can support up to 3 schools

More info here if you are interested.

Thanks!!!!

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The Twitter Poker Tour Championship Series

Geoff — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:54:19 +0000

Well, I teased it during my last blog post, so here it is: We have setup a brand new tournament series called the Twitter Poker Tour Championship Series (or TPTCS for short) that will run from April until June on Full Tilt Poker. These events will run in place of the monthly leaderboard events. We have been looking for a way to mix things up a little and address the issues that some of our players and fans have, namely:

Buyin’s are Too Small/Big!

The TPTCS will feature buyins from $2 up to $50 so that we can cater to a wider pool of players. We are always looking to attract more players and by widening the range of buyins, we hope to do that.

Enough Holdem Already!

We wanted to start offering a different game selection other than No Limit Holdem but we weren’t quite sure how to do it. If we replaced our regular Thursday events with a different game, we would alienate our players that enjoy NLHE. Under this new tournament series, we will have games running Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. We will keep Thursday as NLHE (though we will introduce different game types like 6-max and HU) and will add different games in the Tuesday/Sunday slot. Games like PLO, Razz, 2-7, Stud, etc.

Start Time is Too Early/Late!

With players joining us from across North America as well as Europe, the 9PM ET start time can be a little problematic. It’s still fairly early on the US West Coast and really late in the UK/Ireland and Europe. Though the Tuesday/Thursday events will remain at 9PM ET, the Sunday events will take place at 2PM ET and that’s a late breakfast for the West Coast and early in the night across the pond.

The series will feature 26 events including a multi-entry Main Event and a Tournament of Champions. The winner of each of the 25 preliminary events will get entered into the TOC event with a $216 step 4 ticket up for grabs! In fact, we will be awarding 5 step 4 tickets and some smaller step tickets for winning/placing in various events throughout the series.

Additionally, there will be Full Tilt Red Pro and other poker celebrity players that will be acting as hosts for these events. The current list of hosts include:

Aaron Bartley
Esther Rossi
Linda Johnson
Kelly Kim
Greg Mueller
Matt Jarvis
Matt Savage
Michael Mizrachi

Shaking Things up at the Twitter Poker Tour

Geoff — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:17:00 +0000

@coolwhipflea and I have been discussing for some time now what we can do to expand and promote the Twitter Poker Tour. We have a pretty loyal, albeit small, following of die-hards that play in our weekly online poker events. Many of which have been with us since day 1. Over the years and months we have grown from 20 to 110 players and back to our regular 50 weekly players.

Some of the questions we asked ourselves:

Is the $5 + $1 buyin too small?
Is the one month leaderboard season too short?
Are we providing any added value to the league?
Are we creating compelling enough content on the Twitter Poker Tour website to attract and maintain traffic?

And over the last few weeks we have been putting together something that we hope will be exciting to our existing players and intriguing to our prospective players. We aim to answer all of the questions above, and in fact have already begun doing so.

For instance, we have started to post some poker strategy and how-to articles on-site and in the forums. Speaking of the forum, we have made steps to reinvigorate it. We have re-modded 4Get24BetMe. Some people love him, some hate him but there are a few things that are true about him: He has been a loyal supporter of the TPT since almost (if not the) beginning. He really knows how to play poker and (when he’s not being a wise-ass) does a pretty good job at explaining strategy in the forums. And he helps us out a lot behind the scenes.

As for what we have planned….that’ll have to wait for another post! Paul is working on a press release and we are finalizing some details with Full Tilt and our sponsors. When we are ready, you’ll be the first to know!

WP-Property WordPress Plugin

Geoff — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:38:02 +0000

I have been playing around with the WP-Property plugin on my maine beach rentals website. The website was created to list my mother-in-laws beach house to help book summer rentals.

The plugin is very robust and customizable. My favorite features I’ve uncovered so far are:

- Variety of sidebar widgets
- Google maps integration and address validation
- Property search. I only have one listing, but can see the power of the search feature.

The plugin is replacing a Real Estate theme that had built in property management. But the wp-property plugin is much more intuitive and flexible.

Content Rules – The iBook

Geoff — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:31:38 +0000

If your content is easy to find/attain/purchase/etc, chances are you’ll succeed. This post is sort of a pre-review of a new book I bought called Content Rules. The main point of this post is to tell the story of how quickly I discovered and purchased the book.

I was getting caught up on past episodes of the “Marketing Over Coffee” marketing podcast and came upon the special interview with CC Chapman episode. CC was on to discuss his recent book co-authored with Ann Handley, the aforementioned “Content Rules”. CC put on a great interview, as he always does, and I am really excited to read the book.

Towards the end of the interview CC mentioned all the places you can buy the book, one of them being the iTunes store. The interview ended as I was pulling into my driveway. I unplugged the iPhone from the car stereo, opened iBook, searched for “Content Rules”, purchased for $9.99. By the time I was walking in the door, the book was downloaded and opened for reading. Can’t get much easier than that!

I’ll be sure to post a review here once I am done reading (or while).

Audio Hijack Pro on Ustream with Skype Cohost

Geoff — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:56:55 +0000

I have started to use Audio Hijack Pro as a way to mix all the different sounds together for the weekly TPT Live broadcast. I had been using a hardware mixer but it was proving difficult to get the sounds I wanted in the broadcast while omitting the sounds I didn’t.

I found a great video tutorial called How To Podcast on a Mac With Skype by biznickman and it really got me going down the right path. The only thing missing was allowing the sounds I wanted in the broadcast to go through Skype so that my cohost Paul could hear it. Using the tutorial in that video, the Music, pre-recorded broadcasts and the soundboard were set to go straight to the channel we would push up to ustream but the Skype callers would not be able to hear them.

So here is what I have come up with to rectify that:

Audio Hijack Pro

Soundflower (16ch)
- Input: Soundflower (16ch)
- Output: Silence Output
- Effects: None

iTunes
- Effects: Aux Device Output to Soundflower (2ch)

Logitech USB Headset
- Input: Logitech USB Headset
- Output: Soundflower (2ch)
- Effects: Bass (3.96) and Treble (0.24)
- Effects: Reverb (Wet/Dry: 0, Room Size: 0, Damping: 0.825)

Safari
- Effects: Aux Device Output to Soundflower (2ch)

Skype
- Input (Advanced): MegaMix Mode :: Play outputs through “Both Channels”; Play Inputs through “Mute”
- Effects: Aux Device Output to Soundflower (16ch)

Soundboard
- Effects: Aux Device Output to Soundflower (2ch)

Soundflower (2ch)
- Input: Soundflower (2ch)
- Output: Soundflower (16ch)

Skype

Audio Output: Logitech USB Headset
Audio Input: Soundflower (2ch)
Ringing: Logitech USB Headset

Rush Poker Mobile Yanked from Android Market

Geoff — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 21:25:41 +0000

Recently, Full Tilt Poker was forced to pull their Rush Poker Mobile application from the Android marketplace. This application allowed players to play holdem poker online for real cash. According to Full Tilt, they voluntarily took the app off of the market for “maintenance.” In an email response to those questioning why the app was pulled, Full Tilt stated that the application was no longer available due to maintenance. They also mentioned that they were happy at how successful the app was but because it was only in the beta testing stage there were some maintenance issues that had to be addressed.

Though the aforementioned, is Full Tilt Poker’s take on the matter, the Android Market website seems to suggest otherwise. The website mentions that all gambling websites have to be rated correctly. The correct rating is Teen or above. Also, only simulated gambling is allowed, no real money games via apps are allowed. The latter may be a big reason the Rush Poker Mobile app was pulled, even though the company doesn’t state so.

For those still interested in using the app on their phone, they can download it from the Full Tilt website. In order for it to work, their telephone must have Flash Version 10.1 or higher. There is no word on whether or not the app will once again be added to the Android marketplace.

There has been a lot of discussion surrounding what may really be a non-issue. The company may have taken the app down for maintenance. It was after all in beta. Changes are often made to programs in this stage. However, the mystery develops when one reads Androids TOS regarding apps. It looks like Rush violated them and were thus forced to take their app down. I’m not sure why they wouldn’t just admit that and move on. It would have caused less furor. For those individuals still interested in the app, again, it can be found on the Full Tilt website.

Huge Sunday Events at Full Tilt Poker

Geoff — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:28:11 +0000

What do you associate with Sunday? Church? Football? Well, thanks to Full Tilt Poker you can now associate Sunday with online poker. Full Tilt has went above and beyond and now has over $1,000,000 in guaranteed money being paid out every single Sunday. They call this series of events Big Money Sundays which consists of the Sunday Brawl, the $750k Guarantee and the Sunday Mulligan.

The Sunday Brawl

This is a nice little starter tournament that kicks off at 2:00 PM EST every Sunday. The entry is $240 + $16 with $200 going to the prize pool and $40 going to the knockout bounty pool. The guaranteed money for this event is $350,000. The fun twist to this tournament is that for every person you knockout of the tournament, you get $40! Makes for a pretty aggressive poker game.

$750K Sunday Guarantee

This is Full Tilt Pokers largest weekly guaranteed tournament. There is $750K guaranteed every single Sunday. The tournament starts at 5:00 PM EST and is $200 + $16 to enter. There is late registration options as well as options to buy entry with you Full Tilt Points.

Sunday Mulligan

If you haven’t had enough online poker yet or you missed these first two tournaments, the Sunday Mulligan is still available. This tournament kicks off every Sunday at 7:05 PM EST and has a $200,000 guarantee to it.

Throughout the week Full Tilt Poker has a very nice schedule of guarantee tournaments. But to get the most bang for your buck, give the Big Money Sundays a try one of these weeks and you just might walk a way a winner thanks to Full Tilt Poker.

Ooops, I Did It Again

Geoff — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:07:29 +0000

The “Daddy 2.0″ era starts today. Our 2nd daughter was born early this morning at 6lbs 4oz and 19 inches. Almost the same size as daughter #1.

The staff here at MGH was incredible, especially our nurse Julie. She was with us from start to finish and really made my wife feel comfortable throughout.

The anesthesiologist was excellent and that is always a bonus in the comfort department.

That’s really all I have for you all since I am blogging from the delivery room

Have a great day!

FallenHeroesUSA.org Charity Poker Tournament This Sunday

Geoff — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:06:59 +0000

You can help out a good cause this weekend by playing in the FallenHeroesUSA.org Charity Poker tournament hosted on Full Tilt Poker. It’s just a $10 buyin with half of the proceeds going to the prize pool and the other half going directly to support the charity. The charity is run by Scott Diamond (@DeputySD) and it’s main purpose is to help the families of police officers who have given the ultimate sacrifice while protecting their communities.

Event Information

When: Sunday at 4PM ET
Where: Full Tilt Poker
What: $5 + $5 NLHE Event
Event ID: 190775719
Password: FHUSA

You can also search for ‘cprpoker’ on Full Tilt to find the event. Check the TPT website if you need to signup for a Full Tilt account.

So far there are 3 Full Tilt Red Pro’s registered to play: Andy Bloch, Esther Rossi and Kelly Kim so here’s your chance to play with the pro’s! If you happen to bust one of them, you’ll get your buyin back and an “I busted a Pro” Full Tilt shirt! If you need to brush up on your skills, learn how to play texas hold’em from the pro’s themselves.

About Fallen Heroes USA

FallenHeroesUSA.org was established to assist the families of Law Enforcement Officers who have given their lives serving their communities in the United States. We are a Non-Profit Foundation and no one affiliated receives any compensation for their time and effort.

Our goal is to be able to help the families and memorialize the Officers by posting their pictures on our Heroes page, so no one ever forgets them and the sacrifice they have made for us.