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2009-05-06T06:31:00.000-07:00

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Keller's NIght with Phil and Barb At the Ranch

2009-04-15T05:24:00.000-07:00

Some of you may know that I have a low tolerance for alcohol. Phil and Barb know this. Clearly before I arrived at AIR they hatched a plan to tilt and destroy me. Within minutes of parking my truck the con was on. Remember, I had just driven 1300 grueling miles across the untamed Idaho and Montana frontiers, a drive without reliable cell phone converge or drive-thru Starbucks, a drive without

"We've already determined that, now we're just haggling over price"

2009-02-25T15:33:00.000-08:00

I think Perry short-changed himself years ago when he started the trend for a dollar:hat tip: Tao of Pauly

My First Tiltboy Homegame

2009-01-28T18:30:00.000-08:00

"It was 3 years ago now, but events like that you do not forget. "Click here to read Travis' trip report as a guest at the home game.

Now THIS is commitment

2009-01-27T11:22:00.001-08:00

Google girlfriend help

2009-01-12T17:00:00.000-08:00

A "friend" sent me this but I didn't believe him and tried myself. He was right. Check out the helpful completions google provides when typing in the phrase "how to convince your girlfriend"

It's Caption Contest Time!

2009-01-06T23:41:00.000-08:00

Not that it matters, but here's the story.

Frieda!

2008-11-21T15:34:00.000-08:00

As you may recall, the Tiltboys (err Tiltgirls) recently played in the WPT Ladies Championsip. You can read all about it here.Well, "Frieda" just received a letter of thanks from Susan G. Komen for the Cure.Here is the letter (you can click it to enlarge): As Diceboy pointed out "On the bright side, it looks like you only have one of the two major risk factors for getting breast cancer!"Perry

How a Blowjob Saved the World

2008-11-09T06:32:00.001-08:00

[ This is a guest post from good friend, Michael Keller, filmmaker, heads-up poker warrior, and (apparently) blowjob aficionado (who isn't?). Taken from a private email correspondence.].Eight years ago I might have voted for McCain over Gore (remember this was before "An Inconvenient Truth") In 2004 I would have voted for McCain over Kerry. But after McCain's blunders in this election (Palin,

s00per r00ler for City Council

2008-11-04T10:34:00.000-08:00

You gotta love a would-be politician with Roshambo as part of his philosophy. Be sure to read his About Me page. What a r00ler!

Bad Beat on Cancer

2008-10-21T15:13:00.001-07:00

Join me on Nov 22 at 2:05pm ET on Full Tilt Poker for a tournament benefiting PreventCancer.org

If luck weren't involved, he'd win every one...

2008-07-28T10:18:00.000-07:00

Gordon team claims Open SwissThe team captained by Phil Gordon led going into the final day and won five of eight matches to take the NABC+ Open Swiss Teams. The Gordon squad lost the third and seventh matches by close margins. With one match to play, they were in the lead with 128 VPs.... [more]Said Gordon after the final match, "The best part about this victory, is that in bridge, once you are

Back up the truck!

2008-05-25T11:22:00.000-07:00

Start here at minute 8:30...then continue here...and finish here...

Tiltgirls Ride Again!

2008-04-19T17:36:00.001-07:00

After a long hiatus, the Tiltgirls(TM) decided to give it another whirl, this time at the WPT Ladies Championship at Bellagio. While it's clear from the photo comparison that we have become more sophisticated (and hot!) in the looks department, our poker skillz are sadly declining. Though we got more phone numbers and propositions (and I'm not talking about wagers), none of us cashed this time

Tiltboys in Men's Journal (sort of)

2008-04-08T19:46:00.000-07:00

If you look closely you will see that the cover suggests that "experts" will reveal how to win at rock, paper scissors. The blurb on page 106 says, "Against a seasoned player, tell your opponent what you're going to throw and then actually throw it. Most people won't think you're crazy enough to telegraph your throw." Uh, hello? How about giving a little credit where it's due. This strategy

Amen!

2008-03-29T17:26:00.001-07:00

Brothers and Sisters gather near, for this is surely a momentous occasion. From this day forward I shall be known as Reverend Scheinberg, having today been ordained as a minister of the Universal Life Church, Modesto, California. I received my ordination just today, here it is:~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Dear Rev. Scheinberg ,This is to confirm thatMartin "JK" "Tiltdad"

Hideki Matsui: Honorary Tiltboy

2008-03-29T12:54:00.000-07:00

What a r00l3r.Hat Tip: Ace Bailey

Lab With Green Onion?

2008-03-24T14:38:00.000-07:00

My brother-in-law sent this from a restaurant that he ate at recently...

The Porcelain Anniversary

2008-03-22T22:58:00.000-07:00

Saturday (March 22) was our tenth wedding anniversary.Early Friday evening I get hit with a migraine and take an Imitrex. It's a great drug which almost always kills the pain, but unfortunately also makes me nauseated. After three hours of low-grade carsickness, I realize the moment is nigh, and place a lined garbage can next to the bed.JK asks, "If you're going to vomit, could you please do it

What you might not know about the Tiltboys...

2008-03-20T15:44:00.000-07:00

So as the first new Tiltboy in almost a decade, I came into the group with a perspective which (by definition) was different than any of the earlier members. After our recent Cabo trip, I decided to reflect upon the things that I have learned about the Tiltboys that weren’t immediately obvious to me when I read through this site after meeting Phil and Rafe a bit over two years ago. As I write

How the Tiltboys Saved the World Wide Web

2008-03-20T13:20:00.000-07:00

Back in the heyday of the Tiltboys in mid nineties, when we were all single, without kids and not such giant pussies, there was a little operation next door to us in Palo Alto called "Netscape". A few of us entertained trying to get jobs there, hell, we knew this web thing was going to be big. But, that would probably require working really long hours and would cut into the poker game. So none of

I Still Say Nothing Beats Rock

2008-01-10T19:54:00.000-08:00

Check out this simulation of Roshambo population dynamics:Hat tip: Paul Phillips

Tilt Train

2007-12-24T00:28:00.000-08:00

Traveling in Australia on the Sunshine Coast today we took a taxi on the Bruce Hwy to get to the train station. When we arrived back in Brisbane, across the tracks was this:

Who HASN'T had this conversation before?

2007-10-27T12:33:00.000-07:00

Parenting, Tiltboy Style

2007-10-26T15:36:00.000-07:00

A friend of ours named Ace became a parent recently. He made this PowerPoint slideshow on his experience that is reminiscent of several of the Tiltboys' own experiences.

How to Read a Book for Free on Amazon

2007-10-11T14:43:00.000-07:00

With a little bit of cleverness, you can read entire books on Amazon.com for free, assuming they have the "Search Inside" feature. Here's how.Getting StartedWhen you first click the cover of a book that has Search Inside (for example Tales From the Tiltboys), you will be able to flip back and forth between certain pages, up to a point. Typically, they give you through the introduction, index

Our Work Here On Earth is Done

2007-05-24T12:54:00.000-07:00

Tales from the Tiltboys - Phil Gordon

2007-04-26T07:32:00.000-07:00

PHIL “WORLD HOPPING ARTISTE” GORDONPhil was the easiest birth you could hope for. I barely noticed the size of his head, but I felt something when we got to his privates. No, not THAT. I’m talking about the horseshoe that was up his ass. —Phil’s MomPhil is six-foot-nine, charming, rich, and retired. He travels the world for fun and adventure while television show offers and book deals drop from

Another chapter from Tales from the Tiltboys

2007-04-20T08:05:00.000-07:00

JK “TILTDAD” SCHEINBERGI reported directly to JK for a while at Apple, but I never laid eyes on him or spoke to him except when playing poker. —Michael Chow JK became a Tiltboy in much the same way the rest of us did—he was screwed by one. Unlike the rest of us, he married her. The latter was surprising—not that he married Kim per se, but that he married at all. Nobody seemed more suited to a

Official Energy Drink of the Tiltboys

2007-04-06T17:41:00.000-07:00

http://www.tiltthenight.com/main_site.htmlI saw this at the grocery store near me, and it comes in two different strength: 6.6% and 8.0%.They should really call the stronger one "Mega Tilt".

Dicebuy rules again!

2007-04-05T11:29:00.000-07:00

The following message was sent to the Tiltboys list after the most recent home game:For those of you who were not at the last game, Diceboy's magic was clearly back (if it ever went away).Two hands in particular tell the story.The first hand was spit and shit, where Diceboy left to call his wife but Paul played his hand for him while he was gone. Diceboy called all the way, then replaced on the

Bruce just got owned!

2007-03-30T19:27:00.000-07:00

http://bruce.justgotowned.com

solo Vegas trip report

2007-01-15T14:52:00.000-08:00

A trip report I wrote back in August following BARGE:The first week of August is one of eight weeks during the year that’sa peak activity period for my recently adopted line of work, so I'dresigned myself to missing BARGE indefinitely. (to wit: Pussy ad infinitum)First good beat story of the trip: Chuck and Peter are forced tobreak with 15-year tradition and move BARGE to the weekend of the

The New Diceboy?

2006-12-20T15:06:00.000-08:00

Britney Spears ... she's the new Paris Hilton (after Paris Hilton was the new Britney Spears).Small ... it's the new big.The browser ... it's the new OS.And now ...... Lennie ... he's the new Diceboy?Wednesday - Tiltboy game. I had 4 or 5 showdowns with Dice for big pots ... and won them all. Including pulling a 2 outer on the river to take a huge pot. By the end of the evening, Diceboy

Who Is The Player?

2006-12-20T13:58:00.000-08:00

As a followup to Rafe's logic puzzle, I submit the following "Who is the player?" quiz:At some point during a stud hi-lo hand at the game last Wednesday, someone made the comment "we should play where if you don't look at your cards, you can play for half price." Sure enough, the next hand someone announces "7 card hi-lo stud, if you don't look at your hand, your bets and calls are half-price."

Logic Puzzle

2006-12-14T09:52:00.000-08:00

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Logic puzzleDate: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:01:43 -0800From: Rafe FurstTo: Tiltboys For those of you who weren't at the game last night, you missed a pretty interesting hand. I'll present it as a puzzle, and for those who where there, don't give it away until the others have had a chance to guess! Closest explanation to what really happened gets a freeroll

A comic panel dedicated to Stern and Rafe

2006-11-20T10:19:00.000-08:00

A comic panel dedicated to Stern and Rafe

Steve is (really) a pussy

2006-11-09T13:16:00.000-08:00

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Steve is (really) a pussyDate: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:30:56 -0800From: Rafe FurstTo: Tiltboys Laura and I went today to adopt a cat from an animal shelter. It came time to choose a name, and we both looked at each other and knew that this cat should be named "Steve". And after hearing JK's reasoning for legally changing his own name to Martin Scheinberg

Tiltboys: The Movie!

2006-11-06T15:19:00.000-08:00

Very exciting news, we've optioned the movie rights for Tales From the Tiltboys to Lucky Crow Films. Lucky Crow produced the smash indie hit, My Date With Drew, among other successes.They are currently working on the financing, if anyone is interested in betting on the Tiltboys to overcome all odds of actually getting a movie made. We'd fund it ourselves, but since half of our proceeds go to

Free Poker Tips on Video

2006-10-10T15:00:00.000-07:00

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Mike Lonsberry sends some Photos

2006-10-02T16:25:00.000-07:00

TiltcatDiceboy Action FigureThis one you have to click on since it's animated.

Another Chapter from Tales From The Tiltboys

2006-07-31T11:28:00.000-07:00

This is an excerpt from Chapter Three, a brief glimpse into the life of Perry “The Baiter” FriedmanThere is really no need to interview Perry, as the spewage is constant. If I took notes in shorthand on speed, it would be hard to keep up with the banter. ~ Amy CalistriWe get this question all the time. “Does Perry ever shut up? Ever?” After more than a dozen years of

Now that's a Tilter!

2006-07-09T10:26:00.000-07:00

Rafe Wins a Bracelet!!

2006-07-01T07:19:00.000-07:00

In the PLH $1500 buyin, Rafe bested 1100 other players to win first place and take home almost $350,000 and his first WSOP Bracelet.He'll be insufferable now heh.Great big CONGRATS Rafe.And, you've given the rest of us hope now that we can win a bracelet too!

WRGPT15 Update

2006-05-04T09:57:00.000-07:00

There are 21 players left and I'm ........ in 21st place.That said, I'm not quite toothless yet - antes are 3000, blinds are 10000 and 20000, and I've got 128000 in chips.Lennie

Expand this list

2006-04-22T13:38:00.000-07:00

Attorneys generalbrothers-in-law...

Tales From the Tiltboys: Dave "Diceboy" Lambert

2006-04-17T06:55:00.000-07:00

And speaking of writing... here is a sample of Tales From The Tiltboys.This is an excerpt from Chapter Two, a brief glimpse into the life of Dave 'Diceboy' Lambert.When we talk about Dave Lambert, aka Diceboy, we are often accused of exaggerating, if not flat out lying. We claim Dave is six sigmas out on the distribution curve for luck over the average human lifetime. At times, this seems too

Tilted by a Bluff

2006-04-14T09:02:00.000-07:00

Thought I'd write a postscript for our "working" relationshipwith Bluff Magazine.In theory we were going to contribute original content in exchangefor some book publicity and perks. In practice they tended to takeour content, edit and publish it without any collaboration or finalreview.We cut out after 5 articles. Although the writing bears not a hellof a lot of resemblance to our other stuff,

2006-04-04T16:21:00.000-07:00

Here's my latest WRGPT15 Update:I'm in 13th place with 74 players left (out of 1286 that started). Just won a hand with pocket aces with no showdown (my opponent folded on the turn) - the first time I have ever been dealt pocket aces in the 10 or so WRGPTs I have played in.Score file generated Apr 4 15:30:2274 players leftAverage bankroll = $155076.01Standard deviation = $112292.64Rank Table:

A Fine Tiltboy Moment

2006-03-24T18:12:00.000-08:00

I was in Vegas for the National Fantasy Baseball Championships (NFBC) last weekend. I brought two copies of Tales From The Tiltboys to give to a couple of friends in the industry. I had already autographed one for Jason Grey of Mastersball.com. The other was still in its original shipping package from our publisher for Perry Van Hook, with whom I bought into a $1250 entry league.At dinner on

WRGPT15

2006-03-24T10:47:00.000-08:00

For those who care about such things, I'm in 18th place right now in WRGPT15, having just nearly tripled up going all-in before the flop with AK suited (against AQ suited and 77) - the flop had an A, the turn made the AQ suited guy two pairs, but the river brought a Ten that made me a straight. That was the hand immediately after I layed down AJ suited before the flop against a couple of all-in

Oops AND Presto Magnifico!

2006-03-21T08:29:00.000-08:00

(Steve, please skip the 1st paragraph.)So I had been very busy at work and hadn’t played a hand of on-line poker in over 9 months. Then, Steve told me the other day how he was up over $10k at the no-limit games at one of the online sites in the past month and I thought to myself, “Hey, if a fish like Steve can kill the game, it must be pretty good.”So on Sunday night I sit down and hop into three

Calling all Former World Champion Roshamboists....

2006-03-13T19:20:00.000-08:00

It's not the Big One, but still worth entering: Casino to Hold Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament

Oldie but Goodie

2006-03-11T23:34:00.000-08:00

It can be very good to review The Greatest Science Paper Ever Written.

Wikipedia: Tiltboys

2006-03-07T13:33:00.000-08:00

I stumbled across this entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_GordonNo idea who set it up, but it's fairly accurate. Maybe someone will make an entry for the Tiltboys...

5 Confirmed Sales (maybe)

2006-02-25T08:13:00.000-08:00

Based on the book signing turnouts, I didn't think anyone had actually bought Tales From the Tiltboys. But I was just eating some cheetos and googling by myself, and it appears that there are at least five confirmed sales! Or at least five people who read a free copy and felt guilty enough to post a review:...part Ocean's 11, part Swingers, part "Signs you have a gambling problem" pamphlet from

Why the Tiger Woods bet was bad

2006-02-24T22:12:00.000-08:00

I essentially stated that 49 of 50 states had mostly clueless people when it came to making a hypothetical even money bet on Tiger Woods against the field.In short, such a bet approximates making the statement, "Against a professional golfer, Tiger Woods has an 89% of defeating that golfer in match play." If Woods's percentage is less than that, he becomes less than a 50-50 proposition to win a

Diceboy sets record for winning the SF condo lottery

2006-02-23T16:58:00.000-08:00

For those of you who do not already know, Rena and I went in with our downstairs neighbors and bought our property. This includes our building and the single family house behind us. We closed in mid-January. A few days after we closed our realtor took us out to dinner with our money and asked us if we were going to buy a ticket for the lottery. I said, "no, I don't generally play unless it is

Nevada versus the US

2006-02-21T21:19:00.000-08:00

The ESPN question was thus:"Who will win the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship?"Below is the state-by-state non-scientific voting:Generally, I ignore non-scientific polls. That said, this sure makes me want to play poker with people living outside the state of Nevada.

The TiltBlog Mini

2006-02-20T17:06:00.000-08:00

I cannot believe that Apple has not thought of this yet…The TiltBlog® Mini: It is essentially be a Bluetooth earpiece that connects to your cell phone or Blackberry. Once you turn it on, you hear Perry reading all of the Tiltboy blog posts out loud, sort of like a blogs on tape type of thing. In between each post, Perry tells one joke and a bad beat story. The catch is that it is on an

My new line of clothing

2006-02-20T13:29:00.000-08:00

These are the jeans. I'm thinking of a whole new line called "Diceboy Inside" for the summer.

NJ Book Signing for Tales from the Tiltboys

2006-02-19T19:44:00.000-08:00

Kim, Rafe and I went to two book signings for our book "Tales from the Tiltboys" (which bookstores can't keep on the shelves).Here are some (horrible quality - sorry, used my cellphone camera) photos from the two signing. See if you can pick us out!JK

funny hand

2006-02-19T09:57:00.000-08:00

A little mini-comedy from last night's Hold'em session:There's a guy at the table named Roland, he's talking tome about liking the book and reading our trip reports,meanwhile we're both looking for some way to get theother guy on tilt.He's a strong player but I think I have a goodline on his play, and he surely has a good line on mine.A hand comes up where I'm in the small blind and he'sin the

Caption Contest!

2006-02-15T12:46:00.000-08:00

Submit your captions via the "Add a comment" link. Winner will be chosen a week from today.

Publisher's Wager Results

2006-02-15T11:38:00.000-08:00

Congrats to Steve Watanabe who won the Publisher's Wager on the over/under on number of books we'd sell by the end of 2005. Steve gets an invite to the home game, which is more like punishment than a prize, having to listen to Perry non-stop for hours on end.

Phil, you're still short 23k

2006-02-15T09:56:00.000-08:00

So Phil stumbles upon a check for $47,000 in his car.That ought to nicely solve the problem Dice alerted him to six months ago:I bought a bunch of new socks today. I didn’t have enough space in my sock drawer to put all of the new ones, so I removed my drawer and emptied it on the floor to sort through them. At the bottom of my sock drawer I have a wooden lock box where I keep various bits of

Politics of Deception

2006-02-15T01:22:00.000-08:00

Enough is enough.

True Story

2006-02-11T12:41:00.000-08:00

As Dave Barry might write, "and I am not making this up..."I teach high school computer science and mathematics. In the CS classes, students have access to the web.One student initiated a conversation with me about blogs. He asked me if I had a blog and was surprised when the answer was "Yes, actually I do." So, he Googled it up, and found Rafe's name associated with it.First words out of his

Phil-Gordon-8x10-Hot

2006-02-11T10:21:00.000-08:00

Just discovered on Ebay: autographed *hot* picture of Philthe best part:Quantity Available 10Phil, earning a little on the side this way?

Welcome to Tiltboys 2.0

2006-02-06T08:23:00.000-08:00

Not only are we disgusted with ourselves for being a bunch of PUSSIES and letting our home game dwindle to a shadow of its former self, we are appalled at how long it's taken us to start our own blog. Especially since Tiltboys in Vegas could be considered the first poker blog ever written (That's assuming you differentiate between a weblog and usenet newsgroups; there were far nerdier folks than

Use of Proceeds - Tales From the Tiltboys

2005-01-01T13:06:00.000-08:00

50% Charitable DonationsCharities and amounts will also be chosen by Tiltboy-only poker tourneys with the highest finishers determining which charities get and how much!50% World Series of PokerWe will send as many individual Tiltboys as possible to play in the $10K WSOP Main Event. Winner(s) of the seat(s) will be determined by Tiltboy-only satellite tournaments.

Photos - Tales From the Tiltboys

2005-01-01T12:41:00.000-08:00

"And who here comes forth to Roshambo for the bride?"

Preface - Tales From the Tiltboys

2005-01-01T12:38:00.000-08:00

TILT AND WHY IT MATTERSHe asked how I could have Implied Tilt Odds when the personwould be out of the tournament. Well, just the fact that they would beon tilt is reward enough.? -- Perry Friedman What is tilt? And why is it so important to us? Second question first: Tilt is how we keep score. In 1987, the original Tiltboys started the first

Tales From the Tiltboys

2005-01-01T12:22:00.000-08:00

Author:The Tiltboys Editor:Kim Scheinberg Publisher:Sports Publishing LLC Edition:Hardcover (2005) Order NOW on Amazon.com(or read it for FREE online!) [ preface ] [ photos ] [ use of proceeds ] " This book goes to show you how one group of guys that play poker together can go on to rule the world! " -- Phil Hellmuth Jr Poker legend and author of Play Poker Like

Tiltboys Classique!

1987-01-01T14:55:00.000-08:00

Trip ReportsGeeks in Las VegasVegas PilgrimageSix Sigmas OutTiltboys in Panty JoseSix Sidebets OutBARGE 2004BARGE 2006Other DrivelThreepussy OperaTic-Tac-TiltMonkey ManagementRoshambo ChampsWSOP 2001The SuckerPhoneTiltTiltQuizTilt-schwagTiltGolfTMHouse RulesFAQMore CrapPoker Buzz IndexOnline Buzz IndexFull Tilt Poker ModsBluff Articles

Full Tilt Poker

1987-01-01T14:30:00.000-08:00

About

1987-01-01T11:16:00.000-08:00

Russ1987 Rafe1987 Mike1987 Perry1987 Steve1987 "... a half-dozen recent Stanford graduatesand their friends, whose escapades, fueledby Rusty Nail and Green Apple cocktails,would delight Dean Martin."Smithsonian Magazine Dave1992 Bruce1993 Tony1993 Phil1993 Lenny1994 "For a few good belly laughs, read these truetales.... Amidst their PG-13-rated stories of