*note – sorry I haven’t been blogging but my Wordpress got hacked (we’re all good now). An aside to hacker(s) – use your powers for good! Look how much money the chatroulette guy is gonna make!

So we didn’t get renewed. The reasons are varied. Ratings (good but not GREAT), expectations (the highest), and so on. The way I see it: affiliate agreements blocked a built-in international audience from viewing, marketing $ were wasted on expensive billboard and ad buys on sites like playboy.com, Nielsen ratings are an archaic and inaccurate system in desperate need of a technological overhaul (see: 2M2MM was Comcast’s most pirated show EVER.) If the system is broken, what do you do?

I think you change the system. Other people think so too.

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FBTR Episode Two: Coming 3/14/10 from Ryan Firpo on Vimeo.

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We’re toying with group coaching over at DeucesCracked, and Ariel has started his own experiments. I’ve run two groups of my own since I started a few months ago – one didn’t work out so well, the other is moving along at about the pace I expected and the students are starting to bond (and whine to each other instead of me about their bad beats! it’s genius!!!) Group coaching is something I had always wanted to try, but the technology to facilitate wasn’t good enough until recently. We’re hoping that by testing out some different things we can figure out what’s most effective for the student and the best value for the coach, and in many ways (but not all) so far, group coaching seems to be working out better than traditional 1on1 sessions.

Check out Ariel’s group coaching plan here: http://foxwoodsfiend.com/?p=566

And make sure to scope out the badass graph/results pic at the bottom. Because they are badass. The bum hunters are not happy DaEvils has returned.

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Howdy.

I missed my flight from LA to JFK so I’m kicking it in the reLAX lounge at LAX with a sack of McDonalds and some books (Stephen King’s Under the Dome, on an F. Scott Fitzgerald kick with The Beautiful and the Damned).  My Internet was so goddamn unreliable in Australia, and I have a lot I want to write about!@!

IN THE COMING WEEKS!

From Busto to Robusto: good2cu!  2 Months 2 Million news!  Thoughts (from my brain) on poker coaching!  Behind the scenes at DeucesCracked!  Get to know some of the DC boys!  Rush Poker!  POKER (or: Where in the World is pr1nnyraid!)  AND MORE!

For now, fantasize about Wes Anderson’s take on Spiderman:

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