I'm not seeing a huge amount of knowledge on this subreddit, so I'm going to list some of the reasons why I'm hoping for some decent price increases..
If you find anything juicy that I've missed feel free to leave a top level comment or even message me and I'll add it. Perhaps we should keep updating this post and sticky it as a goto DD for SCTSCRF?

1. Score have the most popular sports app in Canada and second most popular in the US behind ESPN, this puts them in a somewhat unique position to integrate sports betting in to a popular sports app (though note FUBO just announced purchasing Vigotry with their intention to integrate sports betting in to their sports streaming service, they closed up 34.32% today on the news and likely caused the dips in the share prices for SCR and DKNG, even PENN's share price seemed to waiver around midday);
   
2. Score already have sports betting live in Colorado, Indiana and New Jersey;
   
3. Score recently did a share offering and raised $25,649,390 which can be used for growth and expansion of sports betting in the US - check out their careers page and click on available opportunities;
   
4. Score have a multiyear partnership with the NBA and the MLB to be an authorized sports betting operator, including access to official betting data and league marks/logos for the betting app;
   
5. Score have a strategic multi-state market access partnership with PENN, PENN have access to 11 states, further PENN have a 4.7% stake in Score with the potential for this stake to increase as additional market access fees become payable (the second link, which is from PENN, says the term of the agreement with PENN is 20 years, even DKNG only has a deal for 10 years subject to a 10 year extension);
   
6. Score have a 10 year partnership with Twin River to operate an online casino in New Jersey, extendable by 5 years at TheScore's option and a further 5 years upon mutual agreement;
   
7. In Dec 2020 Score was named the most impressive emerging company in sports betting. They are also in Canada's fastest 500 growing companies, Canada's top growing companies 2019 and a 2020 TSX venture 50 company;
   
8. Let's look at some user numbers. As expected they were down a bit during 2020 due to covid, but that is about to change across the industry with sports opening up properly and sports betting being legalised in many US states and hopefully Canada to help raise tax funds for covid expenses (never will sports betting have been more socially acceptable, almost encouraged!). They achieved 3 million active monthly users (4.3 million in q1 2019, should see this or higher again once sports start up properly - 62% of those users were in the US, 27% in Canada and the remaining 11% in other international markets). Users had an average of 70 sessions per month (75 the year prior), so 3*70 = 210 million users per month. 292 million video views for esports in just Q4 alone, year-over-year growth of 243%! Their esports tiktok account has over 1 million followers while their sports tiktok account has almost 2.5 million (up over 500k in the last quarter). Over 1.5 million youtube subscribers for their esports channel. Their twitter account has ~600k followers, almost double what DKNG have! Their social sports content across Twitter, FB, Instagram and TikTok achieved an average monthly reach of about 103 million;
   
9. Score appointed sports business leader and four-time Olympian Angela Ruggiero to its board of directors - she's a hockey player, got a medal at each of the Olympics she went to including a gold;
   
10. Score already cover women's sports, doing this without having to follow the competitors or have it requested by women shows a genuine interest in supporting women's sports. Hopefully this will extend to allowing sports betting on women's sports;
    
11. Score esports has been named exclusive English language broadcast partner for League of Legends' Demacia Championship, a marquee annual event featuring 24 of China’s top esports teams. Live event coverage will run from December 20-27 and be streamed across theScore esports’ YouTube and Twitch channels. The Demacia Championship will be theScore esports’ first-ever live event broadcast, with production originating from their esports headquarters in Toronto.
    
12. In 2019 Score partnered with Ubisoft for unique video content series;
    
13. In 2014 Score was named one of the world's greatest apps (and in 2013 was named one of the 100 best Android apps of 2013);
    
14. Score has joined the National Council on Problem Gambling as a Platinum member - this bodes well for support of Score from politicians and people normally critical of sports betting who are mostly onside at the moment through the need of raising tax money for covid related costs.
    

Future catalysts I'm hoping for:

1. There's a live webcast to report q1 f2021 financial results Jan 13 at 5:30pm EST (details here). Hopefully good news so we 🚀 rather than ☄️ short-term, but I'm still bullish long-term regardless because sports have not really started up properly yet, nor has sports betting opened up in many places yet. With a bit of luck the income from the share offering will be included in the revenue for this quarter which might help;
   
2. If we ever get uplisted to NASDAQ/NYSE and get out of the penny stocks then I would be surprised if it doesn't get pumped in numerous places including WSB;
   
3. Legalisation of sports betting across more US states and Canada. The governor of NY has now expressed interest after previously being opposed to the idea, so too has Texas for example. Score do not yet have a partnership with a NY casino, but hopefully they will get on to that, they do have access to Texas through PENN;
   
4. Partnerships with NFL and NHL would be awesome to go along with the NBA and MLB partnerships;
   
5. Successfully competing with the big players like DKNG (and now FUBO too), hopefully with juicy earnings reports in to the future (if we do, look at the performance and current prices of DKNG and PENN, I'd be extremely happy if we ever made it to CAD$20/share, if we got to DKNG's current USD price we'll be in tendie heaven);
   
6. Huge uptake in sports betting with a rally of public support to help cover the public costs associated with Covid;
   
7. Maybe esports betting could become a huge thing? TheScore seem like they're in a good position to earn a decent market share there, possibly even be the ones to introduce it and bring it to market?
   

tl;dr: 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 (hopefully at least 10x)
If you would prefer an ETF to have exposure to the betting market check out BETZ.
position: 42.8k shares

Not Financial Advice (NFA)
Warning: Wall of Text. If you hate reading just skim through the bolded/italicized
Ever since I publicized my findings on DKNG, the stock has underperformed & probably has fucked a lot of people here, especially given the overly bullish stance back in June. Unless you took my advice & got into Puts then, congrats, welcome to tendie town. For the ADHD retards, here’s what the next wall of text is going to summarize: I believe at the current price of ~$30, the stock is oversold.
A tech-focused, high-growth Company that has made sports betting easy to understand with an aesthetically pleasing interface similar to how Robinhood has neatly laid out stock market gimmicks so even high-schoolers can make sense of it I believe, is underpriced at these levels.
Let’s get into some details as to why the stock has underperformed:
First off, the news slate revolving sports with the rumored delay/cancellation of the MLB season & the NFL watching from the sidelines is in my view, just a part of why the stock has underperformed. We’ll revisit this later in this post, but I want to focus on the drivers of the stock’s recent underperformance, & why these factors are now in the rearview mirror.
Part I – The Past Has Passed – SPAC-related Equity Dilution
History lesson first: DKNG went public via a SPAC merger, which has exploded in popularity recently. Anyone serious about analyzing stocks going forward needs to do their homework on this, Google is your friend.
A feature of most SPAC merger to public listings that creates a headwind to near-term share prices are embedded equity dilution events, usually in the form of earn-outs (stock bonuses to execs, the SPAC sponsor) & conversion of Warrants.
On 5/24, the earn-outs were triggered, adding 6m shares to the share count.
On 6/26, 16.3m warrants converted to DKNG, netting them ~$188m of cash.
Stepping back a little, in addition to the above, on 6/18 DKNG launched a follow-on equity offering of 16M shares @ $40/Share [1], receiving $621M in proceeds.
The last part is tricky to understand from a dilution perspective. To simplify, historically it’s almost a coin toss whether a Company’s shares outperform on the onset of an equity offering. While issuing shares does dilute the existing shareholder base, it theoretically shouldn’t, if the proceeds from the offering are earmarked for investments/projects that yield outsized returns. This is the reality for the long term, theory for the short-term. For the short-term, the ‘reality’ isn’t that the proceeds will be used for investments/projects that yield outsized returns, it is more about how convincing management is to investors that the investments they intend to pursue with the proceeds will outweigh the dilutive effects of issuing incremental shares. That’s a mouthful, but hopefully you get what I’m trying to convey.
All of this stuff put together – the Company has increased its share count by ~39M, but now has a whopping ~$1.4Bn of cash [2]. More on this in the next section.
Part II – MLB News Should Not Fucking Matter & DKNG Is Positioned As the Leading Online/Mobile Sports Platform
DKNG should not be so tied to MLB news or any of this shit as the ongoing success of the NBA/NHL season + Soccer in Europe has effectively created a blueprint on how to regulate player behavior so that they maintain professionalism amidst the pandemic. I’m going out on a whim here, but I truly think the MLB threatening a cancellation of the season is pure posturing to get these fuckers to behave appropriately. Maybe a ‘bubble’ is what it takes to get these players to focus on their jobs instead of going out & contracting COVID, but I argue that isn’t necessarily required given Soccer in Europe. So there’s already a proven path here without the need for a bubble in Soccer, so MLB/NFL should be fine, and execs need to study how they got it done in Europe. Okay, back to some facts.
Anecdotally, I’ve kept in touch with a handful of sports bookies from California to New York & even internationally about what they’re seeing – all of them say that since the NBA season started on 7/30 & since Soccer (especially the Premier League) resumed in June, along with other leagues like La Liga & Serie A, they’ve seen massive increases in betting.
These numbers are also showing up in the official data [3]:

• Average % increase in sports betting handle from April 2020 to June 2020 (handle is the total $ wagered in sports bets) from the states that reported up to June 2020 (NJ, PA, MS, RI, WV, IA, IN, NH) of +258%!
  
  • Note: NV is left out due to the site I sourced showing a weirdly negative number – so I dug into the official filings & show specifically, Sports Mobile betting growth from June since April has growing by at least +73% [4]

REMEMBER: This is for June only! No NBA, No NHL, No MLB, just Soccer, Golf, NASCAR & UFC.
The data clearly shows that there was a ton of pent-up sports betting demand, which leads one Wall St. analyst to think that betting on the NBA/NHL could ABSORB the MLB’s sports betting handle (handle = total $ size of sports bet) [5]. Remember, the MLB season is still ongoing, with games being played. The entire focus is on the Miami Marlins & St. Louis Cardinals. Fucking retards.
Additionally, I want to remind everyone that DraftKings.com is the #1 Fantasy sports website in the U.S. [6]. Also, since April 2020 site visitations are up +86% [7] & Google Search Trends for “Draft Kings” is up ~3x compared to PRE-COVID levels [8]. What does this mean? They are piquing more people’s curiosity than prior to COVID/ongoing slate of sports.
This is important because remember that ~$1.4Bn chest full of cash I mentioned DKNG had assembled earlier? Well, that money is being put to work & results are already coming in, which is exactly what DKNG intended to do with it.
Part III – Legalization of Sports Betting in the U.S.
I could write a fucking bible on this topic alone, but for now we’ll stick to some basics. Due to COVID, it’s easy to understand that each State’s financial situation is clearly in shit. Because of this, you better believe that these guys are going to start taking a hard look at how they can extract additional tax revenues, & what’s one of the easiest ways to do this? Legalization & taxation of gambling.
The big players: CA, TX, FL & NY. First, CA pushing its legislation out to 2023 was fucked up, but here’s a twist I want to add to this: Anything that has to do with gambling in CA you better believe is lobbied against by not just the Tribal casino owners in CA, but by the deep pockets of Las Vegas money. Similar thing can be said for FL, but let’s take a look at some actions by LV/nationwide gambling companies that are starting to align financial incentives with guys like DKNG.

• MGM / GVC Holdings JV in BetMGM - $450m total invested
• PENN invests $163m into BS Sports
• Caesars has a 20% stake in William Hill plus partnership deals with The Stars Group (TSG) & our winner DKNG for operating its sports books

So it’s safe to say going forward, nationwide legalization of sports betting will reap rewards for everyone involved, & no longer be something LV money is completely focused on safeguarding.
Let’s also not forget that DKNG didn’t become the Company they are today because of their fancy app, but because their management team has a HISTORY of navigating the U.S.’s legal framework to get what they want out of it.

• The Crown Jewel – The Internet Gambling Prohibition & Enforcement Act: I said it in a previous post, but I want to emphasize that them getting Fantasy Sports to be labeled a ‘game of skill’ by FEDERAL Law as opposed to gambling is just something for the history books. Fucking genius shit. When this happened I bet every casino from LV to every Indian Tribe that has one was against it, yet DKNG & other DFS providers won.
• There’s more, but more recently: Getting into IL:
  
  • In IL, there’s an 18-month ‘penalty box’ for Companies that offer DFS to offer sports betting. Our guys at DKNG created a workaround to this situation with their partnership with Casino Queen [9]. DKNG being savvy again.

These guys are at the cutting edge of creating legal frameworks to successfully launch their products & now with more of their ‘competitors’ financially aligned with them, combined with financial deterioration of State budgets, we should see an overweighting of good news vs. bad on the legal front.
Final Part – Share Price Targets
Under-fucking priced at anything below $42.50
Near-term catalysts:
8/14: DKNG files 2Q’20 results, might be shitty, but you can bet that the Earnings Call is going to contain rhetoric on how massive the uptick in sports betting has been since late June/July.
Sometime from now until November: NY releases ‘study’ by Spectrum Gaming on online/mobile sports betting.
8/20 – 9/7: PGA Championship for FedEx Cup Title
9/5 – KY Derby
9/10: NFL KickOff Game
9/17: PGA U.S. Open Start Date
Month of October: NBA/NHL Playoffs
10/1: Estimated launch of online sports betting in TN
11/1: Estimated launch of online sports betting in VA
[1] https://draftkings.gcs-web.com/news-releases/news-release-details/draftkings-announces-proposed-public-offering-class-common-stock
[2] Wall St. Research – DKNG on 6/29/20
[3] https://www.legalsportsreport.com/sports-betting/revenue/
[4] https://gaming.nv.gov/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=16984; Note: Nevada did not break out April/May figures but from the Revenue difference of 3 month ended June 30 of 4,950 vs. month of June of 2,297 for a total difference of 2,653 spread evenly over April/May for a base case April estimate of 1,327.
[5] Wall St. Research - 7/27/20
[6] https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/category/sports/fantasy-sports/
[7] https://www.similarweb.com/website/draftkings.com/#overview
[8] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=draft%20kings Feb 23-29, 2020 vs. Current Aug 2 – Aug 8, 2020
[9] https://www.legalsportsreport.com/42314/draftkings-illinois-sports-betting-market-access/

Looking to make some swaps! I have 80 confirmed trades. Also, fair warning, these lists are long, I have a lot of stuff for trade! Looking to do fair value but where I have an item that is worn / in poor shape I value that lower than eBay averages due to condition.
p.s. "CIB" means including all the booklets and such that were supposed to come in there, otherwise I will clarify what is included. "NIB" means New In Box, aka sealed, "brand new," in the shrink, etc.

HAVE

Switch games and accessories

• Celeste CE - NIB, hard trade
• Danmaku Unlimited 3 - NIB with card
• Downwell - NIB
• Gekido Kintaro’s Revenge - CIB
• Helmut the Badass from Hell - NIB
• Rive - SRG trading pack only
• Snake Pass - SRG trading pack only
• The Darkside Detective - NIB with sealed cards, hard trade
• PowerA Premium Game Card Case red Super Mario M - NIB and authentic
• PowerA game card case black Zelda Z - loose, knock-off :(

Wii U

• Assassin's Creed III - NIB
• NintendoLand - box, manual and booklets only
• Runbow Deluxe Edition - NIB or CIB (willing to trade one of these)
• Shovel Knight - NIB, hard trade

Wii games and accessories

• ABC Wipeout 2 - CIB
• Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 - NIB
• Gallop and Ride! - CIB
• Game Party - CIB
• Ghost Squad - CIB
• Ghostbusters the Video Game - NIB
• Hello Kitty Seasons - CIB
• Link's Crossbow Training - disc and manual in cardboard sleeve
• M. Knight Shamalayan's The Last Airbender - CIB
• MLB Power Pros 2008 - CIB
• NCIS - CIB
• PBR Out of the Chute - CIB
• Petz Horse Club - CIB
• Petz Sports - CIB
• Press Your Luck 2010 Edition - CIB
• Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip - CIB
• Vegas Party - CIB
• Victorious Boxers Revolution - CIB
• Walk it Out! - NIB
• Wii Fit Plus - CIB (no balance board)
• Zhu Zhu Pets Featuring the Wild Bunch - CIB
• Big Town Shootout 2 Blasters big box - NIB (game download no longer works) (these blasters are attachments for Wiimotes to make them into pistols, great accessory IMO)

GameCube games and accessories

• Army Men Air Combat The Elite Missions - game and manual only
• Hunter the Reckoning - CIB, hard trade
• Lego Star Wars - CIB
• Lego Star Wars II - CIB
• NBA Courtside 2002 - CIB, has wear
• NCAA Football 2003 - CIB
• Robotech Battlecry - CIB
• Scooby Doo Mystery Mayhem - CIB, hard trade
• Superman Shadow of Apokolips - CIB, also have a Nintendo Power poster to go with it
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - manual only
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 - CIB
• Action Replay - manual only

N64 booklets
Most of these have wear

• 1080 Snowboarding - manual and operations card
• Army Men Air Combat - manual
• Banjo Kazooie - manual (wrinkled)
• Banjo Tooie - manual
• Battletanx Global Assault - manual (wrinkled)
• Bomberman 64 - manual
• Buck Bumble - manual
• Diddy Kong Racing - manual, operations card
• Donkey Kong 64 - manual
• Extreme-G - manual
• Goldeneye 007 - manual
• Kirby 64 - manual
• Mario Kart 64 - manual, operations card and player's guide offer booklet
• Mario Party 2 - manual
• Mario Tennis - manual
• Rugrats Scavenger Hunt - manual
• Star Wars Episode 1 Battle for Naboo - manual (has marker on top right)
• Super Mario 64 - manual
• Yoshi's Story - manual and operations card
• Zelda Ocarina of Time - manual

NES games and accessories
Pictures of most items here

• Original game pad
• Original orange zapper
• RC Pro Am - game only
• Super Mario Bros / Duck Hunt - game only
• Tiger Heli - game only

3DS games and accessories

• Brain Age Concentration Training - box, manual (cover art has a small tear on back)
• Legend of Legacy big box launch edition - CIB, hard trade
• Legend of Zelda Triforce Heroes - NIB
• Poochy and Yoshi's Woolly World EU region big box only (can hold both game and Poochy amiibo)
• Sonic Lost World - CIB, has a small hole on front cover
• Tomodachi Life - manual
• Operations manual and other inserts (no AR cards) for launch model 3DS in bag
• 2DS XL quick start guide
• Nyko Game Boost power attachment for launch model 3DS - NIB, some box damage

DS games and more

• Chrono Trigger - box, manual, all inserts including the poster
• Dragon Quest Heroes Rocket Slime - box, manual, all inserts
• Fossil League Dino Tournament Championship - CIB
• Hamsterz Life - CIB
• Go Diego Go Great Dinosaur Rescue - CIB
• Junior Brain Trainer - CIB
• Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games - manual, all inserts
• Metroid Prime Pinball - box, manual, health and safety insert (cover art says Rumble Pak included but there is no Rumble Pak)
• Rune Factory - box, manual, all inserts
• Scribblenauts Unlimited - manual only
• Spongebob Squarepants Atlantis Squarepantis - NIB
• Star Fox Command - box, manual, all inserts
• Warioware DIY - box, manual, all inserts
• Yoshi's Island DS - box, manual, health and safety insert
• EMS NDS Adapter - CIB (Not the newest version, works best with Windows XP)
• Operations manual and other inserts for black DSi in bag
• Instruction booklet for launch model DS
• I also have some health and safety precautions booklets and one WiFi connection booklet

GBA

• 3rd party charger - looks like an OEM charger but isn't
• An American Tail Fievel's Gold Rush - CIB
• Atari Anniversary Advance - CIB
• Backyard Basketball - game only
• Backyard Football - game only
• Candy Land / Chutes and Ladders / Memory - CIB
• Connect Four / Perfection / Trouble - CIB
• Crash Bandicoot the Huge Adventure - game only
• Disney's Monsters Inc. / Finding Nemo - game only
• Ecks vs Sever - game only
• Ed Edd n Eddy the Mis-Edventures - game only
• F-14 Tomcat - game only
• Garfield the Search for Pooky - CIB
• Golden Nugget Casino / Texas Hold 'Em Poker 2 in 1 value - CIB
• Madden 2003 - game only
• Mario Pinball Land - CIB
• Mario Tennis Power Tour - game only
• Medabots Rokusho Version - game only
• Monster Trucks - game only
• Muppet Pinball Mayhem - game only
• Need for Speed Underground - game only
• Pac Man Collection - game only
• Pac Man World - game only
• Pocket Dogs - CIB
• Rayman Advance - game only
• Road Trip Shifting Gears - CIB
• Rugrats I Gotta Go Party - game only
• Sonic Advance 2 - game only
• Spongebob Squarepants Battle for Bikini Bottom - game only
• Spongebob Squarepants Lights Camera Pants - game only
• Spongebob Squarepants Revenge of the Flying Dutchman - game only
• Spyro 2 Season of Flame - CIB
• Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World - game only
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 - game only
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - game only
• Uno / Skip Bo - game only
• Yoshi's Topsy Turvy - CIB

GBA Video sealed titles
Pictures here

• Dragon Ball GT Volume 1
• Nickelodeon Rugrats All Grown Up! Volume 1
• Nicktoons Collection Volume 2

GBC games and more

• Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 3 - game and manual
• Game and Watch Gallery 2 - box, manual and game with repro tray
• The Legend of the River King - game only
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater - game only
• Wings of Fury - CIB
• GameShark Pro - box, manual (no tray)

GB games and more

• Mint condition Game Boy Pocket silver launch model with booklets
• 4 in 1 Funpak Volume II - game only
• Baseball - box, game with repro tray
• Battleship - box, game, registration card, poster with repro tray
• Bo Jackson Hit and Run - game and manual
• Centipede and Millipede - box, tray, game, manual
• Desert Strike - box, manual, game, inserts with repro tray
• Dr Mario - box and game with repro tray
• Face Ball 2000 - game only
• Game and Watch Gallery - box and manual with repro tray
• Ghostbusters II - game only
• Golf Player's Choice - box, manual and game with repro tray
• Hyper Lode Runner - game only
• James Bond 007 - game only
• Kirby's Pinball Land - game only
• Kwirk - game only
• Mickey's Dangerous Chase player's choice - game only
• Mole Mania - game only
• Nemesis - game only
• Paperboy - game only
• Penguin Wars - CIB
• Shanghai - game only
• Super Mario Land - Box, game, manual, with repro tray, game label has some wear
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fall of the Foot Clan - game only
• The Chessmaster - box, game, inserts with repro tray (no manual)
• The Smurfs - game only
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - game only
• WWF Superstars 2 - box, game, manual, all inserts with repro tray
• Nuby Worm Light safety instructions booklet only

SEGA Genesis games

• Madden NFL '94 - CIB
• Mike Ditka Power Football - Cardboard box and game, box has a lot of wear
• Pat Riley Basketball - CIB, has wear
• Sports Talk Baseball - CIB, has wear
• Super Battleship - CIB
• Triple Play 96 - CIB, has wear
• Unnecessary Roughness 95 - CIB, has wear
• World Series Baseball 96 - CIB, in cardboard box with registration card, has wear

PS3 games

• Battleship - NIB
• Burnout Paradise greatest hits - CIB
• Killzone 3 - NIB
• Mini Ninjas - CIB
• Uncharted 3 Drake's Deception - NIB
• WWE 12 - CIB

PS2 games
Pictures of most games here

• Ace Combat 04 greatest hits - CIB
• Alter Echo - CIB
• American Idol - CIB
• Blade II - CIB, poor condition
• Crash and Burn - CIB
• Dead to Rights - CIB, poor condition
• Dropship: United Peace Force - Box and disc
• FIFA Soccer 2003 - CIB
• Final Fantasy XI Online - CIB (I have two copies, one is a double disc version)
• Gadget Racers - CIB
• Gauntlet Dark Legacy - CIB
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - CIB
• IndyCar Series - CIB
• LA Rush - Box and disc, no bonus disc, case is a rental case
• Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 - CIB but disc is red label
• Pirates Legend of the Black Buccaneer - box and disc
• Pryzm Chapter One: The Dark Unicorn - CIB, poor condition
• R-Type Final - disc only
• RTX Red Rock - CIB, poor condition
• Rumble Racing - CIB, hard trade
• Rune: Viking Warlord - CIB
• Savage Skies - Box and disc, poor condition
• Sky Odyssey - CIB, hard trade
• Star Wars Battlefront greatest hits red label - CIB
• SOCOM II: US Navy Seals - manual only
• Supercar Street Challenge - CIB
• The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - CIB with a bonus loose DVD disc of the film
• UFC Throwdown - CIB
• Wrath Unleashed - CIB, poor condition
• WWE Crush Hour - Box and disc
• Yanya Caballista City Skater - CIB, poor condition

PSX games
Pictures of most games here

• 007 Tomorrow Never Dies - Case, manual (no disc)
• Crash Bandicoot 2 Cortex Strikes Back - Box, back cover art, disc (missing manual)
• Jeopardy! - CIB
• Need for Speed Hot Pursuit greatest hits green label - CIB
• Star Wars Rebel Assault II - CIB
• Tetris Plus greatest hits green label - CIB
• Wheel of Fortune greatest hits green label - CIB

IBM Tandy

• Mario Teaches Typing big box - NIB

PC

• Cubix: Robots for Everyone - NIB
• Jimmy Neutron vs Jimmy Negatron - manual only
• Oil Tycoon - NIB

Strategy guides and gaming magazines
Pictures of most guides here

• Pokemon Black White
• Pokemon Black White Version 2 CE Hardcover
• Pokemon Ruby Sapphire
• Super Smash Bros Brawl
• Conflict Desert Storm II (Prima)
• Mario 64 Unauthorized guide (missing front cover)
• Game Informer (Magic Legends Cover)
• Game Informer (Pokemon Sword Shield cover, the style with legendaries on front and back)
• PC Gamer (Star Trek Online)
• EGM (Year of the Portables), missing back cover

Collectibles and posters

• Ni No Kuni II Figpin "Evan" - still in box
• Hatsune Miku Funko Pop - NIB
• Club Nintendo Super Mario Children's Book JP Exclusive - New
• 2003 Nintendo Duck Hunt Patch - New
• Poster: Monster Hunter 3 Tri 20x27"
• Poster: Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games 40x14"
• Poster: New Super Mario Bros Wii / Zelda Spirit Tracks 12x17"
• Poster set: Bravoman and Bravoman x Wonder-Momo 11x15"
• Poster: Superman Shadow of Apokolips (from Nintendo Power)

Comic Books

• Marvel - Toys R Us Limited Edition X-Men #1
• Marvel - X-Men: The Ultra Collection Jan Book 2 of 5
• Marvel - Wolverine #109
• Marvel - Wolverine #111
• Marvel - X-Force #27
• Marvel - X-Force #28
• Marvel - The Invincible Iron Man #1
• Marvel - Original Human Torch #3
• Marvel - The Thing #16
• Marvel - Daredevil #362
• Marvel - The Beast #3
• Marvel - Cable #34
• Marvel - The Secret Defenders #15
• Marvel Fanfare #2
• Marvel - X-Factor #\71
• Marvel - Wonder Man #1
• Marvel - Inhumanoids #1
• Marvel - Inhumanoids #2
• Marvel - Inhumanoids #3
• Marvel - Steelgrip Starkey #6
• Marvel - Kickers Inc #1
• Marvel - Justice 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
• Marvel - The 'Nam #14
• Marvel - The Punisher Armory #9
• Marvel - Spider-Man Storm and Power Man Battle Smokescreen!
• Marvel - Spider-Man Battles the Myth Monster
• Marvel - Spider-Man Magazine for Kids - Summer 1996, Fall 1996
• DC - Steel #1
• DC - Batman #509
• DC - Catwoman (93 Series) #4
• DC - The Green Lantern Corps #206
• DC - Hawkman #2
• DC - Tales of the Legion of Super Heroes #5
• Dark Horse - Predator Big Game #1
• Dark Horse - Jonny Quest The Real Adventures 1, 2, 3
• image - The Savage Dragon #11
• Star Wars X-Wing Rogue Squadron The Phantom Affair (book)
• Officer Snook #1

Random Stuff

• White Verizon iPhone 5S with protective case and charger
• Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 2 - Pretty sure this is unlocked, but will not work on Verizon, comes with Cyanogen OS, charging cable and dock
• GameKlip controller mount NIB - Would work great with the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, requires a PS3 (aka DS3) controller, learn more here
• Ledger Nano S Whitepaper Edition NIB
• Micro Machines Star Wars Tie Starfighter Sealed
• Holy Ghost - Static on the Wire Vinyl Like New
• ABSRDST- Boss Beats CD sealed (An EP of Mega Man remixes)
• Speed Racer: The Movie VHS CIB
• Adventure Time: Jake vs Me-Mow DVD + Finn Hat CIB
• Regular Show: The Best DVD in the Universe
• AMC Walking Dead playing cards NIB (NY Comic Con promo)
• Avengers: Infinity War Moviebill
• 2x Madonna CDs
• Trial of the Clone - A modern CYOA style book
• Three Word Phrase Volume One
• Little Red Book Complete Street Guide to New York City
• 2 1932 Olympic stamps
• Dolce and Gabanna Intenso leather bag new, open box
• Vintage Academy Broadway Duffel Bag
• Mark McGwire 62nd Home Run Gold card

WANT

Would really like to pick up a Super Mario Maker 2DS console either CIB or loose with stylus
I also need cover art and manual for The Messenger on Switch, in case anyone snagged the cover art and manual extras that were on sale from SLG recently.
Pre-order bonuses

• ACNH GameStop Poster
• ACNH Target Journal
• Fire Emblem 3 Houses pin set
• Link’s Awakening HD GameStop Poster
• Link’s Awakening HD Pin Set
• Puyo Puyo Tetris Target exclusive decals
• Yoshi’s Crafted World frame

AC Amiibo Cards

• #107 Katie

Mario Sports Amiibo Cards

• Peach Golf
• Bowser Jr. Soccer
• Rosalina Soccer
• Rosalina Baseball
• Rosalina Horse Racing

Amiibo

• Poochy (loose)
• Goomba (loose)
• Boo (loose)

LRG Cards
Cards for Flinthook, Dust, Slime San, Shantae and the Pirate's Curse, ToeJam and Earl, Golf Story, Dragon's Lair Trilogy, PixelJunk Monsters 2, Lumines Remastered, Yooka-Laylee, Blazing Chrome, Battle Chef, Windjammers, The Escapists and Saturday Morning RPG
Limited Print Switch Games (prefer CIB but also fine with NIB)

• Bridge Constructor Portal
• Bud Spencer and Terence Hill: Slaps and Beans
• Dimension Drive (LE or standard)
• Duck Game
• Fox n Forests
• Furi
• Gorogoa
• Gris
• Ms. Splosion Man
• Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid
• Puyo Puyo Tetris big box contents with target exclusive decals or CIB
• RXN Raijin
• The Messenger cover art and manual or CIB (already have but looking for a nicer copy)
• Timespinner
• Transistor

Other Switch Games (looking for CIB and clean)

• 1-2 Switch
• Astral Chain
• PENDING Atari Flashback Classics
• Axiom Verge
• Disgaea 1 Complete
• Dusk Diver Day 1 Edition
• Hollow Knight box or CIB (already have but looking for a nicer box)
• I am Setsuna
• Little Town Hero Big Idea Edition
• Mario and Sonic at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
• Moonlighter
• Ninja Saviors
• Octopath Traveler
• Overcooked Special Edition or double pack
• Phoenix Wright Trilogy (JP)
• Snack World: The Dungeon Crawl Gold
• Space Invaders Invincible Collection (JP)
• Super Mario Maker 2 stylus
• Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late[Cl-R]
• Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna the Golden Country with unused DLC code or NIB
• Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Lair
• Yoshi's Crafted World
• WRC 8

3DS Games

• Beyblade Collector's Edition - CIB or NIB
• Bravely Default - CIB
• Cooking Mama 5 - CIB
• Cooking Mama Sweet Shop - CIB
• Etrian Odyssey Untold soundtrack bundle - CIB
• Etrian Odyssey Nexus launch edition - CIB
• Frogger 3D - CIB big box version with cover plates
• LEGO Chima Laval's Journey - CIB big box with minifigure
• Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright - CIB
• Radiant Historia Perfect Chronology launch edition - big box with contents or CIB
• Style Savvy Fashion Forward - CIB

DS

• Bomberman Land Touch 2 - CIB
• Elektroplankton - Nintendo Power booklet
• Infinite Space - loose
• Jewel Time Deluxe - box, manual
• Korg DS10+ JP Limited Edition - CIB
• Korg M01 JP - Club Nintendo insert
• Nanostray - CIB
• Phantasy Star 0 - CIB
• Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney games (except Trials and Tribulations) - CIB
• Shepherd's Crossing 2 - CIB
• Space Invaders Extreme - CIB

GBA

• Car Battler Joe - manual
• Drill Dozer - A Girl and Her Dozer Mini Comic (the one I have is ripped)
• Fire Emblem - CIB
• Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones - CIB

GBC

• Metal Gear Solid - box, manual, inserts
• Shantae - CIB
• The Legend of the River King 2 - CIB
• The Legend of Zelda Oracle of Seasons and Ages - CIB

GB

• Kirby's Dreamland 2 - CIB
• Mario's Picross - manual

Wii

• Babysitting Mama - CIB or NIB bassinet bundle
• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - CIB
• The Last Story - soundtrack in sleeve

GameCube

• Army Men Air Combat the Elite Missions - box
• Baten Kaitos Origins - CIB
• Doshin the Giant (PAL) - CIB
• Mega Man Network Transmission - CIB
• Mega Man X Command Mission - CIB with trading card
• Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 and 2 Plus - CIB
• Smashing Drive - CIB
• Smuggler's Run War Zones - CIB
• Viewtiful Joe Red Hot Rumble - CIB

N64

• N64 Expansion Pack with tool to open expansion slot, or Donkey Kong 64 box, tray, manual, etc with expansion pack included
• Hey You Pikachu! - box, tray, manual, etc. (I already have the game, mic and voice unit)
• Star Fox 64 box, tray, manual, etc. (I already have game and rumble pack)

PS3

• Boku no Natsuyasumi 3 (JP) - CIB
• Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness - disc
• Railfan: Taiwan High Speed Rail Asian version with English subtitles - CIB

PS2

• Godzilla Save the Earth - CIB
• Gradius 3 and 4 - CIB
• Naval Ops Warship Gunner - manual
• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 - black label disc
• River King a Wonderful Journey - disc

PSX

• Army Men: World War - disc only
• Konami Justifier Lightgun(s)
• Official mouse - loose or CIB

NGPC
If anyone has a Neo Geo Pocket Color and/or games for it, I'm interested...
Strategy Guides

• Gotcha Force
• The Legend of Zelda Oracle of Ages / Seasons Nintendo Power

I'm also happy to look at lists, but these are my priority wants.

These days, the only thing more popular than tinder itself is complaining about tinder. Women complain that they can't find good guys on there, only fuckbois and deadbeats, and men sign up, get one match in 6 months and wonder "where are all da ho's at?!" It seems neither sex is happy with online dating.
And yet, the Match Group (Tinder's parent), is on track to exceed $2 Billion in revenue this year. Clearly, they're doing something right. And men and women, despite all their bellyaching, are ponying up big cash to use the app. What gives?
They key is to understand *why* OLD sucks: they suck at doing what they say they're going to do for you, and excel at doing what you really want them to do. Hence, you complain in public, while still swiping like an addicted monkey in private.
Here is what OLD *says* they're going to do: they're going to help you meet The One: your soulmate, your spouse, your partner-in-crime, ride-or-die, yadda yadda yadda. Here's what they really do: they preserve and feed your fantasy of who that soulmate actually is, tantalize you with the possibility that that soulmate is just barely, almost, oh-so-close to being yours, and hide any sort of hard truths about relationships and people that gets in the way of your delusions. And then, you pay them for helping keep your delusions alive, while publicly complaining that they're not helping you make those delusions become reality.
BTW, this is not a secret that only Tinder knows. It's called marketing 101. A beer commercial is ostensibly about selling you a nice tasting beverage that you enjoy drinking. Yet the commercials have bikini clad women surrounding the beer drinkers while they lounge around on a beach. A pickup truck is ostensibly a practical vehicle used by people who need to haul stuff around all day. Yet their commercials are all about exploring the great outdoors and tearing up trails in forests and mountains. And most of them are bought by people who'll never haul more than a "Just Married" sign and will never drive on anything more off-road than a highway with a few potholes on it.
So how does this marketing delusion work in online dating? To explore that, we have to first analyze how people found relationships before online dating. At that time, you relied pretty exclusively on your social network, e.g. friends, family, co-workers, church, and other social networks you were in. Unlike Tinder, these social networks really *do* want to see you happy and in a stable relationship (generally speaking; and yes, they may be bad at it, but most of the time, their heart is in the right place). This is for several reasons:

1. They care about you and genuinely want to see you happy
2. Since you're a member of their social network, it actually helps everyone else if you're stable and happy, and not miserable and always needing support from the social network rather than contributing back
3. Conversely, if someone sets you up with a horrible person (or even a very mismatched person), they will face repercussions from you and everyone else when the relationship inevitably blows up. You can't sue Tinder for a date gone wrong. But you can certainly disown your friends if they set you up with a serial killer. IOW, the social network can bite back if you willfully mess things up.

Additionally, your social networks know a lot about you and (usually) a lot about the people they're matching you with. Which means they can often see through your own BS (in the way that good friends and close family usually can), and find good matches for you that you would never have considered yourself.
This system has worked for thousands if not millions of years. And most notably, OLD has none of the advantages listed above. Yet OLD has been incredibly successful and pretty much completely replaced the IRL social networks of the past. We even pay them to do what our social networks used to do for free. Why is that?
Because the mortal weakness of your IRL social networks is this: since they're not in the marketing business, they tell you hard truths you don't want to hear. I'll give you an example. When I was in my early thirties (pre-tinder), one of of my co-workers, also in her early thirties, was telling me about a date her friends had set her up with. Apparently it was a mid-forties man, balding, divorced, with a kid. She was in shock the next day. Not so much about the guy, who was nice enough. But that her friends thought that was her appropriate match. In her mind, she was still the mid-twenties hot young thing who would get cat-called in the bars. More than the guy himself, just the idea that now she was only fit for older, frumpy, divorced dads, and that furthermore *that was what her friends thought*, was too much for her to bear. But her social networks were doing the right thing. They didn't want to see her end up single and alone in 10 years. And regardless of whether that guy was the absolute best she could do, they saw her relationship value far more clearly than she did. They were a lot closer in their estimates of her value than she was.
In contrast, Tinder will happily whisper lies in your ear all day as long as you pay it to do so. In fact, for them, it's a *failure* if you find your perfect partner and ride off into the sunset, because that means you'll soon delete their app. Let me repeat that: Tinder does not want you to get married. It doesn't even want you to find someone for a year. If all of their customers found a mate within a month of being on the app, and then not check the app again for a lifetime or even a year, they'd run out of customers and go out of business. And their profits are far more important to them than your happiness.
So what are these lies?
1.
(If you're a woman), your perfect match is a billionaire convict outlaw church-going surgeon who cries during weddings. Also has 6-pack abs and a footlong. (If you're a man), your perfect match is a Victoria's Secret Angel madonna in public, whore in bed, who does yoga 6 hours a day and gets wet just thinking about your mastery of obscure Star Wars trivia. Also has no problem blowing you in public.
Yeah, neither of these people exist. Your friends will tell you that. But Tinder never will. Not only will it never tell you that, it actively encourages everyone to lie and puff themselves up into those fantasy matches. A guy who insists on talking about his "amazing trip to Machu Pichu" 5 years after he went is considered a blowhard in real life. On Tinder, that's the picture he uses to make his life seem more exciting than it really is. Every person on Tinder is trying to convince you that they are that billionaire convict, or that yoga-addicted underwear model. Your IRL social network would weed out the phonies real quick. Tinder prefers to bump them up in your queue.
2.
That man / woman of your dreams is just a swipe away. Who knows? They could even be the very next swipe! So just... flick your finger... one more time... Even if the people above actually exist, very, very few people can even meet them in real life. That billionaire dude doesn't hang out at Applebee's. Just getting into the restaurants / hotels / vacation resorts he stays at in order to run into him requires knowledge, money, and enough time spent studying the subtle class markers of the ultra-rich that you can pass yourself off as one of them. Similarly, just meeting a Victoria's Secret model requires running in their social circles, which typically means you're either a rich person, in the fashion and entertainment industry, or at least live in NY / LA and are willing to blow huge amounts of money on bribing the bouncers and hosts to let you into the closed clubs they hang out in. If you're really, really lucky, you might score a date because you're neighbors with their grandmother back in Kansas and she somehow convinces her granddaughter to give the nice neighborhood boy a chance when she's back home for Christmas and bored out of her skull. And even that's not as easy as a quick swipe, is it?
Everyone knows that to make a million dollars, you need to study hard, get into a good career, work your ass off, have a little luck, etc. Just like how your friends will tell you that to get a good girl, you need to work hard, lift, be sociable, and overall become a desirable guy. Tinder is the equivalent of the casino slot machine, which tempts you that that million dollar prize is just a dollar and a quick pull away. Similarly, Tinder tells you that dream guy/girl is just a quick swipe away. At least casinos are legally required to list the actual probability you have of winning that prize. Tinder doesn't even do that.
3.
Even if your perfect match exists, and you end up meeting them, you will often find out, much to your disappointment, that they're not a great match for you. There's a great saying: "behind every beautiful woman, there's a guy tired of fucking her." That glossy exterior image is often radically different than the inside. Every guy who has dated at least a few incredibly hot women will tell you that many of them (though not all!) are not worth the hassle. It may not even be that the other person is a "bad" person. Even a good person from a radically different environment can be a bad match. For example, if you can't name at least 5 different forks and which foods to use them with, and you think being a foodie means using A1 steak sauce instead of ketchup, then you probably won't even enjoy that 3-star meal your billionaire boyfriend buys you in Paris, while he will look on in disgust at your local hometown's "world famous" hamburger you buy him.
Birds of a feather flock together. Your social network is comprised of people who are similar to you in many aspects of your life, which makes it very difficult to find people radically different in life experience / values / outlooks than yourself. Which is actually a *good* thing because people from radically different walks of life tend not to be compatible enough to build a life together. Again, say somehow through Tinder you score a date with your movie actress celebrity crush. What would you actually talk about? Do you know anything about the movie business? Could you relate to her insecurities and what she deals with going on auditions every day where random strangers tell her she's too fat / too blonde / not blonde enough / too flat-chested / too busty to ever make it in this town? Heck, forget all that: do you even know what's a fun date thing to do in LA outside of the tourist traps that locals can't stand? Conversely, what's the chance she knows anything about your life? Is there any shared experience between you two that could form the basis for a real relationship?
Again, IRL social networks know this, because they generally know both people well, and have a good sense of who's a good match for whom. There have been plenty of times when I asked my friends about a hot girl I saw at a party, and they warn me off, telling me "dude, stay away from her. She's smoking hot, but batshit crazy." Or conversely, seat me next to someone I might never have noticed, who ends up being a great person that I want to spend more time with. Tinder doesn't ever do this. If you swipe right on someone their algorithm tells them will only lead you to misery, does it ever flash a big warning sign "Caution: Do you really want to date this loser?". Of course not. It only wants to feed whatever notion of a "perfect match" you already have. And if you think a recently paroled ex-felon is your perfect match, then that's perfectly fine with them. Don't think for a second that Tinder doesn't know that 90% of a match is based on looking at the first few photographs. It doesn't care. There's a reason Tinder is more popular than eHarmony. People don't want to be told who their best match really is (often because who your match is usually reflects who *you* are...). People dream of their soul mate since they're kids. The last thing they want is someone who pours cold water all over that dream. And if your soul mate is someone from your neighborhood that went to your high school or plays softball with your friends, then you don't need Tinder to meet them. So unless Tinder can feed your fantasy that your best life partner is someone totally outside of all your social networks (a ludicrous proposition when you consider it on its merits), someone only Tinder can hook you up with, it won't be able to convince you to trust Tinder over your IRL social networks.
4.
There's an old saying: if at first you don't succeed, redefine success. Tinder has redefined success in the relationship world to "getting a match from someone." In the real world, it never mattered how many "matches" you got. There wasn't even a concept of that. It only mattered if you eventually found someone to spend your life with. When your friends set you up and you two decide after a couple of dates that it's not going to work out, your friends usually consider that a failure, because their goal is to help you get into a relationship, not just to go on a single date. Tinder's standards for success are much lower.
Of course, Tinder has been helped in this regard by the slut-pride movement that states the marker of a woman's success and worth is the number of dicks she's had inside her, rather than the quality of the man she actually ends up with. But Tinder's measure of success is even shallower. They consider it a success if you "match" even if that never even leads to a meeting in real life. More importantly, they've convinced *us* that the app was successful if it "matched" you with someone, regardless of whether that match went anywhere. It's instructive to see women write in their Tinder bios that they're "sick of fuckbois, not looking for hookups," etc. Yes, they're stupid because they're on a hookup app saying these things, but the amazing thing is, they don't blame the app itself, they blame the people on it. Because Tinder has redefined success in OLD as getting a match. Everything else is the responsibility of the person they matched you with, even if Tinder is the one that made the match on shoddy criteria that were destined to fail. In the early days of OLD, dating sites used to advertise the number of marriages that occurred from their site. You'll notice no one does that now. Because they realized marriages are bad for business, but to avoid the dearth of marriages being viewed as a product failure, they had to redefine success and make you accept the new definition as merely being "matched". Which we have.
5.
Let's say you make it through all of this. Your dream mate actually exists. He / She actually happens to be on Tinder and both of you somehow decide to swipe on each other. Then you navigate the minefield of messages / texting / phone calls until you finally manage to get coffee together. And despite your dream match being a ski instructor from Switzerland who only speaks French, while you've never made it past your high school Spanish classes and haven't traveled outside of your state, you realize he shares your passion for watching Kim Kardashian on E!. The final question: why do you think he'd be interested in you? We laugh at the women featured on WAATGM who are all looking for some incredibly desirable guy while offering nothing of value themselves. But we all fall into that delusion, and Tinder feeds that. Once they've redefined success as getting a match, something that can even happen on accident (oops! I meant to swipe left! Crap!), then you feel like someone actually likes you if they match you. Again, we laugh at instagram ho's who define their life's worth by the number of likes their ass shots get. We wonder if they ever consider that 90% of those likes are from thirsty dudes in India and Saudi Arabia that they would never even touch with a 10-foot pole. And yet, if you get a "match" from some hot girl, even if she unmatches you right away, or after a couple of text messages, we take that as a sign that, "if a girl that hot matched with me, then surely one of them will actually go on a date with me soon!" And you keep swiping. We criticize women who think that just because some dude had a one night stand with her, that she's close to getting a relationship with him. And yet Tinder has convinced us that just because we occasionally get a match with a random hot guy/girl that if we keep swiping, eventually one of those matches will turn into a real date which will turn into a steady relationship, which will turn into...all your dreams coming true! But just like a fuckboi is only into fucking you, Tinder is only into getting you "matches". It has no interest in things proceeding further, and its algorithms are not designed to help their matches do so. Indeed, just like a fuckboi hopes you don't actually find a real relationship since then you might cut him off, Tinder hopes that match doesn't lead to anything beyond a one night stand, because otherwise, you might delete their app.
Needless to say, IRL social networks are very aware of this. Which is why sometimes they tell you a hard truth like, "dude, don't bother. That girl is way out of your league. She only dates football players." Because the last thing they want to see is you getting shot down unnecessarily.
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So back to my co-worker, the 30 year old who got setup with a 45 year old divorced dad by her friends. Her friends knew she was finally looking for a serious relationship (she probably told them she was "tired of fuckbois" or whatever they were called back then :-), so they eliminated all the players and even the potentially good guys who weren't ready to settle down yet. Then they waded through whatever BS checklists she had and tried to figure out what was truly important and what wasn't, then eliminated guys who didn't at least have the important stuff. Then they eliminated people that had nothing in common with her, or who wouldn't be a good match for her personality. Lastly, there were probably a few amazing guys that checked all her boxes, but who her friends knew were way out of her league and were probably dating younger, hotter girls. And they eliminated them so that my co-worker wouldn't get her heart broken when (after sleeping with her) they decide she's not up to their standards for an LTR. Finally, after all that weeding out, they figured maybe this 45 year old divorced dad, who may not have all his hair or 6-pack abs but was still a good guy who was genuinely interested in settling down, and was still young enough to be willing to have kids with a new wife, and who was at the peak of his career and could provide a good life for her and any future family, is not such a bad match for her. But all she could see was that accepting him would mean she was no longer that hot girl at the club that all the guys would buy drinks for and she wasn't ready to do that yet.
At that point, if Tinder existed, she probably would have gone on the app, started swiping left and right, get quick reassurance that indeed, she was still that hot girl thanks to all the matches she got from hot guys in random towns 50 miles away, none of whom she'd actually ever meet, reject her friends' advice and trust Tinder instead. Later that night, when she was lonely and wondering if she'd every find a guy to love her, she'd still reject calling that 45 year old guy, who would have taken her out to dinner and maybe even found a lot of common ground and shared experience despite their age difference. Instead, she'd swipe right on a random guy who Tinder selected for her mainly based on the fact that he was within her listed age range and was only 1 mile away (even if he was only a tourist visiting from Australia for 3 days), since that's the only real piece of data Tinder actually has on anyone. And she'd fuck him that night. He'd leave before she wakes up, to get to the airport and fly home halfway around the world. And in the morning, waking up to an empty bed, she'd blame a) the guy for skipping out, even though she knew he's from Australia; b) the 45 year old dude for not being younger / hotter / fashionable enough to give her the tingles; c) her friends for thinking he was in her league; d) the entire world for being cruel and leaving her single and unhappy despite being such a great catch. IOW, she'd blame every thing out there, except the one thing that actually was preventing her from doing the work and making the sorts of compromises and decisions necessary to find and keep a long-term, happy relationship. Nope. Far from blaming Tinder, she opens her phone, starts up the app again, and goes through the swiping drill again, hoping that this time, finally, she hits that jackpot the app keeps telling her is right around the corner...
All of a sudden, Tinder making $2 billion doesn't seem so far fetched, does it?

As a Yankee fan, if you have not watched Brian Cashmans' end of the season press conference, you are doing yourself a major disservice because it is very enlightening.
I cannot recall a media interaction in recent years that more clearly demonstrates the dangerous arrogance and stubbornness of the modern Yankee organization than this press conference. It was almost megalomaniacal.
In particular,the interaction between WFAN New Yorks' Yankee beat reporter, Sweeny Murti, and Brian Cashman that illuminates the defensive, combative stance the Yankee organization has taken towards its' own fanbase in regards to spending.
First of all, major kudos to Sweeny Murti. If you want to talk about the media speaking truth to power (in a baseball context of course), he was asking questions that the self-censorious Yankee media lap-dogs wouldn't dare direct at a man that some have laughably deemed, "the Cashgod."
In this tense moment, it became clear that Cashman is in fact not, "the Cashgod." A “Cashgod” would not allow the Yankees to go through a 19 year stretch where they have as many championships as they do plagues of locusts.
Before we shatter the dogma, let's refresh ourselves on the transcript of the interaction from the press conference.
{TRANSCRIPT}
Sweeny: There are several starting pitchers over the last few years that you passed on, that are in the World Series right now...
Cashman: I didn't pass on them.
Sweeny: You didn't?
Cashman: No. I didn't pass on them.
Sweeny: How would you charactorize it?
Cashman: Well, I guess... why would you charactorize it as passing on them?
Sweeny: Were there opportunities to get some of these guys?
Cashman: Give me some specifics.
Sweeny: Justin Verlander. Gerrit Cole. Patrick Corbin.
Cashman: Justin Verlander was a player two or three years ago that was in play, and if you recall, the payroll structure that we were under, he was not going to fit in our environment given the directives from above. And that’s not blaming ownership on that aspect at all. But we had overspent to a level to where we were going to be under our payroll, and their ultimate goal was to get out from luxury tax issues where we were rewarding our opponents.
Sweeny: So you wouldn't categorize that as passing?
Cashman: So Verlander was not someone that was in play because of those protocols that were in place. So that’s one. But that question has been answered several times over.
Sweeny: It's semantics then as far as what we're describing why they're not..
Cashman: Well when we're talking about Patrick Corbin, did we not make an offer? Yes or no?
Sweeny: You tell me.
Cashman: You know the answer….. Do you not know the answer?
Sweeny: I was told no. Did you make an offer?
Cashman: We made an offer to Patrick Corbin. The Nationals made a more significant offer to Patrick Corbin. I don't know who told you no, that would be false.
Sweeny: So has Hal or anyone...
Cashman: So would you categorize that as a pass?
Sweeny: I would categorize it as we're arguing semantics and they're currently not here. But my question is..
Cashman: And Gerrit Cole was traded from Pittsburgh to Houston. Did we make an offer to Pittsburgh for Gerrit Cole, yes or no?
Sweeny: Yes.
Cashman: OK, did that mean we passed on him?
Sweeny: You didn’t increase your offer enough to get him, did you?
Cashman: Houston made an offer that in Pittsburgh’s mind was a better offer than ours. This is all ancient history, but these are all facts. But that doesn't mean we passed on anything. We made attempts to try to acquire.
Sweeny: My question to you is, has Hal expressed any regrets over any of these decisions that did not go in your favor over the course of the last couple years and or do you regret anything?
Cashman: I don't regret our process. And there are certain things in that process that are controlled and some things that are out of our control in terms of knowledge. I have no knowledge in free agency of what an opposing team is offering until ultimately it comes out after the signing is elsewhere. So whether it's Dallas Keuchel this summer or Patrick Corbin this past winter, obviously it’s illegal to be calling the other clubs to find out what they're offering. So you don't know until then.
In the Keuchel situation, for instance which you didn't bring up, I used the line of, “we missed out by the hair of our chinny-chin-chin.” It was a very close number from where our offer was, but how would I know that? So, you put your best foot forward you live with it. I have no regrets if we have a strong process and we put our best foot forward based on a lot of pressure points, and then you live with it.
So am I living with that? I’m living with that. Am I comfortable with every decision and everything that we went through in our process? I think we have a strong healthy process that leads us to make whatever offers we’re making at the time for good reason and something we can be comfortable with.
You don’t get everything you want at all times, but I think what we’ve done is do a lot of great things along the way. I can sleep at night with the process that we have in place. It’s served us well and put us in a position to take a legitimate shot at the championship so far in the more recent years. And that’s despite some of the options that went elsewhere.
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Did Brian Cashman have a Freudian slip when he said that the ultimate goal in 2017 was to "get under the luxury tax?" This was the directive handed down from ownership? Try to imagine, for even a millisecond, George Steinbrenner dubbing luxury tax management his "ultimate goal." Try to imagine the Boss allowing Cashman to even put that narrative out there for the fanbase to consume. Having trouble picturing something so perverted? That's because the Boss would never do that.
The modern Yankee organization has gotten comfortable ignoring and even shaming their constituents. They are upset that the fans want a championship at any cost. This is not a cost they are willing to incur because they are not as passionate about being champions as George was. However, they are "savvy" enough to recognize that in order to protect their bottom line, they must act as though they are desperate for a championship. They understand that if they can create a believable enough charade, Yankee fans will by-and-large drink the Kool-Aid and leave coins in the collection basket.
Everyday we resemble Mets fans or Knicks fans more and more. We are case studies in Stockholm Syndrome. We are so addicted to the cache of being Yankee fans; the history, the winning, the core four, the tradition, the Bronx NY, that we have no actual leverage over the organization to voice our discontent and get them to put their money where their mouth is, so they don't. They know the overwhelming majority will continue to show up at the gate, watch the YES Network, collect the jerseys and consume the content online regardless of how dismissive and abusive the organization may be towards the fanbase. In this case, we were represented by Sweeny, and they showed you exactly how they feel about people who question them.
To be clear; the "Cashgod" is comfortable with the process because it has put them, "in a position to take a legitimate shot," at a championship.
In any other area of the real world, would being, "in a position to take a legitimate shot" at success, and then repeatedly failing be something management is comfortable with? Does that jive with the Yankee winning tradition?
Organizations that are comfortable with their process and aren't successful end up like Blockbuster video. On the flipside, on the winning side, forward-thinking organizations that are adopting varying viewpoints and practices to disrupt the marketplace are the ones who last. You will likely be able to watch a Blockbuster documentary about how they collapsed on a streaming service one day.
Brian Cashman was so sensitive to a differing perspective that he fought vigorously with a reporter over the use of the phrase, "passed on." Can you imagine how dictatorial Cashman must be towards dissenters within his own ranks behind closed doors?
This doesn't resemble a "god" at all. If anything, it resembles a caricature of God in the story of Job from the old testament.
Summary: Job was an ardent worshipper. He also had a great life. God was pretty happy with Job. The devil made a bet with God that even his most loyal follower would turn on him if He punished Job with disease, death and overall misery. God took the bet. God then methodically destroyed every good thing Job had going for him. Eventually after every horrible affliction you can possibly imagine befell Job and his family, he asked God why this happened to him. In other words, he questioned God. The Devil won the bet. God appeared and spoke to Job and blasted him for having the audacity to dare question Him. Job apologized.
Obviously, this is a gross oversimplification of a biblical story, but Cashman more closely resembles this vindictive lord than he does any sort of all-knowing all-capable loving force. He's more of an old-testament type, yet at the same time he is abandoning the Yankee tradition and going all new testament with analytics and fiscal conservatism. In other words, he has the wrath of old-testament God and he won't die for his sins. Does that sound like a "Cashgod" to you?
We don't own the Yankees, the owners can do whatever they choose. But you better believe we bear an extreme fiscal burden everytime we go to a Yankee game. If I can pay $45 to park, or $13 for a beer, or $162 for a decent seat on a fairly laid back regular season game on my measly salary, I do not want to hear the billionaire-owned Yankee organization complain to me about their expenses. As a consumer, it's my right to tell them to go take a walk if I don't like their product or the cost.
We are not paying for a “legitimate shot” at a championship. Chances don't cost $200+ a night unless I'm at Empire City Casino, and at least there I know I'm going to lose before the night even starts. If a "chance" is what the Yankees are trafficking in, then charge us the same cost that the Tampa Bay Rays charge their fans. They just want a shot at winning too.
This isn't broadway. We're not here for tragedy. When we dish out money for a play in Manhattan, there is a mutual understanding. We are consenting to having our hearts broken. Show me the human condition, warts and all. Make us laugh. Make us cry.
That's not why we overpay to go to Yankee games. We're not here for theater. We are paying the highest prices in baseball because the Yankee brand is winning. We are paying for victory. We are paying for a dynasty, for a tradition of dominance. There is an understanding between Yankee fans that we will pay any price for baseball divinity.
Divinity is perfection. Divinity is all-knowing. All-encompassing. Omniscient. Omnipresent. Omnipotent. If the Yankee roster is Cashmans' creation, Cashman is an imperfect creator.
The "Cashgod" does not have the power of the wallet. Nor is he present on the big-ticket free-agent market. He does not have the knowledge necessary to be the disrupting force in the game of baseball. That credit goes to organizations like the Athletics, who started the Sabermetrics movement with “money ball.” Or the Royals, who won a World Series with a bullpen. Or the Rays, who started the "opener" trend. Or the Red Sox, who spread their money throughout free agency in 2013 rather than going after the big names. Or the Astros, with their sign-stealing operations. The Yankees are copying, not creating. Worst of all, they're not even replicating the success of the innovators. Unless of course you consider the Rays a success. Funny coincidence, the Rays are a Tampa Bay team, and that's where the Steinbrenners reside. Home is where the heart is, as they say.
Perhaps there was a scaithing viciousness in the old testament God. Such brutality can wear on even the most devout believer. However, in the ultimate display of compassion and egalitarianism, the new testament God sent His own son, who was actually a part of He Himself in human form, to die brutally and unceremoniously for the sins of all men.
In that moment on the cross, even Jesus Himself questioned God, just as Job did. He asked, "Why have you forsaken me?" At least us mere mortals had the vindication of knowing that God gets it.
The false, "Cashgod" and his "heavenly" owners feel no remorse punishing us with high prices and losing teams because they know that Yankee fans are little more than religious zealots. We will recite the doctrine like scripture and we will kneel before the altar of the Bronx. Step out of the orthodoxy and be burned at the stake. Sweeny Murti for a moment became a blasphemer, invoking the ancient tradition of the old-Yankee commandment, “thou shall not let the best players go to rivals,” and the Yankees were eager to strike him down with lightning. In their warped, revisionist covenant, Sweeny had sinned and must enter a confessional booth to repent.
Only so many heretics may be disposed of before the "Cashgod" is revealed as human. Flawed, capable of and prone to making poor decisions. Failing with regularity. Petulant. Unwavering. Dishonest. With Cashman, there have not been any miracles. He has been unable to turn water to wine. He descends into the river when he tries to walk across it. He refuses to be questioned and will not denounce his falsehoods and self-righteousness. We Romans are gathered at his Coliseum for one reason and one reason only. Not for entertainment, but victory. When we do not have it we demand it. Yet the almighty, "Cashgod" talks down to us.
Enough.
In 2020 A.D., if he does not secure the ultimate victory, he will be dragged before Pontius Pilot.
If you are indeed the “Cashgod,” then this is your cross to bear.

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…
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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

Trying to get some trades in before Coronavirus shuts down the USPS and Kevin Costner's The Postman becomes our reality. I have 80 confirmed trades. Also, fair warning, these lists are long, I have a lot of stuff for trade! Looking to do fair value but where I have an item that is worn / in poor shape I value that lower than eBay averages due to condition.
p.s. "CIB" means including all the booklets and such that were supposed to come in there, otherwise I will clarify what is included. "NIB" means New In Box, aka sealed, "brand new," in the shrink, etc.

HAVE

Switch games and accessories

• Celeste CE - NIB, hard trade
• Cosmic Star Heroine - NIB
• Danmaku Unlimited 3 - NIB with card
• Downwell - NIB
• Gekido Kintaro’s Revenge - CIB
• Mutant Mudds Collection - CIB (crease on slipcover) with loose cards
• PixelJunk Monsters 2 - NIB
• Rive - SRG trading pack only
• Snake Pass - SRG trading pack only
• Splasher - NIB
• The Adventure Pals - NIB with sealed cards
• The Darkside Detective - NIB with sealed cards, hard trade
• PowerA Premium Game Card Case red Super Mario M - NIB and authentic
• PowerA game card case black Zelda Z - loose, knock-off :(

Wii U

• Assassin's Creed III - NIB
• NintendoLand - box, manual and booklets only
• Runbow Deluxe Edition - NIB or CIB (willing to trade one of these)
• Shovel Knight - NIB, hard trade

Wii games and accessories

• ABC Wipeout 2 - CIB
• Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 - NIB
• Gallop and Ride! - CIB
• Game Party - CIB
• Ghost Squad - CIB
• Ghostbusters the Video Game - NIB
• Hello Kitty Seasons - CIB
• Link's Crossbow Training - disc and manual in cardboard sleeve
• M. Knight Shamalayan's The Last Airbender - CIB
• MLB Power Pros 2008 - CIB
• NCIS - CIB
• PBR Out of the Chute - CIB
• Petz Horse Club - CIB
• Petz Sports - CIB
• Press Your Luck 2010 Edition - CIB
• Shaun White Snowboarding Road Trip - CIB
• Super Paper Mario - box and manual only
• Vegas Party - CIB
• Victorious Boxers Revolution - CIB
• Walk it Out! - NIB
• Wii Fit Plus - CIB (no balance board)
• Zhu Zhu Pets Featuring the Wild Bunch - CIB
• Big Town Shootout 2 Blasters big box - NIB (game download no longer works) (these blasters are attachments for Wiimotes to make them into pistols, great accessory IMO)

GameCube games and accessories

• Army Men Air Combat The Elite Missions - game and manual only
• Hunter the Reckoning - CIB, hard trade
• Lego Star Wars - CIB
• Lego Star Wars II - CIB
• NBA Courtside 2002 - CIB, has wear
• NCAA Football 2003 - CIB
• Robotech Battlecry - CIB
• Scooby Doo Mystery Mayhem - CIB, hard trade
• Superman Shadow of Apokolips - CIB, also have a Nintendo Power poster to go with it
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - manual only
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 - CIB
• Orange Spice original controller - loose, hard trade
• Action Replay - manual only

N64 booklets
Most of these have wear

• 1080 Snowboarding - manual and operations card
• Army Men Air Combat - manual
• Banjo Kazooie - manual (wrinkled)
• Banjo Tooie - manual
• Battletanx Global Assault - manual (wrinkled)
• Bomberman 64 - manual
• Buck Bumble - manual
• Diddy Kong Racing - manual, operations card
• Donkey Kong 64 - manual
• Extreme-G - manual
• Goldeneye 007 - manual
• Kirby 64 - manual
• Mario Kart 64 - manual, operations card and player's guide offer booklet
• Mario Party 2 - manual
• Mario Tennis - manual
• Rugrats Scavenger Hunt - manual
• Star Wars Episode 1 Battle for Naboo - manual (has marker on top right)
• Super Mario 64 - manual
• Yoshi's Story - manual and operations card
• Zelda Ocarina of Time - manual

NES games and accessories
Pictures of most items here

• Original game pad
• Original orange zapper
• Blaster Master - game only
• Casino Kid - game only
• Dr Mario - game only
• RC Pro Am - game only
• Star Tropics - CIB, letter is still attached to manual!
• Star Tropics 2 Zoda's Revenge - CIB
• Super Mario Bros / Duck Hunt - game only
• The King of Kings (Wisdom Tree) - manual
• Tiger Heli - game only

3DS games and accessories

• Brain Age Concentration Training - box, manual (cover art has a small tear on back)
• Legend of Legacy big box launch edition - CIB, very hard trade
• Legend of Zelda Triforce Heroes - NIB
• Poochy and Yoshi's Woolly World EU region big box only (can hold both game and Poochy amiibo)
• Puzzler 3D World 2012 - CIB
• Puzzler Mind Gym 3D - CIB
• Tomodachi Life - manual
• OEM charger
• Operations manual and other inserts (no AR cards) for launch model 3DS in bag
• 2DS XL quick start guide
• Nyko Game Boost power attachment for launch model 3DS - NIB, some box damage

DS games and more

• Chrono Trigger - box, manual, all inserts including the poster
• Dragon Quest Heroes Rocket Slime - box, manual, all inserts
• Fossil League Dino Tournament Championship - CIB
• Hamsterz Life - CIB
• Go Diego Go Great Dinosaur Rescue - CIB
• Junior Brain Trainer - CIB
• Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games - manual, all inserts
• Metroid Prime Pinball - box, manual, health and safety insert (cover art says Rumble Pak included but there is no Rumble Pak)
• Rune Factory - box, manual, all inserts
• Scribblenauts Unlimited - manual only
• Spongebob Squarepants Atlantis Squarepantis - NIB
• Star Fox Command - box, manual, all inserts
• Warioware DIY - box, manual, all inserts
• Yoshi's Island DS - box, manual, health and safety insert
• EMS NDS Adapter - CIB (Not the newest version, works best with Windows XP)
• Operations manual and other inserts for black DSi in bag
• Instruction booklet for launch model DS
• I also have some health and safety precautions booklets and one WiFi connection booklet

GBA

• 3rd party charger - looks like an OEM charger but isn't
• An American Tail Fievel's Gold Rush - CIB
• Atari Anniversary Advance - CIB
• Backyard Basketball - game only
• Backyard Football - game only
• Candy Land / Chutes and Ladders / Memory - CIB
• Connect Four / Perfection / Trouble - CIB
• Crash Bandicoot the Huge Adventure - game only
• Disney's Magical Quest 2 Starring Mickey and Minnie - game only
• Disney's Monsters Inc. / Finding Nemo - game only
• Donkey Kong Country - game only
• Donkey Kong Country 2 - game only
• Ecks vs Sever - game only
• Ed Edd n Eddy the Mis-Edventures - game only
• F-14 Tomcat - game only
• Garfield the Search for Pooky - CIB
• Golden Nugget Casino / Texas Hold 'Em Poker 2 in 1 value - CIB
• Madden 2003 - game only
• Mario Pinball Land - CIB
• Mario Tennis Power Tour - game only
• Medabots Rokusho Version - game only
• Monster Trucks - game only
• Muppet Pinball Mayhem - game only
• Need for Speed Underground - game only
• Pac Man Collection - game only
• Pac Man World - game only
• Pocket Dogs - CIB
• Pokemon Glazed (bootleg, clear blue cart) - game only
• Rayman Advance - game only
• Road Trip Shifting Gears - CIB
• Rugrats I Gotta Go Party - game only
• Sonic Advance 2 - game only
• Spongebob Squarepants Battle for Bikini Bottom - game only
• Spongebob Squarepants Lights Camera Pants - game only
• Spongebob Squarepants Revenge of the Flying Dutchman - game only
• Spyro 2 Season of Flame - CIB
• Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World - game only
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 - game only
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - game only
• Uno / Skip Bo - game only
• Yoshi's Topsy Turvy - CIB

GBA Video sealed titles
Pictures here

• Dragon Ball GT Volume 1
• Nickelodeon Rugrats All Grown Up! Volume 1
• Nicktoons Collection Volume 2

GBC games and more

• Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 3 - game and manual
• Croc - game only
• Game and Watch Gallery 2 - box, manual and game with repro tray
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater - game only
• Wings of Fury - CIB
• GameShark Pro - box, manual (no tray)

GB games and more

• Mint condition Game Boy Pocket silver launch model with booklets
• 4 in 1 Funpak Volume II - game only
• Baseball - box, game with repro tray
• Battleship - box, game, registration card, poster with repro tray
• Bill Elliott's Nascar Fast Tracks - box, game, manual, inserts with repro tray and original receipt from 1992
• Bo Jackson Hit and Run - game and manual
• Centipede and Millipede - box, tray, game, manual
• Cleaning Kit - box only
• Dead Heat Scramble - game only
• Desert Strike - box, manual, game, inserts with repro tray
• Donkey Kong Land - game only
• Donkey Kong Land 2 - game only
• Dr Mario - box and game with repro tray
• Face Ball 2000 - game only
• Game and Watch Gallery - box and manual with repro tray
• Ghostbusters II - game only
• Golf Player's Choice - box, manual and game with repro tray
• High Stakes Gambling - game only
• Hyper Lode Runner - game only
• James Bond 007 - game only
• Jeopardy! - box, game, manual, all inserts with repro tray
• King James Bible (Wisdom Tree) - manual
• Kirby's Pinball Land - game only
• Kwirk - game only
• Mickey's Dangerous Chase player's choice - game only
• Mole Mania - game only
• Monopoly - box, game, manual, all inserts with repro tray
• Nemesis - game only
• Paperboy - game only
• Penguin Wars - CIB
• Revenge of the Gator - game only
• Shanghai - game only
• Super Mario Land - Box, game, manual, with repro tray, game label has some wear
• Super Mario Land 2 6 Golden Coins - game only, battery is dead
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fall of the Foot Clan - game only x2
• Tetris Attack - game only
• The Chessmaster - box, game, inserts with repro tray (no manual)
• The Smurfs - game only
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - game only
• WWF Superstars 2 - box, game, manual, all inserts with repro tray
• Yoshi's Cookie - game only
• Nuby Worm Light safety instructions booklet only

SEGA Genesis games

• Clue - CIB
• Madden NFL '94 - CIB
• Mike Ditka Power Football - Cardboard box and game, box has a lot of wear
• Pat Riley Basketball - CIB, has wear
• Spider-Man - loose
• Sports Talk Baseball - CIB, has wear
• Super Battleship - CIB
• Street Fighter II Special Championship Edition - loose
• Triple Play 96 - CIB, has wear
• Unnecessary Roughness 95 - CIB, has wear
• World Series Baseball 96 - CIB, in cardboard box with registration card, has wear

PS3 games

• Battleship - NIB
• PENDING Burnout Paradise greatest hits - CIB
• Dynasty Warriors: Gundam - NIB
• Killzone 3 - NIB
• PENDING Mini Ninjas - CIB
• Uncharted 3 Drake's Deception - NIB
• WWE 12 - CIB

PS2 games
Pictures of most games here

• Ace Combat 04 greatest hits - CIB
• Alter Echo - CIB
• American Idol - CIB
• Blade II - CIB, poor condition
• Crash and Burn - CIB
• Dead to Rights - CIB, poor condition
• Dropship: United Peace Force - Box and disc
• Everblue 2 - Box and disc
• FIFA Soccer 2003 - CIB
• Final Fantasy XI Online - CIB (I have two copies, one is a double disc version)
• Gadget Racers - CIB
• Gauntlet Dark Legacy - CIB
• Godzilla Save the Earth - Box and disc
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - CIB
• Indigo Prophecy - CIB in a rental box
• IndyCar Series - CIB
• LA Rush - Box and disc, no bonus disc, case is a rental case
• Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 - CIB but disc is red label
• Pirates Legend of the Black Buccaneer - box and disc
• Pryzm Chapter One: The Dark Unicorn - CIB, poor condition
• R-Type Final - disc only
• Risk Global Domination - CIB
• RTX Red Rock - CIB, poor condition
• Rumble Racing - CIB, hard trade
• Rune: Viking Warlord - CIB
• Savage Skies - Box and disc, poor condition
• Sky Odyssey - CIB, hard trade
• Star Wars Battlefront greatest hits red label - CIB
• SOCOM II: US Navy Seals - manual only
• Supercar Street Challenge - CIB
• The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - CIB with a bonus loose DVD disc of the film
• UFC Throwdown - CIB
• We Love Katamari - CIB
• Wrath Unleashed - CIB, poor condition
• WWE Crush Hour - Box and disc
• Yanya Caballista City Skater - CIB, poor condition

PSX games
Pictures of most games here

• Crash Bandicoot 2 Cortex Strikes Back - Box, back cover art, disc (missing manual)
• Jeopardy! - CIB
• Need for Speed Hot Pursuit greatest hits green label - CIB
• Star Wars Rebel Assault II - CIB
• Tetris Plus greatest hits green label - CIB
• Wheel of Fortune greatest hits green label - CIB

Xbox

• Bruce Lee Quest of the Dragon - CIB
• Cel Damage - CIB
• Dynasty Warriors 3 - CIB
• Dynasty Warriors 5 - Box and disc
• Halo Combat Evolved Platinum Hits - CIB
• Kung Fu Chaos - Box and disc, poor condition
• Red Card 20-03 - Box and disc, poor condition

IBM Tandy

• Mario Teaches Typing big box - NIB

PC

• Cubix: Robots for Everyone - NIB
• Jimmy Neutron vs Jimmy Negatron - manual only
• Oil Tycoon - NIB

Strategy guides and gaming magazines
Pictures of most guides here

• Pokemon Black White
• Pokemon Black White Version 2 CE Hardcover
• Pokemon Colosseum (Prima)
• Pokemon Ruby Sapphire
• Super Smash Bros Brawl
• Conflict Desert Storm II (Prima)
• Mario 64 Unauthorized guide (missing front cover)
• Game Informer (Magic Legends Cover)
• Game Informer (Pokemon Sword Shield cover, the style with legendaries on front and back)
• PC Gamer (Star Trek Online)
• EGM (Year of the Portables), missing back cover

Collectibles and posters

• Ni No Kuni II Figpin "Evan" - still in box
• Hatsune Miku Funko Pop - NIB
• Club Nintendo Red Mario Hat DS carrying case - New
• Club Nintendo Super Mario Children's Book JP Exclusive - New
• 2003 Nintendo Duck Hunt Patch - New
• Poster: Monster Hunter 3 Tri 20x27"
• Poster: Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games 40x14"
• Poster: New Super Mario Bros Wii / Zelda Spirit Tracks 12x17"
• Poster set: Bravoman and Bravoman x Wonder-Momo 11x15"
• Poster: Superman Shadow of Apokolips (from Nintendo Power)

Comic Books

• Marvel - Toys R Us Limited Edition X-Men #1
• Marvel - X-Men: The Ultra Collection Jan Book 2 of 5
• Marvel - Wolverine #109
• Marvel - Wolverine #111
• Marvel - X-Force #27
• Marvel - X-Force #28
• Marvel - The Invincible Iron Man #1
• Marvel - Original Human Torch #3
• Marvel - The Thing #16
• Marvel - Daredevil #362
• Marvel - The Beast #3
• Marvel - Cable #34
• Marvel - The Secret Defenders #15
• Marvel Fanfare #2
• Marvel - X-Factor #\71
• Marvel - Wonder Man #1
• Marvel - Inhumanoids #1
• Marvel - Inhumanoids #2
• Marvel - Inhumanoids #3
• Marvel - Steelgrip Starkey #6
• Marvel - Kickers Inc #1
• Marvel - Justice 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
• Marvel - The 'Nam #14
• Marvel - The Punisher Armory #9
• Marvel - Spider-Man Storm and Power Man Battle Smokescreen!
• Marvel - Spider-Man Battles the Myth Monster
• Marvel - Spider-Man Magazine for Kids - Summer 1996, Fall 1996
• DC - Steel #1
• DC - Batman #509
• DC - Catwoman (93 Series) #4
• DC - The Green Lantern Corps #206
• DC - Hawkman #2
• DC - Tales of the Legion of Super Heroes #5
• Dark Horse - Predator Big Game #1
• Dark Horse - Jonny Quest The Real Adventures 1, 2, 3
• image - The Savage Dragon #11
• Star Wars X-Wing Rogue Squadron The Phantom Affair (book)
• Officer Snook #1

Random Stuff

• White Verizon iPhone 5S with protective case and charger
• Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 2 - Pretty sure this is unlocked, but will not work on Verizon, comes with Cyanogen OS, charging cable and dock
• GameKlip controller mount NIB - Would work great with the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, requires a PS3 (aka DS3) controller, learn more here
• Ledger Nano S Whitepaper Edition NIB
• Micro Machines Star Wars Tie Starfighter Sealed
• Holy Ghost - Static on the Wire Vinyl Like New
• ABSRDST- Boss Beats CD sealed (An EP of Mega Man remixes)
• Speed Racer: The Movie VHS CIB
• Adventure Time: Jake vs Me-Mow DVD + Finn Hat CIB
• Regular Show: The Best DVD in the Universe
• AMC Walking Dead playing cards NIB (NY Comic Con promo)
• Avengers: Infinity War Moviebill
• 2x Madonna CDs
• Trial of the Clone - A modern CYOA style book
• Three Word Phrase Volume One
• Little Red Book Complete Street Guide to New York City
• 2 1932 Olympic stamps
• Dolce and Gabanna Intenso leather bag new, open box
• Vintage Academy Broadway Duffel Bag
• Mark McGwire 62nd Home Run Gold card

WANT

Would really like to pick up a Super Mario Maker 2DS console either CIB or loose
Pre-order bonuses

• ACNH GameStop Poster
• ACNH Target Journal
• Fire Emblem 3 Houses pin set
• Link’s Awakening HD GameStop Poster
• Link’s Awakening Pin Set
• Puyo Puyo Tetris Target exclusive decals
• Yoshi’s Crafted World frame

AC Amiibo Cards

• #107 Katie

Mario Sports Amiibo Cards

• Peach Golf
• Bowser Jr. Soccer
• Rosalina Soccer
• Rosalina Baseball
• Rosalina Horse Racing

Amiibo

• Poochy (loose)
• Goomba (loose)
• Boo (loose)

LRG Cards
Cards for Flinthook, Dust, Slime San, Shantae and the Pirate's Curse, ToeJam and Earl, Golf Story, Dragon's Lair Trilogy, PixelJunk Monsters 2, Lumines Remastered, Yooka-Laylee, Blazing Chrome, Battle Chef, Windjammers, The Escapists and Saturday Morning RPG
Limited Print Switch Games (prefer CIB but also fine with NIB)

• Aegis Defenders
• Alliance Alive HD (CE or standard)
• Bud Spencer and Terence Hill: Slaps and Beans
• Dimension Drive (LE or standard)
• Fox n Forests
• Furi
• Gorogoa
• Gris
• Musynx
• Puyo Puyo Tetris big box contents with target exclusive decals or CIB
• The Messenger cover art and manual or CIB (already have but looking for a nicer copy)
• Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap launch edition

Other Switch Games (looking for CIB and clean)

• Arms
• Astral Chain
• Atari Flashback Classics
• Cat Quest 2 Pawsome Version
• Disgaea 1 Complete
• Disgaea 4 Complete
• Dragonball FighterZ
• Hasbro Game Night - Monopoly / Risk / Trivial Pursuit
• Hero Land Knowble Edition
• Hollow Knight box or CIB (already have but looking for a nicer box)
• Layton's Mystery Journey Katrielle and the Millionaire's Conspiracy
• Mario and Sonic at the Tokyo Olympic Games
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
• Ninja Saviors
• Octopath Traveler
• Overcooked Special Edition or double pack
• Phoenix Wright Trilogy
• Snack World: The Dungeon Crawl Gold
• Space Invaders Invincible Collection (JP)
• Super Mario Maker 2 stylus
• Yooka Laylee and the Impossible Lair
• Yoshi's Crafted World
• WRC 8

3DS Games

• Beyblade Collector's Edition - CIB or NIB
• Bravely Default - CIB
• Bravely Second - CIB
• Etrian Odyssey Untold soundtrack bundle - CIB
• Etrian Odyssey Nexus launch edition - CIB
• Frogger 3D - CIB big box version with cover plates
• LEGO Chima Laval's Journey - CIB big box with minifigure
• Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright - CIB
• Radiant Historia Perfect Chronology launch edition - big box with contents or CIB
• Style Savvy Fashion Forward - CIB

DS

• Bomberman Land Touch 2 - CIB
• Elektroplankton - Nintendo Power booklet
• Infinite Space - loose
• Jewel Time Deluxe - box, manual
• Korg DS10+ JP Limited Edition - CIB
• Korg M01 JP - Club Nintendo insert
• Nanostray - CIB
• Phantasy Star 0 - CIB
• Shepherd's Crossing 2 - CIB
• Space Invaders Extreme 2 - CIB

GBA

• Car Battler Joe - manual
• Drill Dozer - A Girl and Her Dozer Mini Comic (the one I have is ripped)
• Fire Emblem - CIB
• Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones - CIB

GBC

• Metal Gear Solid - box, manual, inserts
• Shantae - CIB

GB

• Kirby's Dreamland 2 - CIB
• Mario's Picross - manual
• Yoshi - DMG-USA-4 poster

Also could really use a styrofoam tray with lid for the original console box and plastic trays for game boxes.
Wii

• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - CIB
• Mini Ninjas - CIB
• The Last Story - soundtrack in sleeve

GameCube

• Army Men Air Combat the Elite Missions - box
• Baten Kaitos Origins - CIB
• Mega Man Network Transmission - CIB
• Mega Man X Command Mission - CIB with trading card
• Metroid Prime 2: Echoes - manual
• Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 and 2 Plus - CIB
• Smuggler's Run War Zones - CIB
• The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures - CIB

N64

• N64 Expansion Pack with tool to open expansion slot, or Donkey Kong 64 box, tray, manual, etc with expansion pack included
• Hey You Pikachu! - box, tray, manual, etc. (I already have the game, mic and voice unit)
• Star Fox 64 box, tray, manual, etc. (I already have game and rumble pack)

PS3

• Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness - disc

PS2

• Godzilla Save the Earth - manual or CIB
• Gradius 3 and 4 - CIB
• Naval Ops Warship Gunner - manual
• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 - black label disc
• River King a Wonderful Journey - disc

PSX

• Army Men: World War - disc only
• Konami Justifier Lightgun(s)
• Official mouse - loose or CIB

NGPC
If anyone has a Neo Geo Pocket Color and/or games for it, I'm interested...
Strategy Guides

• Gotcha Force
• Pokemon Sword and Shield

I'm also happy to look at lists, but these are my priority wants.

Hi all, I have two things I'm looking for at the moment: 1) some boxes, manuals and loose games to complete some games I currently have incomplete, and 2) some high value games for various consoles that are my priority wants right now. In cases where I am looking for incomplete stuff, I may also be willing to trade for complete stuff. I will try to describe everything I have as best I can, and pictures are either linked or available on request. In turn, I am looking for items that are complete and in good shape, but I am somewhat flexible with cardboard box games. Also, some of the items I have for trade are hard trades, so please do not be offended if I turn down a fair value trade. p.s. I have 70+ confirmed trades!
p.p.s. when I say CIB I mean Complete in Box, that includes all booklets, not just manual. If something I have is not complete I will try to communicate that. On the flip side, if you have something and you are not sure if it is complete, I am happy to check for you!

HAVES

NES

• Original game pad
• Original orange zapper
• Blaster Master - game only
• Casino Kid - game only
• Dr Mario - game only
• Empire Strikes Back - LRG reissue trading card #561
• Q-bert - game only
• RC Pro Am - game only
• Star Tropics - CIB, letter is still attached to manual!
• Star Tropics 2 Zoda's Revenge - CIB
• Super Mario Bros / Duck Hunt - game only
• The King of Kings (Wisdom Tree) - manual
• Tiger Heli - game only
• Vindicators - CIB
• Xevious - game only

N64

• 1080 Snowboarding - manual and operations card
• Army Men Air Combat - manual
• Banjo Kazooie - manual (wrinkled)
• Banjo Tooie - manual
• Battletanx Global Assault - manual (wrinkled)
• Bomberman 64 - manual
• Buck Bumble - manual
• Diddy Kong Racing - manual, operations card
• Donkey Kong 64 - manual
• Extreme-G - manual
• Goldeneye 007 - manual
• Kirby 64 - manual
• Mario Kart 64 - manual, operations card and player's guide offer booklet
• Mario Party 2 - manual
• Mario Tennis - manual
• Rugrats Scavenger Hunt - manual
• Star Wars Episode 1 Battle for Naboo - manual (has marker on top right)
• Super Mario 64 - manual
• Yoshi's Story - manual and operations card
• Zelda Ocarina of Time - manual

GameCube

• Army Men Air Combat The Elite Missions - game and manual only
• Lego Star Wars - CIB
• Lego Star Wars II - CIB
• Ribbit King with bonus disc - CIB
• Superman Shadow of Apokolips - CIB, also have a Nintendo Power poster to go with it
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - manual only
• Action Replay - manual only

Wii
almost all of this Wii stuff is pending a local deal

• Late model console with Wii Sports / Wii Sports Resort combo disc, nearly complete in a worn box, not GameCube-compatible (ask for more info)
• ABC Wipeout 2 - CIB
• Battalion Wars 2 - CIB
• Boom Blox Bash Party - CIB
• Elebits - CIB
• Ghost Squad - CIB
• Ghostbusters - NIB
• Hello Kitty Seasons - CIB
• Link's Crossbow Training - disc and manual in cardboard sleeve
• Metroid Other M - CIB
• Nights Journey of Dreams - CIB
• Press Your Luck 2010 Edition - CIB
• Rayman Raving Rabbids - CIB
• Rayman Raving Rabbids TV Party - CIB
• Star Wars the Force Unleashed - CIB
• Super Paper Mario - box and manual
• Wii Fit Plus - CIB (no balance board)
• Zhu Zhu Pets Featuring the Wild Bunch - CIB
• 2 Blasters + Game big box NIB (game download no longer works) (these blasters are attachments for Wiimotes to make them into pistols, great accessory IMO)

Wii U

• 007 Legends - NIB
• NintendoLand - box, manual and booklets

Switch

• Azure Striker Gunvolt Striker Pack - NIB
• Cosmic Star Heroine - NIB
• Danmaku Unlimited 3 - NIB with card
• Downwell - NIB
• Freedom Planet - LRG trading card
• Gekido Kintaro’s Revenge - CIB
• Giga Wrecker Alt - LRG trading card with gold foil
• Korg Gadget - NIB
• Mutant Mudds Collection - CIB (crease on slipcover) with loose cards
• Oxenfree - NIB
• PixelJunk Monsters 2 - NIB
• Rive - SRG trading cards only sealed
• Shantae and the Pirate's Curse - NIB
• Snake Pass - SRG trading cards only sealed
• Splasher - NIB
• The Adventure Pals - NIB with sealed cards
• The Darkside Detective - NIB with sealed cards, hard trade
• The Escapists - NIB
• The Flame in the Flood - partially NIB with sealed cards and sticker (missing outer bag)
• PowerA Premium Game Card Case red Super Mario M - NIB
• PowerA wireless GameCube style controller gray - NIB

GB

• 4 in 1 Funpak Volume II - game only
• Baseball - box, game with repro tray
• Battleship - box, game, registration card, poster with repro tray
• Bill Elliott's Nascar Fast Tracks - box, game, manual, inserts with repro tray and original receipt from 1992
• Bo Jackson Hit and Run - game and manual
• Centipede and Millipede - box, tray, game, manual
• Cleaning Kit - box only
• Dead Heat Scramble - game only
• Desert Strike - box, manual, game, inserts with repro tray
• Donkey Kong Land - game only
• Donkey Kong Land 2 - game only
• Dr Mario - box and game with repro tray
• Face Ball 2000 - game only
• Game and Watch Gallery - box and manual with repro tray
• Ghostbusters II - game only
• Golf Player's Choice - box, manual and game with repro tray
• Hyper Lode Runner - game only
• James Bond 007 - game only
• Jeopardy! - box, game, manual, all inserts with repro tray
• King James Bible (Wisdom Tree) - manual
• Kirby's Dreamland - box only with repro tray
• Kirby's Dreamland 2 - box only with repro tray
• Kirby's Pinball Land - box and game with repro tray
• Kwirk - game only
• Mickey's Dangerous Chase player's choice - game only
• Mole Mania - game only
• Monopoly - box, game, manual, all inserts with repro tray
• Nemesis - game only
• Paperboy - game only
• Penguin Wars - CIB
• Revenge of the Gator - game only
• Shanghai - game only
• Super Mario Land - game only
• Super Mario Land 2 6 Golden Coins - game only x2
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fall of the Foot Clan - game only x2
• Tetris Attack - game only
• The Chessmaster - box, game, inserts with repro tray (no manual)
• The Smurfs - game only
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - game only
• WWF Superstars 2 - box, game, manual, all inserts with repro tray
• Yoshi - box, game and manual with repro tray
• Yoshi's Cookie - game only
• Nuby Worm Light safety instructions booklet only

GBC

• Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 3 - manual
• Croc - game only
• Game and Watch Gallery 2 - box, manual and game with repro tray
• Pocket Bomberman - game and manual
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater - game only
• Wings of Fury - CIB
• GameShark Pro - box, manual

GBA

• 3rd party charger - looks like an OEM charger but isn't
• An American Tail Fievel's Gold Rush - CIB
• Atari Anniversary Advance - CIB
• Backyard Basketball - game only
• Backyard Football - game only
• Candy Land / Chutes and Ladders / Memory - CIB
• Car Battler Joe - game only
• Connect Four / Perfection / Trouble - CIB
• Crash Bandicoot the Huge Adventure - game only
• Disney's Magical Quest 2 Starring Mickey and Minnie - game only
• Disney's Monsters Inc. / Finding Nemo - game only
• Donkey Kong Country - game only
• Donkey Kong Country 2 - game only
• Ecks vs Sever - game only
• Ed Edd n Eddy the Mis-Edventures - game only
• F-14 Tomcat - game only
• Garfield the Search for Pooky - CIB
• Kirby and the Amazing Mirror - box, tray, manual, all inserts
• Madden 2003 - game only
• Mario Pinball Land - CIB
• Mario Tennis Power Tour - game only
• Medabots Rokusho Version - game only
• Monster Trucks - game only
• Muppet Pinball Mayhem - game only
• Need for Speed Underground - game only
• Pac Man Collection - game only
• Pac Man World - game only
• Pocket Dogs - CIB
• Pokemon Glazed (bootleg, clear blue cart) - game only
• Rayman Advance - game only
• Road Trip Shifting Gears - CIB
• Rugrats I Gotta Go Party - game only
• Sonic Advance 2 - game only
• Spongebob Squarepants Battle for Bikini Bottom - game only
• Spongebob Squarepants Lights Camera Pants - game only
• Spongebob Squarepants Revenge of the Flying Dutchman - game only
• Spyro 2 Season of Flame - CIB, also have a loose copy
• Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World - game only
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 - game only
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - game only
• Uno / Skip Bo - game only

GBA Video

• Dragon Ball GT Volume 1 - NIB
• Nickelodeon Rugrats All Grown Up! Volume 1 - NIB
• Nicktoons Collection Volume 2 - NIB

DS

• Chrono Trigger - box, manual, all inserts including the poster
• Dragon Quest Heroes Rocket Slime - box, manual, all inserts
• Fossil League Dino Tournament Championship - CIB
• Hamsterz Life - CIB
• Go Diego Go Great Dinosaur Rescue - CIB
• Harvest Moon DS - game only
• Junior Brain Trainer - CIB
• Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games - manual, all inserts
• Metroid Prime Pinball - box, manual, health and safety insert (cover art says Rumble Pak included but there is no Rumble Pak)
• Pokemon HeartGold / SoulSilver - Pokewalker manual and safety booklet only
• Pokemon Ranger - CIB
• Rune Factory - box, manual, all inserts
• Scribblenauts Unlimited - manual only
• Spongebob Squarepants Atlantis Squarepantis - NIB
• Star Fox Command - box, manual, all inserts
• Warioware DIY - box, manual, all inserts
• Yoshi's Island DS - box, manual, health and safety insert
• EMS NDS Adapter - CIB (Not the newest version, works best with Windows XP)
• Operations manual and other inserts for black DSi in bag
• Instruction booklet for launch model DS
• I also have some health and safety precautions booklets and one WiFi connection booklet

3DS

• Brain Age Concentration Training - box, manual (cover art has a small tear on back)
• Legend of Legacy big box launch edition - CIB (very hard trade)
• Legend of Zelda Triforce Heroes - NIB
• Poochy and Yoshi's Woolly World EU region big box only (can hold both game and Poochy amiibo)
• Puzzler 3D World 2012 - CIB
• Puzzler Mind Gym 3D - CIB
• Tomodachi Life - manual
• OEM charger
• Operations manual and other inserts (no AR cards) for launch model 3DS in bag
• 2DS XL quick start guide
• Nyko Game Boost power attachment for launch model 3DS - NIB, some box damage

PSX

• 2 Xtreme - CIB
• Jeopardy! - CIB
• Moto Racer 2 - CIB
• Need for Speed Hot Pursuit greatest hits green label - CIB
• Rayman greatest hits green label - CIB (jewel case is cracked)
• Road Rash greatest hits green label - CIB
• Sled Storm - CIB
• Star Wars Rebel Assault II - CIB
• Tetris Plus greatest hits green label - CIB
• Tomb Raider III greatest hits green label - CIB
• Wheel of Fortune greatest hits green label - CIB

PS2

• Ace Combat 04 greatest hits - CIB
• DDR Extreme 2 - CIB
• DDR Supernova - CIB
• DDRMAX DDR - CIB
• Gadget Racers - CIB
• Gauntlet Dark Legacy - CIB
• R-Type Final - disc only
• Ratchet and Clank: Size Matters - NIB
• Star Wars Battlefront greatest hits red label - CIB
• SOCOM II: US Navy Seals - manual only
• Supercar Street Challenge - CIB
• We Love Katamari - CIB

PS3

• Battleship - NIB
• Dynasty Warriors: Gundam - NIB
• Killzone 3 - NIB
• Mini Ninjas - CIB
• Uncharted 3 Drake's Deception - NIB

Xbox

• Halo Combat Evolved Platinum Hits - CIB

Xbox 360

• Civilization Revolution - CIB
• Halo 3 ODST - Discs only in a generic case
• Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary - discs only in a generic case
• Halo Reach - CIB

IBM Tandy

• Mario Teaches Typing big box - NIB

PC

• Cubix: Robots for Everyone - NIB
• Jimmy Neutron vs Jimmy Negatron - manual only
• Oil Tycoon - NIB

Amiibo

• Blue Inkling Boy - NIB
• Kirby Warp Star (Kirby series) - NIB
• Mabel - NIB
• Peach (Mario series) - NIB

Collectibles

• Ni No Kuni II Figpin "Evan" new
• Hatsune Miku Funko Pop NIB
• Club Nintendo Red Mario Hat DS carrying case - New
• Club Nintendo Super Mario Children's Book JP Exclusive - New
• 2003 Nintendo Duck Hunt Patch - New
• Poster: Monster Hunter 3 Tri 20x27"
• Poster: Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games 40x14"
• Poster: New Super Mario Bros Wii / Zelda Spirit Tracks 12x17"
• Poster set: Bravoman and Bravoman x Wonder-Momo 11x15"
• Poster: Superman Shadow of Apokolips (from Nintendo Power)
• Large collection of Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Image comics (Click the link for a full list of what is available)

Random Stuff

• Heavy duty HDMI cable flat style
• White Verizon iPhone 5S with protective case and charger
• Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note 2 - Pretty sure this is unlocked, but will not work on Verizon, comes with Cyanogen OS, charging cable and dock
• GameKlip controller mount NIB - Would work great with the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, requires a PS3 (aka DS3) controller, learn more here
• Ledger Nano S Whitepaper Edition NIB
• Micro Machines National Geographic Collection #1 and #3
• Daft Punk - Random Access Memories Vinyl Sealed
• Holy Ghost - Static on the Wire Vinyl Like New
• ABSRDST- Boss Beats CD sealed (An EP of Mega Man remixes)
• Speed Racer: The Movie VHS CIB
• Adventure Time: Jake vs Me-Mow DVD + Finn Hat CIB
• Regular Show: The Best DVD in the Universe
• AMC Walking Dead playing cards NIB (NY Comic Con promo)
• Avengers: Infinity War Moviebill
• 2x Madonna CDs
• Trial of the Clone - A modern CYOA style book
• Three Word Phrase Volume One
• Little Red Book Complete Street Guide to New York City
• 2 1932 Olympic stamps
• Dolce and Gabanna Intenso leather bag new, open box
• Vintage Academy Broadway Duffel Bag
• Mark McGwire 62nd Home Run Gold card

WANTS

Remember, for any of these I'm willing to trade for CIB copies. I am also willing to look at lists but these are my priority wants.
Switch

• PENDING ESP RA DE CIB or NIB
• Furi CIB or NIB
• Gris CIB or NIB
• Link's Awakening Dreamer Edition or other big box edition CIB like new (low priority)
• Link's Awakening GameStop exclusive double-sided poster
• Link's Awakening pin set
• Link's Awakening steelbook (low priority)
• LRG trading card for Another World
• LRG trading card for Dragon's Lair Trilogy
• LRG trading card for Flinthook
• LRG trading card for PixelJunk Monsters 2
• LRG trading card for Shantae and the Pirate's Curse
• LRG trading card for Slime San
• LRG trading card for Toejam and Earl
• Puyo Puyo Tetris CIB or NIB with target exclusive decals
• Octopath Traveler CIB
• The Messenger CIB or NIB
• PowerA game carrying case (black and gold Zelda style, blue Zelda style)
• Switch Lite screen protector
• Switch Lite carrying case

3DS

• Codename STEAM - CIB or NIB
• Etrian Odyssey Untold soundtrack bundle - CIB
• Frogger 3D - CIB big box version with cover plates
• LEGO Chima Laval's Journey - CIB or NIB with minifigure
• Radiant Historia launch edition - big box contents or CIB

DS

• Bomberman Land Touch - CIB
• Bomberman Land Touch 2 - CIB
• Cooking Mama's Combo Pack Volume 1 - CIB
• Dokapon Journey - CIB
• Elektroplankton - Nintendo Power insert
• Etrian Odyssey 3 - CIB
• Final Fantasy Fables Chocobo Tales - registration card
• Harvest Moon DS - box, manual, all inserts
• Infinite Space - game only
• Izuna Legend of the Unemployed Ninja - CIB
• Jewel Time Deluxe - box, manual
• Korg DS10+ JP Limited Edition - CIB
• Korg M01 JP - Club Nintendo insert
• Magician’s Quest Mysterious Times - CIB
• Maplestory DS Korean version - CIB
• Master of Illusion - big box with outer inserts (I have the inner box complete and the trading cards in their box)
• Metal Slug 7 - CIB with poster
• Nanostray - CIB
• Phantasy Star 0 - CIB
• Plants vs Zombies - CIB big box version with ugly peashooter stylus
• Pokemon Conquest - CIB
• Robocalypse - game only
• Shepherd's Crossing 2 - CIB
• Space Invaders Extreme 2 - CIB
• The Dark Spire - CIB with soundtrack
• Wappy Dog - CIB or NIB with dog

GBA

• Astro Boy Omega Factor - box, manual, all inserts
• Car Battler Joe - manual
• Drill Dozer - A Girl and Her Dozer Mini Comic (the one I have is ripped)
• Final Fight One - box, manual, all inserts
• Fire Emblem - loose or CIB
• Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones - loose or CIB
• Gunstar Super Heroes - box, manual, all inserts
• Klonoa 2 Dream Champ Tournament - box, manual, all inserts
• Mario Party-e - CIB
• Mega Man Battle Chip Challenge - box, manual, all inserts
• Metroid Zero Mission - box, manual, all inserts
• Phantasy Star Collection - CIB
• Sonic Advance + Sonic Pinball Party - box, manual, all inserts
• Tales of Phantasia - box, manual, all inserts
• Warioland 4 - box, manual, all inserts
• Zone of the Enders the Fist of Mars - box, manual, all inserts

GBC

• Kirby Tilt n Tumble - box, manual, all inserts
• Legend of the River King - box, manual, all inserts
• Legend of the River King 2 - box, manual, all inserts
• Metal Gear Solid - box, manual, all inserts
• Pocket Bomberman - box, all inserts (I have the manual)
• Shantae - loose or CIB (fat chance I know)
• Super Mario Bros Deluxe - box, manual, all inserts
• Worms Armageddon - registration card, also might need a Nintendo Power booklet
• Zelda Oracle of Ages / Seasons - boxes, manuals, all inserts

GB

• Clamshell plastic case for silver Game Boy Pocket (I have the console, manual, and consumer safety booklet)
• Harvest Moon - registration card, Nintendo Power booklet
• Ninja Boy 2 - CIB
• Pokemon Yellow - CIB
• Tetris - box, manual, all inserts
• TMNT Fall of the Foot Clan - box, manual, all inserts

Wii

• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - CIB
• The Last Story - soundtrack in sleeve

GameCube

• Army Men Air Combat the Elite Missions - box
• Baten Kaitos Origins - CIB
• Mega Man Network Transmission - CIB
• Mega Man X Command Mission - CIB with trading card
• Metal Gear Solid the Twin Snakes - CIB
• Phantasy Star Online Episode 1 and 2 Plus - CIB
• Smuggler's Run War Zones - box
• The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures - CIB

N64

• N64 Expansion Pack with tool to open expansion slot, or Donkey Kong 64 box, tray, manual, etc with expansion pack included
• Star Fox 64 box, tray, manual, etc. (I already have game and rumble pack)

SNES

• Mario Paint - CIB

NES

• Freedom Force - box, manual, etc
• Gumshoe - box, manual, etc
• Hogan's Alley - box, manual, etc
• Mechanized Attack - box, manual, etc
• RC Pro Am - box, manual, etc
• Space Shuttle Project - box, manual, etc
• Super Mario Bros / World Class Track Meet / Duck Hunt - box, manual, etc
• Wild Gunman - box, manual, etc

PS3

• Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness - disc

PS2

• Godzilla Save the Earth - manual
• Gradius 3 and 4 - CIB
• Naval Ops Warship Gunner - manual
• Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 - black label disc
• River King a Wonderful Journey - disc

PSX

• Army Men: World War - disc only
• Konami Justifier Lightgun(s)

Amiibo

• Poochy loose
• SSB Isabelle loose or NIB

Soundtracks

• Club Nintendo Sound Selection 2: Loud Music
• Club Nintendo Sound Selection 3: B-Side Music
• Out Run (vinyl or CD box set)

Strategy Guides

• Pokemon Sword / Shield
• Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Power)
• Zelda Oracle of Ages / Seasons (Nintendo Power)

I may also be willing to buy items in my wantlist. And if you see something you like of mine that you would rather buy than trade for, let me know and I will make a GameSale post.