Tony Pontecorvo

@disguyyy.bsky.social

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Las Vegas musician (musicbytonyp.com), writer, poker dealer and player. Sometimes I post slow, sometimes I post quick. He/him

Birds Aren’t Real. ^^^ This was “the bird.”
Cute dog with pink boots being held by an ugly dude.
Wallkill River outside my childhood home in Walden, NY
NBA tanking solution… edited to fit alt text: In the NBA lottery, 1,001 possible combinations come from 4 ping-pong balls being drawn from a possible 14. The three teams in the lottery with the worst W-L record each receive 140 possible combinations for the number one pick. The “least-worst” team - or the team that most closely missed the playoffs - only receives five possible combinations. The first 62 games of the NBA season is 75.6% of the season. If you take the 1000 combinations and reduce the possibilities to 200, 140, 115, 95, 65, 45, 30, 20, 14, 10, seven, six, five, and four you have 756 combinations. This is going back to the previous weighted system, but that’s ok because we hope that teams won’t give up long before the All-Star break just to take the “lead” in the lottery. For the last 20 games, you have 244 combinations up for grabs. The lottery teams with the BEST records in those 20 games receive 50 extra combinations then 36, 32, 28, 24, 20, 16, 12, nine, seven, four, three, two, and one. No matter what happens, the team with the worst record over the first 62 games will still have the most combinations - even if they finish with the worst record in the last 20 games, they receive 201 combinations and the next highest a team could have would be 190 (if the team with the second-worst record over the first 62 games finishes with the best record over the final 20). With additional ball combinations possible with every win, teams will want to win and improve their odds of a high draft pick instead of tanking to do so. For teams that are hopeless and can't seem to win regardless, do we really want to "reward" them by improving their odds? Doesn't make sense to me.
Dexter the dog on his stuffed animal
“When the opponent keeps betting, you can be quite certain that he either has top pair or a better made hand, a draw, or a total bluff.” - Well fucking, yeah. That about covers it, huh? Brilliant analysis.
Tyrese Maxey shoots four free throws in overtime, taking up over 1/3 of the entire “game highlights”.
Sweetie (bichon mix) and Kittie (senior black and white cat) giving good morning (and feed us) muzzles to each other.
Four paragraph letter to Sen Cortez Masto calling out her reckless vote with Republicans to pass the CR.
Trump to charge $15k to visitors from out-of-country.
Gift box for the live podcast taping of Brian Windhorst & the Hoop Collextive.
Sam Seaborn? I’ve always seen myself as more of a Josh Lyman type.
James Harden as “hot” trending topic
Sun Goddess Pinot Grigio
Worst guy you know makes a good point
princess bride, “You’re trying to kidnap what I’ve rightfully stolen”
Sarah w/ bangs
Cute white senior dog mean mugging the camera.
Dexter - a 15yo Maltese Bichon curled up and napping.
Susie Lee email response to constituent letter.