Welcome to the article where we prove Knup knows nothing about football and that JC is a genius.  Super Bowl 43 in Tampa, Florida pits the resurging, offensive Arizona Cardinals against top rank defensive Pittsburgh Steelers.  To most, including Knup, this game looks like a mismatch, not only does he believe the Steelers will win this game, he also believes they will cover the (-7) spread.  This shows his ignorance on the subject of football.  This is the year of the Cardinals, they will head to Tampa and they will not only cover, but they will win this game straight up.  This is Kurt Warner’s third Super Bowl and he might be one big game victory away from solidifying his spot in Canton, Ohio.  Not to mention Kurt Warner is a huge fan of God and I’m having trouble believing God is not going to side with Kurt Warner in this game.  The Steelers defense is great, not good, great, but if they do not get pressure on Warner this game is over before it starts.  I believe the Steelers will have trouble getting to Warner allowing him time to find Fitzgerald, Bolden, and Breaston.  I do love Big Ben though and not only because he is the next IPO coming out, and we need to watch that he doesn’t drop during the Super Bowl, and he is a big game quarterback, but I just believe it is Warner’s time – again.  I mean how many times can a quarterback be washed up and then good, then washed up, and then good again.  I just can’t wait to see Warner hold up the Super Bowl trophy and Fitzgerald hold up that MVP trophy.  It will be a great day Sunday.  Cards 27  Steelers 24

Knup foolishly predicted the outcome to be Steelers 24, Cardinals 13

If you missed the show last night, most of you probably missed the announcement by OneseasonAlerts.com that starting today their IPO tools will be $10 and they will be reserved for the first 20 people who pay.  This has caused a huge shift in the IPO landscape as this means free alerts are a thing of the past.  In a world where you only have about a minute to get logged on and request your shares, most of you will not have an alert to notify you of an IPO release.  With Bob’s Tool and OneseasonAlerts going pay, you will be in an exclusive club of about 40 people getting alerted.  I in one am a fan of the pay service, some might not be but I am.  I don’t see any problem spending $10-$20 an IPO for the chance to make hundreds or thousands of dollars.  Even if 100 people end up on pay services you still have a better chance getting that IPO than when 1000 people were getting a free alert.  Why would you not pay to be 1 in 100 when almost 50 people get an IPO.  Yes the free alert is great for people who just want to make money on IPO’s and pull out there cash, but the people who will pay for these services are diehard Oneseason followers who will be putting this money back into the market.  This will give the market an injection of cash that was otherwise just taken back out of the market by IPO thieves.  A lot of people on these sites have made good money on IPO’s and in the market and it should come to no surprise to most of us these tools have gone to pay services.  In my mind it’s about time.

We will be holding another poker tournament tonight at Aced.  This should be a smaller tourney so come and win it yourself.  No bounties for this one.  $10+$1 entry.  Details can be found at at OneSeasonPoker.com!  See you tonight.

P.S. – We are targetting a week from Sunday for our next LARGE OST/OSN Poker Tourney!!! Get it on the calendar.

Callin Big Ben Roethlisberger?!?!  Where are you IPO?  Lol.  So this is an interesting little scenario here.  We all would love to see Big Ben Roethlisberger released before the Super Bowl.  I mean, who the heck wants him “after” the game?  Not me.  But on the other hand, the market is showing signs that it is not ready for a new IPO.  Hmmmmmm… What’s going to happen?  Will Ben mysteriously make his way onto the market tonight or tomorrow?  Or will we all have to wait to post-Super Bowl?

I have the answer.  OneSeason will release Ben during one of the two things:

a) The coin flip of the big game.

b) The Super Bowl Half-time show.

This would be just like OneSeason to do something like that.  Playing games with all of us and releasing guys at the time you’d least expect it.  So I’m telling you right now, expect it!

I get questions all the time about the IPO process and when the next IPO is going to be released.  Honestly, this formula is very hard to “figure out” and I don’t think any of us traders have.  But from our last interview with Mike Sroka, here is what we know.

First off, I’m going to define IPO Announcement and IPO Release.  I refer to the IPO Announcement as when the new IPO is available to “request shares”.  So the very first time this IPO has been announced to the website.  IPO Release is when the IPO is available for trading.

So a common question is, “is the IPO announcement process automated or manual?”  OneSeason has formula’s in place that tell them when the market is ready for a new IPO.  Basically certain things  that happen to “trigger” a new IPO.  We are uncertain what all these factors are but it is speculated that Volume, Market Cap, # of new users, # of people requesting new IPOs, free cash and more are all factors.  So, once the market is ready for a new IPO, it still takes OneSeason staff to “push the button” to announce the new IPO to the market and make that IPO open to request your timestamp.  They do this so they have the staff in place to handle the support and potential issues an ipo could bring.

Likewise, the max % given to a user is sort of manually determined.  This is not 100% automated as they have many different factors and formula’s to help them decide what the best % to give is.  But it’s still someone at OneSeason making the final say on what this number is.

So no, the IPO process is not entirely automated.  My best advice, quit trying to “guess” when an IPO is coming out and just be on call at all times.  Easier said than done huh?

Found this great new OneSeason article in the Mercury News.  Take a look if you get a chance.

Article Link

Check out the little OneSeason blurb in AskMen.com – only thing I question is the comment that it’s “Free”.  Lol.

AskMen.com OneSeason Link

The first ever OST/OSN Poker Invitational went down last night.  And the winner is…. Bengal725!!!

The tourney kicked off right on time and lasted about 2.5 hours max. About 20 minutes into the game, we had a little IPO action which forced many to miss some hands.  I personally missed about 5-6 hands due to ’scrambling’ for some FITZ. Still didn’t get any   But the tourney continued and the action got heated. Aced did a great job facilitating and game play seemed to be very smooth. We finished with 33 players for the first tourney! Thanks to everyone for playing and hope to see you back next time.  Keep an eye out at OneSeasonPoker.com for the latest schedule and details.  Oh yeah, did I mention ‘yours truly’ knocked out Bullpup!!!

Top 5 – Players in the money
1. bengal725 $132
2. danceham $82.50
3. gtfanbowl $49.50
4. TheDopest $39.60
5. ProjectDefault $26.40

Bounties claimed:
Knup: Danceham knocked me out and gets an OST tshirt. Contact me Danceham.
Bullpup: Knup knocked out Bullpup and gets an OSN tshirt. HUAH!
PatsNY: RealityCheck knocked out Pats and gets $15 in store credit to artoshirt.net
Sdog: RealityCheck knocked out Sdog and gets an OST tshirt.

See you all next week and let me know if you want to play a random game here or there.

It’s almost Super Bowl time. And what better timing than to have Larry Fitzgerald released as a OneSeason IPO. Or is it bad timing?  Lots of questions arose after Larry Fitzgerald IPO was dropped last night.  Is the market truly ready for another IPO? Was this ‘forced’ because of the Super Bowl? Was the timing a fun little thing for OneSeason since it was 25 minutes into the first ever OneSeason Poker tourney?  Who knows, all we know, is he’s out and going to be released for trading today! OneSeason will release 1200-1600 shares of the superstar wide receiver.  I expect FITZ to settle in around 13,000 market value and probably trade in the $8-$12 range.  What do you think?