Why would you use a URL shortener for reddit links? If you don't like the long ones (don't know why you'd care, but..) you can use reddit's short links.
/me hates url shorteners except for exceptional circumstances and feels they miss the entire purpose of a link
Reread the article. His "all-in" is referring to N3PLs move of bringing in their supercaps/titans.
> A big reason N3 has been able to throw its weight around recently is its enormous fleet of titans and super capital ships. When faced with its B-R5RB problem, N3 decided to bring out the Wrecking Ball, the pet name of its extremely powerful fleet. Manny and N3 were hoping CFC would blink.
then
> "It's like shoving all-in in poker," said Gianturco. "You're shoving all your chips into the middle of the table and hoping the other guy doesn't have better cards than you. Most of the time, the other guy will fold. Except in this case, we came across over the top and took all their shit away."
It was another "FC" (fleet commander) that decided to go "all in". Here are a couple of Reddit AMAs with the commanders from either side.
http://bit.ly/1jcPJfp
http://bit.ly/1c0M2Bq