Archive for January, 2007
Friday, January 26th, 2007
Back to Back Seconds
I took second last night in CC’s Thursday evening tourney. CC won, but he card-racked his way there. Our heads-up was one hand – me with less than 30% of his chips employed the low-stack shove style with A5 soooted. CC had QQ and its was over like that.
This was after taking [...]
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
Pimpbot 2000
When I was in graduate school, we used to joke about creating a robotic pimp to supplement our meager pay. We made up a design plan (including a built-in
courvoisier distillery) but never were able to follow through on our plan. Some of my clasmates of the more female persuasion objected to the subdication [...]
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!
I’ve never been one to stand in line for anything.
However, I’d heard through the digg-vine that a new shipment of Nintendo’s latest time waster was due to hit the stores. A combination of price ($250) and new controller technology (remote accelerometers) gave me a techno-woody for the Wii like you wouldn’t believe. [...]
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Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
Poker Source Online: Instant Bankroll Opportunity
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
Two Final Tables and a Bad Beat
I played in the always awesome WWdN last night. I made it to the final table but was out in 7th because I did not gambool with some marginal hands before the blind monster came around and took care of me. While I passively losing that one, I was aggressively losing the WWdN 2nd Chance [...]
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Sunday, January 14th, 2007
A Heated State of the Union Address in the Works
He may be scrambling to untarnish a legacy that has been nearly sunk by mistakes made in Iraq, but if W does this:
George Bush is preparing to make a historic shift in his position on global warming when he makes his State of the Union speech later this month, say senior Downing Street officials.
It may [...]
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Sunday, January 14th, 2007
The Balance Between Tedium and Victory
“What you do in practice, you’ll do in the game”
Pretty much all of my high school coaches.
After a fairly lengthy hiatus from any serious on-line tourney play, I’m going to start taking more shots at some of the bigger prize pools available in on-line poker. The recent release of the 2007 WSOP schedule is [...]
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
New WPBT Season
What’s this? Poker content? Here?
Yep. A new WPBT Player of the Year Season is upon us. Columbo will be handling the series this year. I’ll be doing the scoring with the same system as last year. We still use the PokerStars tourney leaderboard formula (with a slight modification [...]
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Monday, January 8th, 2007
Go Pats!
I’m not a huge football fan – I’m more of the bandwagon type. It is hard not to get caught up in the New Englander’s enthusiasm for their team that just advanced to the Divisional Playoffs.
I watched the game that was described in today’s Boston Globe as a chess match between two old rivals.
FOXBOROUGH [...]
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Thursday, January 4th, 2007
Another Boring Green Post
Much like it is a mistake to look at a single day’s poker results as an indication of a player’s overall ability, it is wrong to mistake the daily weather with our climate. Weather is our day to day experience with the elements around us. It arises from, among other things, the differential [...]
