Archive for May, 2008
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Back From Being Lost in the Canadian Rockies
I am back from my vacation in the Canadian Rockies. It was my first time there – people kept asking me how I liked it. I think I disappointed them with my answer of ‘It’s ok’. What are you supposed to say when you are surrounded by emerald green and sky blue lakes, roaming elk, [...]
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
And the Winner Is….
There was excitement aplenty in Casa de Biggestron this morning.
I had LittleBiggestron help me with the drawing for the Poker Academy software give away.
A 5 year old boy was about the best RNG I could find to help decide the winner of the Poker Academy Contest. He quickly drew out this name:
Congrats to on_thg, winner [...]
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Last Day for Contest!
I’m cutting off entries to my free Poker Academy give-away ($140 worth of software) tonight at midnight eastern time. As of this posting you have a 10% chance of winning – all you have to do is read this review I wrote about Poker Academy / Poker Prospector.
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My recent poker results have been, um, not [...]
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
$150 Worth of Poker Software for Free and Red Sox Rookie Delight
I’m giving away a copy of Poker Academy / Poker Prospector. Go read my review a few posts down from this one for instructions on how to enter. As of this posting, you stand a 25% shot at winning.
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Congrats to Red Sox pitcher John Lester on his no-hitter against the Royals last night. Two rookies [...]
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
FeedBurner Now
I am changing my feed to FeedBurner – you can subscribe/switch your feed here if you lost me:
Subscribe in a reader
I’d previously been feeding out through an RSS2.0. There was nothing really wrong with that feed, but Google owned FeedBurner will help me to be even more accessible.
Unfortunately, Google has not yet invented [...]
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Attention Full Tilt
Your heads-up tourney algorithm was programmed by someone who either:
1) stayed up too late playing poker and was thus very tired
2) has never played poker in their life
Either way, I’d suggest that you fix it.
What is the problem, you ask?
I understand the need to have a power of 2 (2,4,8,16,32 etc) to make the tourney [...]
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Poker Academy Pro / Prospector Review (Contest)
I was recently given the chance to try out the most recent version of Poker Academy Pro. I was able to finagle an extra copy, which I will be giving away for free (see bottom for details).
Poker Academy is built around the Poker AI created by the University of Alberta games strategy group, [...]
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Which is the True WSOP Championship – Horse or Main Event?
Since the implementation of the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event in 2006, the debate has raged. Which is the true championship? Is it the “players championship” of H.O.R.S.E.? Or is it the $10,000 no-limit hold’em “main event?” It depends on what you think makes a championship. Here are a couple of possibilities.
Skill
Which event requires more skill, the [...]
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
If You Want to Roll for Free
$750 up for grabs.
Put a link to www.pokerweblogs.com and let them know about it. Email the linked page location to support@pokerweblogs.com.
Freeroll is at Pokerstars, May 18th, 15:00 CET (10:00 EDT, I think…).
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Whither the Work Day
I'm still trying to get used to this whole not having a job thing. I have not been out of work that long, but this is the first time in two decades where I have not had a place to be. It feels…weird. I know it is temporary, so I'm trying to keep my standard [...]
