Archive for May 2006
More tales from the Big Game
So there I am, sitting at the Big Game last week, playing the lowest no limit they have ($1/$2). I’ve seen them starts lists for $5/$10 no limit with a $2,500 maximum buyin, but that’s a tale for another time. I’ve just spent an hour bullying the table for $200 and I look down in…
Read MoreFinally, someone gave me the business end of the statistical firehose.
I finally took a statistical downswing at the Big Game. But wait, don’t you want to regale with tales from this session? Isn’t there something pithy to say? Not really, I got crappy cards and overplayed them. Exactly what the players with better cards needed to make money off me. I’m not broken up about…
Read MoreA problem I’ve never had.
I’ve never been good enough at live poker to have a cash management problem. But today, after several sessions where I bought in at the Big Game with hundreds and then got cashed out in twenties, I’m having a currency storage problem. I went to the bank and asked to color up my bills and…
Read MoreThe Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
wow, amazingly good advice even for a company as big as us. And though people would say we’re not a startup, lots of things we do still feel like it. (like the little Manhattan Project I’m coding right now) Link: The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn.
Read MoreAnother couple hours, another $100+ profit
Honestly, this is getting a little silly. I played at the Big Game again tonight and counted four chip dumpers around me at a table of 7 people, myself included. Avoiding the players will real card selection skills, I was still in a target rich environment. I bullied the table all evening and finally got…
Read MoreI’m not quite that old yet…
I turn 39 this month, and I’m clearly behind in all the stuff I have to do before I turn 40. I only have 12 months to get my act together, buy a Porsche, start dating a 20 year old, and join EST (now called ‘The Forum’) and ‘find myself’. That’s a lot of ironic…
Read MoreWhy is my hourly rate in the positive three digit range?
For a guy that plays low stakes, I’ve been running a little hot. Last night I hit an online $1/$2 Omaha/8 No LIMIT game and relieved folks of over $200 in a little over an hour. I am a decent Omaha/8 player, but I’m not that good. Omaha’s a pretty complex game, with enough potential…
Read MoreBlackberry = patent lawsuit magnet
Honestly, if you’re a Blackberry user, don’t buy another one. Go get yourself a Windows Mobile 5.0-based phone (like the HTC Wizard) and stop freaking out about the patent lawsuits. You need a company the size of Microsoft (with their patent portfolio) to protect you from idiocy like this. Link: Another Patent Lawsuit Sours BlackBerry.
Read MoreThe first rule of the Big Game: don’t talk about the Big Game.
It’s really true. If you found a wonderfully loose card game full of poor players playing for decent stakes, you’d keep your mouth shut. And I will, mostly, except that I’m going to crow a little bit. I won’t talk about where it is, who’s hosting it, or anything else that might allow you to…
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