Blackjack was the game that I was most interested in learning or playing when I was a kid. It’s much simpler than poker and I thought that given the simple structure and advice it was a game that I could master. Plus, you don’t play against people and hence avoid the randomizing and personalizing that [...]
Wow, so I finished my 50,000 words for NaNoWriMo already so I’m free to start playing poker again. I thought I’d better ease into it again, and fired up a $1 turbo SnG. Kx in the BB, K high flop, I expect the limper in middle position to bet at it as I’ve seen him [...]
This morning, for some unknown reason, I woke up 45 minutes before my alarm was to go off. For some reason I started thinking about something that came up in a private no limit hold’em poker tourney 3-4 weeks ago. It was relatively early and either I or this other player that I knew got [...]
Still working on my NaNoWriMo entry, so the poker playing is limited to days when I’m writing but want some side action, in which case I’ll start up a cheap SnG so I can play without paying attention to reads. But, I wanted to put in a shoutout to a site that I’ve discovered in [...]
Last weekend I was playing a poker tournament, some 90 or more people. Low buyin, but it was a private tourney so part of the reason to play is to be playing some people that I know. For the last year my main computer has been a laptop. Pretty basic one that I purchased during [...]
Would you rather be respected at the poker table, or feared? There are even times that it’s better to be disrespected, the premise of the LAG style, hoping to tilt players or pick up big hands when people get frustrated with your play. Recently I was playing a tourney with some people, many of whom [...]
nanowrimo08; that’s the tag for posts related to Nanowrimo for this year. I’m participating this year. For those of you that aren’t familiar with it, Nanowrimo is National Novel Writing Month, which takes place each November. People who are participating are challenged to write 50,000 words of a novel, or, 1,700 words per day. Apparently, [...]
Years ago I was considering doing an MBA. Along with grades from undergraduate studies, recommendations and relevant work experience, the other thing that MBA programs consider for admission is the score on the Graduate Management Admissions Test, or GMAT. This is the equivalent of the MCAT for med school or LSAT for law school. Image [...]