Archive for June, 2007
getting it all in with the best of it…
Posted by mep | Filed under poker
…in the end, it really is all you can do in poker.
After shoving as a 91% favorite with one to come and exiting the tournament when a 2 outer shows up, all you can do is shake your head and look for a new game.
That’s 3 exits in a row where I got all my [...]
how to win the local friends/office poker game
Posted by mep | Filed under poker
Go to Vegas, play a $1500 or $2000 No Limit World Series of Poker event
come home and don’t worry about playing a solid game at the WSOP
play your normal $10 No Limit game with family/friends/coworkers
From a financial perspective, it makes no sense. I took down the local game for a whopping profit of $40 after [...]
did you blink?
Posted by mep | Filed under wsop
If you did blink, you might have missed my WSOP play.
After buying into Event #27 – $1500 No-Limit, I lasted 45 minutes and played exactly one hand.
I pushed all my chips in the middle holding trip 5’s (three fives) and my opponent called on a flush draw. Even know I was a 84% favorite, [...]
Off to the WSOP
Posted by mep | Filed under wsop
Well, Friday morning I push off to Vegas to play some WSOP events.
I’m excited about logging some serious poker hours. I’m not going to get wiggy and put the entire roll into one, say a 5k, event. That’s a bit too much of a lottery ticket mentality.
There are a lot of events to [...]
adding your netflix queue via RSS
Posted by mep | Filed under java, tech
I’ve been messing with XSLT a good bit and decided I needed a small project to work some muscles to their fell extent. When i found that NetFlix offers a number of RSS feeds for their users, I decided to add my NetFlix Queue to my site.
I could have found a taglib and added a [...]