tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42430552063276898632008-08-20T09:19:37.257-07:00Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10500722547077537044noreply@blogger.comBlogger177125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4243055206327689863.post-6397863852020541762008-08-19T22:33:00.000-07:002008-08-20T09:19:03.740-07:00

Full Tilt Poker Game #_: $110 + $9 Sit & Go (Turbo) (_), Table 1 - 15/30 - No Limit Hold'em - 1:28:58 ET - 2008/08/20 Seat 1: (1,485) Seat 2: (1,470) Seat 3: villain (1,500) Seat 4: hero (1,500) Seat 5: (1,500) Seat 6: (1,545) Seat 2 posts the small blind of 15 villain posts the big blind of 30 The button is in seat #1 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to hero [Qs Ad] hero raises to 105 Seat 5 calls 105

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You'll recall I blogged about San Mateo County Sheriff's deputies busting a home poker tournament. I've found yet more proof that law enforcement priorities are messed up in San Mateo County: The SM County Sheriff and his undersheriff were recently busted in a Las Vegas massage parlor raid by Las Vegas Police. Chris Hanson says, "So, what are you doing here?"

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6th out of 477. $50+$5->$1192.50. Fastest turn-around time between MTT cashes either online or B&M.

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That graph is my SnG finish positions for the last two days. 27 percent of the time, I've cashed. 27 percent of the time, I've come in fucking fourth. Makes me want to cry. I can't identify any mistakes at all. I've just gotten totally ass-raped.

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You know, it's cold decks like this that make me second guess myself so constantly. I spent quite some time building up a nice little stack. And then shit like this happens: Full Tilt Poker Game #_: Turbo Hundo (_), Table 7 - 30/60 - No Limit Hold'em - 3:18:17 ET - 2008/08/12 Seat 1: (1,920) Seat 2: (1,170) Seat 3: (1,880) Seat 4: (2,350) Seat 5: (1,890) Seat 6: (1,705) Seat 7: villain (2,100)

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2nd out of 448. $50+$5 -> $3472.00. That's my best online tournament cash, both in percentage beat and cash. I've done better a couple times at Bay 101, but never online. Heads-up was brief. We started the last hand almost exactly equal and I went all-in with a king and was called by AJo and neither of us hit. Oh well.

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This was very, very early in a 400 player MTT. That, in and of itself, should say something about the result of this hand. Full Tilt Poker Game #_: Turbo Fiddy (_), Table 25 - 40/80 - No Limit Hold'em - 1:21:13 ET - 2008/08/08 Seat 1: Mario (2,037) Seat 2: (2,685) Seat 3: (2,610) Seat 4: hero (4,040) Seat 5: (2,020) Seat 6: (3,290) Seat 7: Luigi (2,460) Seat 8: (2,165) Seat 9: (1,670) Luigi

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According to this /. article, the music industries own studies have affirmed the idea that it is better for bands and for the music industry to just give away MP3s and let the resulting increase in popularity drive concert ticket sales. Gee, you think? Isn't this the exact same concept as allowing music to be played, more or less, for free on the radio (yes, radio stations pay for music rights,

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10500722547077537044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4243055206327689863.post-55946469666941961362008-08-04T18:06:00.000-07:002008-08-04T18:06:00.683-07:00

Well, I spent some more time fiddling with the antennas. I've actually turned the VHF beam southeast to try and pick up KSBW and KCBA (Salinas) from Fremont Peak. Here's where things stand: DTV stations that come in perfectly, with no issues: KPIX, KQED, KBCW, KICU, KCSM, KTEH, KKPX, KCNS, KSTS, KTSF, KGO, KMTP, KBWB, KFSF, KNTV DTV stations that are marginal - most of the time they're fine,

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10500722547077537044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4243055206327689863.post-17259424422280481512008-07-30T21:36:00.000-07:002008-07-30T22:30:04.461-07:00

Very. First. Hand. Full Tilt Poker Game #_: $28 + $2 Sit & Go (Super Turbo) (_), Table 1 - 15/30 - No Limit Hold'em - 0:03:08 ET - 2008/07/31 Seat 1: (300) Seat 2: (300) Seat 3: hero (300) Seat 4: (300) Seat 5: villain_a (300) Seat 6: (300) Seat 7: villain_b (300) Seat 8: (300) Seat 9: (300) Seat 1 posts the small blind of 15 Seat 2 posts the big blind of 30 The button is in seat #9 *** HOLE

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I've been playing the super turbo tournaments at Full Tilt lately. It works well with my short attention span. Full Tilt Poker Game #_: $28 + $2 Sit & Go (Super Turbo) (_), Table 1 - 15/30 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:15:54 ET - 2008/07/27 Seat 1: villain (330) Seat 2: hero (255) Seat 3: (300) Seat 4: (270) Seat 5: (300) Seat 6: (300) Seat 7: Luigi (300) Seat 8: (300) Seat 9: Mario (345) Seat 4 posts

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ABC News recently had a video on My Yahoo that had the "worst" foods purported to be good for you (alas, I don't have a deep link to the video). First on the list of diet soda. The silly woman said that those who drink diet soda are heavier than those who don't, so you shouldn't drink diet soda. Uh, newsflash: You've got the cause and the effect backwards there. People who are heavy drink diet

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One issue I've always had with satellite TV is that before recently, every tuner has required so-called "home run" wiring. That is, a coax run all the way from the receiver to either the dish or a multiplexer, with no splitters in-between. The reason for this is that there needs to be a communication path from the tuner back to the dish (or multiplexer) so that it can select which set of

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Well, I gave up on getting an iPhone 3G today, but my lovely wife Scarlet didn't. She called up the Valley Fair Apple store and they still had some. Clearly Apple has managed to prepare for the launch better than AT&T. For the most part, the new phone isn't really that distinguishable from its older counterpart. It's a little bit lighter, and the 3G network is noticeably faster. The bad news is

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Go click on this link. It's a 404 page now, but it used to be the home of Apple's retail stores. Why they'd move that page is a giant mystery to me, but whatever. Go to the bottom of that page. There's a link to click on to visit an Apple retail store. That link takes you to -- wait for it -- that same page. I have no words. EDIT: At some point later that week, they fixed it. It was, at the

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I was not angry since I came to France Until this instant. - Henry V, Act IV Scene VII I was confronted with a situation this morning of such effrontery that I can't leave it alone. A couple weeks ago, I dropped my iPhone and the screen got cracked. I took it to the Apple store and they basically said that it would cost as much to repair it as it would to simply wait for the iPhone 3G and

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First, we have to start with the video in question: Oliver Hudson and Sam Farha are playing the very first hand of the WSOP main event. Hudson flops tens-full and loses. Lots of the commentators on YouTube berate Hudson for going out on hand 1, but I think they're wrong. If you don't go broke in that spot, you're not getting full value out of your monsters in the long run. Let's look at the

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I have a day job, so I don't play during working hours. Even if I didn't have a day job, I think I would refrain. Here's a small example of why: This is the SharkScope dump of a $33+$3 tournament that started at about 12:30 PM PDT today. There are 4 players with positive ROIs and 1000+ tournaments of experience, and one of those has a 20% ROI. Two out of the three negative ROI players have too

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10500722547077537044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4243055206327689863.post-68729339244795198892008-06-23T06:39:00.000-07:002008-06-23T06:45:17.117-07:00

So for a while now, I've had to use SharkScope in Camino. It turns out, though, that if you use the "Develop" menu in Safari to change the user agent to Opera for mac, the page will work correctly. I managed to get the page sort-of working with the IE5 user agent as well, but the login widget wouldn't work. Opera for mac, however, seems to do the trick. It's also possible, however, that the

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PokerStars Game #_: Tournament #_, $15+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2008/06/19 - 21:37:59 (ET) Table '_ 1' 9-max Seat #1 is the button Seat 1: (1545 in chips) Seat 2: hero (1460 in chips) Seat 3: (1515 in chips) Seat 4: (1390 in chips) Seat 5: (2955 in chips) Seat 6: (1250 in chips) Seat 8: (1600 in chips) Seat 9: (1785 in chips) hero: posts small blind 15 Seat 3: posts big

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I've finally decided on how our TVs are going to be set up from now on. I thought I'd share how I did it. In our house, we've got 4 TV receiver type devices. Two of them have DirecTV HR21 DVRs, one is a TV in the guest bedroom with an ATSC tuner, one is an HD HomeRun ATSC decoder on the network for the computers. We actually have 8 RG6 cable runs in our house, which is a lot given its small

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So we've had a few days now with the HR21, and I have to say, it's nice. As I said in my last post, I don't particularly miss the TiVo menu system. The HR21 shows a picture-in-picture view of the current program while you're in the menus or in the guide, unlike the TiVos. I also hooked our receivers to the network, which enabled home media viewing and DirecTV on demand. It took a day or two for

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So we finally decided to move with the cheese. Every DVR we've ever owned has been a TiVo, and the last few have been so-called "DirecTiVos" - DirecTV DVRs powered by the TiVo software. But not so long ago DirecTV ended their relationship with TiVo and started making their own DVRs. They also launched new satellites to carry HD programming that were not going to be compatible with the TiVo DVRs.

Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10500722547077537044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4243055206327689863.post-62426110948214473882008-05-29T21:35:00.000-07:002008-05-29T21:52:19.985-07:00

This morning on my way to work, I got hit by the northbound CalTrain train that I was supposed to board at the Santa Clara station. I was taken to the hospital to be checked out, but only suffered from bruises and scrapes and needed two stitches on my forehead. Service was delayed for everyone else for 20 minutes while the police investigated. For those inconvenienced, and to the crew of the

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I just spent 3 days at the WPT Boot Camp Champion's camp. There they teach advanced no-limit hold'em tournament strategy. I won't spill the beans on everything I've learned, but I did pick up a few tweaks to my game that I hope will make the difference. I came in 3rd in the STT, and made an early exit in the MTT, but both of those were just cold decks. I've learned first and foremost that you

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