10 posts tagged “poker”

Pat and Adam haven't revealed themselves yet.  I dunno what's going on with them but I'll find out eventually I suppose.

I've started keeping records of my poker experiences to try to gather data to help determine weather sites are cheating or not.  I do not have enough data to conclude yet, but it's not looking good so far.  :P  The following isn't the least probable thing to happen, just the most recent. 

Bubble of a 90 man.
Way down from my high for retarded flops already.
In shoving straights.
99.
pot raise.
one call.
flop 838.
same raise.
forces me in.
I call.
AQ off.
turn?
Q.
river?
A just to rub it in.

Just ignore the audio.  It's an audio recording of Anthem by Ayn Rand from Thought Audio if you're interested.  For those curious I had 61% chance of winning the first hand and 60% the second.  Only 15.6% chance of losing both.  That doesn't even take into account the odds of running into hands as good as I did, but I don't think that would have had much of an impact.

I have finished PoP3.  It had an extremely satisfying ending, for me anyway.  I like that kind of thing.  Grand game.  Little shorter than I want, of course, and one or two of the giant puzzles got kinda tedious, but a grand game still.  I might play through on hard to see what I unlock if I do.  I need to look into that new one they're making.

I've also been losing at some poker.  That's not the point of this paragraph though.  The point is that I found (N@N told me) a program that does video capture.  So now I can bring you all of the best poker hands I experience.  Nothing really great has happened, so I'll spare you for now, but be prepared.

Second verse is... pretty much the same as the first.

I didn't play any poker for a while because today (by awake terms) and yesterday (by standardized time) was the day designated for seeing Die Hard 4.  The plan was very loose, and I didn't want to be involved in any poker when my friends showed up to take me away.  So I avoided the game until I got back and my friends were all home asleep.  I decided to play a game starting at about 4 am.  I don't normally, but I was feeling awake still.  I just won it.  Hooray.  Long time since I've had such a successful game.  The stat's thing says I lost a pot in showdown, but I don't remember what it was.  Probably something where nobody bet and I just didn't have the high kicker.  Other than that I lost only $300 throughout to semi-bluff.  I won playing only 8% of total hands too, which is weirdly low.  Took out 3 and 2 in 2 hands consecutively.  Very clean, I liked it.  That's why I'm spending so much time writing about it.  I would just tell Donny, but he's not responding, so blame him for this paragraph if you are annoyed by it.

Live free or die hard

Die Hard 4 was pretty awesome.  The action was ridiculous, but really didn't seem so bad at the time I was watching it.  They pulled it off well.  There is the classic hacker stuff, needless graphics, and there's always the one man on t he planet capable of some hack job, but whatever.  Even with the tech stuff they seemed to be a little more realistic than the average action flick.  The best part for me was the one liners.  I laughed quite a bit.  They were well written and excellently delivered.  I enjoy one liners very much.  Pat, Aaron and I agree, you would love it.

To occupy my time while I wasn't playing poker I played Overlord.  After tracking down some drivers that made my graphics card more acceptable, this game is quite enjoyable.  You command a band of humorous minions that pillage and kill at your command.  You are undoubtedly evil, but through your actions you can be more CE or LE (D&D reference for those who are confused).  The whole game has a definite sense of humor.  The semi-cartoony graphics allow for this humor to be portrayed in the actions of the characters, as well as in small gimmicks, such as your minions using pumpkin shells and rat corpses as helmets when those "enemies" are "slain".  Keston recommended the demo to me several weeks ago, just to site my source.

In other news, today is someone's birthday.  I can't seem to remember whose.  Too bad I've already deleted the three e-mails I've received from various online applications.  Maybe I'll get another.

I woke up at about 10 pm on the 4th of July and went to the fireworks.  I wasn't going to when my parents asked, but I got right up when Aaron and Kim came over a couple minutes later.  Weird.

We met up w/ Trent and then Gar and Kiggy who had chairs and blankets and stuff cause they're grown ups.  We were right in front of the barge, so the show was pretty good I thought.  We could also see one of the other cities' show, but it was tiny. 

Made smores at Aaron's after that, but only Kim and Aaron and I, cause the others had to sleep or something.

Other than that I've been watching tons of House.  I dunno why exactly.  I keep thinking I'm too tired to play poker, but not tired enough to sleep.  But it takes no energy to watch House, so I just stay in that limbo for like 8 hours.

Anyway, through I regimen of staying awake absurdly long watching House and sleeping absurdly long I'm on a regular sleep schedule again.  Probably won't last, but we'll see.

I've also played a few games of poker.  I think about 19.  Unfortunately I've hit the down turn.  17 consecutive losses, 1 3rd, and 2 more losses.  So... yeah.  I've not been playing poorly either, so I am either getting unlucky now, or was getting lucky before.  /shrug  Good thing I didn't up the stakes yet.  :P

Due to interest expressed by Ms. JennyExiled I include a wider sample of data from my diet on the days surrounding those presented in a recent post.  Obviously, I did sorta selectively choose a particularly interesting portion of my diet to present, but frankly I censor my life considerable to bring only the most delectable pieces to the blog.  The little blank gaps indicate the end of a day.

I was on my 3rd early morning/late night bike ride recently not long ago.  It was fairly uneventful.  I went out at sunrise, I know because I passed a crowing rooster.  Oh yeah, and I saw the sun rising.  I passed a guy dressed all in black walking down the street.  He had a stocking cap and everything.  He wasn't carrying any electronics or jewelry, so I'll assume he was off of work last night or something.  I also found some pretty dangerous looking dirt bike jumps I could go off in the future if I wanted to.  I doubt I will however, since I am a scaredy cat.

I think I'm going to go to sleep now.  I only slept like 6 hours yesterday, which should balance out the 14 hours from the day before, but doesn't seem to be working out.  I guess I'm in a situation in life when I can sleep whenever I'm tired and I should take full advantage of it.

I watched all the squidhat production video's on youtube.  They're put up there by Dawn and Dimitri, who pretty much run the video making organization of Linfield College.  I think the videos are pretty horrible, but for me they're entertaining cause I know everyone in them and such.  They dun have all of them up though, at least not that I could find.  None of the one's featuring me.

Just so you know, my previous post's title does not indicate a downturn in my poker winnings.  I'm currently up about 150%, steady as she goes.  Took down the last tournament I was in with a semi-bad beat.  But it was real quick and painless for the guy, and serves him right for showing his bluffing me earlier.  I dun mind being bluffed if u dun show me, showing me is just mean.

I include a video you've probably already seen, but it's funny so, just to be sure.