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Won $13.50 in a 90 player tournament today for getting 5th place. That sucks. I was in first place for a good 15 minutes there, and then I started bleeding chips and got killed as a result of a bad kicker. That blows, I have to say. What really sucks is when you’ve invested ( Read more... )

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So my work currently owns floors on two (maybe three) different buildings, and apparently they just bought another floor on one of the buildings, which my whole department is now moving into. This is a good thing for me in the long-term, because my phone doesn’t get any ( Read more... )

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Apparently there’s downloadable content for Fallout 3 that just came out. But in order to get it, you have to spend Microsoft/Xbox Live! Points on it. These are basically meaningless points that make no sense and don’t easily convert to dollars in a coherent way (this is ( Read more... )

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Sometimes I get in the mood for a good RPG. A good RPG to me constitutes something very character driven and story-heavy. I’m not big on hack ‘n slash.

It occurred to me today, however, that the world is. If the world were a D&D game, it would be less important to maximize ( Read more... )

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Every time I do, I go home, play a game, and lose a lot of money.

I was doing extremely well today. I took a bad beat and lost 50 bucks, leaving me with a mere 20, to which I clawed my ass back up to 70 dollars. It took four hours, but I was extremely proud of myself. Then ( Read more... )

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Won $21 at poker last night. Not bad. Won it at a 0.25/0.50 cent table, which is the first time I’ve ever played at that level before.

I’m using a free-trial of some poker software called Poker Tracker, which basically keeps track of all of your hands, games, sessions, ( Read more... )

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I wish it weren’t so, but it really seems to be. I was talking to a couple of friends several weeks ago, and one mentioned that his girlfriend’s roommate spends most of her day blogging on the internet. He then quickly added, without either of us saying anything, that it’s ( Read more... )

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Lost about $20 on poker last night. About 12 of that was completely avoidable.

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As another aside, it’s been a while (I think) since I’ve done a poker update. I invested some money into some software that attaches itself to the room I’m playing in to give me the proper pot odds and odds of making my hand. Pretty expensive software, but I figure I’ve ( Read more... )

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So Amber and I spent the weekend moving into our new place. I say the weekend since that’s when we actually got the moving truck, but we have been packing for about a week, and even now we still have a few odds and ends to pick up from our old place, not to mention there’s ( Read more... )