In the first part of this article I talked about making fewer starting hand mistakes in Limit Holdem which isn’t as simple as playing aces kings and ace-king only. The next most common mistake limit players make is continuing on the flop and turn with bad draws. What is a bad draw? A bad draw is a draw that will not win enough money when you win to offset your current and future contributions to the pot when you lose. A beginner’s approach to this is to look at the pot odds for a... Read Full Story
No, it’s not September, the title of the post is what sucks. Last month, for me at least, was one of the worst months ever. It wasn’t the worst month in the sense that my children were run over by buses or my wife was killed in an auto crash it was the worst in the sense of a huge number of moments and events during the month that yielded the key phrase “are you fucking kidding me?” Some examples? Ok let’s take a look at money. I work as a consultant/contract programme... Read Full Story
Dell warranty service finally repaired my PC (for details see the Dell Sucks blog entry). The issue turned out to be a burnt out capacitor on the motherboard and the motherboard took THREE WEEKS to arrive. That’s three weeks without access to a critical PC and that’s after suffering at least an hour of disassembling my PC for the Indian tech support person over the phone. This really is the definition of total suckage and for me at least is a reason to consider other PCs wh... Read Full Story
Yes it’s suckage that it’s taken this long but at least at the end of this month you’ll be able to shoot those pictures, etc. to your friends. In case you didn’t see the hint, AT&T MMS support for iPhone will happen September 25th, 2009. Read Full Story
Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "Low Limit Poker". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and add your own article! Read Full Story
A couple of days ago one of the Dell PCs here stopped working abruptly with a brief blue screen and then a full instant power down and the absolute refusal to power up again. After checking the usual suspects (opening the case clearing dust and letting the system cool down) the problem persisted so it was time to give Dell Technical support a call. What’s the Frequency Kenneth? The first step, of course, is to get the phone number to call. A trip over to support.dell.com re... Read Full Story
People who write public blogs often want to promote them. I’m not 100% certain but I am guessing that often times one of the things these people do (ok it’s me!) is search for promote blog in Google. There are a number of interesting results in the free section but one real eye-catcher in the paid advertising section: Distribute my blog posts for free AND it’s free as well?! Holy shiznit I wonder if it’s free? The idea behind their site is that you can sign up your blogs a... Read Full Story
In poker it's not so much about being great it's more about sucking less In many sports your goal is to be stronger, faster, tougher, whatever than your opponents. If you are a runner you want to run fastest, if you are a jumper you want to jump highest. However, if you are a poker player you want to suck less and of course by sucking less I mean you want to make fewer mistakes than your opponents and you want to find opponents who make more (and worse!) mistakes than you do. ... Read Full Story
You know, I honestly had wanted to use this blog for the technical things that frustrated me but the world keeps throwing other things at me that frustrate me even more. Sarah Palin recently made a post on Facebook suggesting that the proposed healthcare reform would create what she called death panels which would determine who is worth of health care. There are no death panels in the healthcare reform package. MoveOn.org has released a list of the “Top 5 Health Care Lies” and t... Read Full Story
Since the last poker explosion which I’ll give full credit to the World Poker Tour for creating, there have been a number of poker shows on TV. Many of them weren’t very good (Celebrity Poker on Bravo anyone?) but none of them were as bad as this horrible piece of crap brought to you by the creative forces of Full Tilt poker and NBC. The only show that comes close to the “What the hell were you thinking…” moments of this one was Ultimate Blackjack which I think lasted almost an en... Read Full Story
