Hey guys. I’ve got some things to say coming up in the next few weeks but I think I can start to share a bit more now that we’re only a few days away…I haven’t just disappeared from the site but I’ve been doing a ton of behind-the-scenes work that is going to debut to you — our little DC family — in just a few days. I hope you’re as excited as I am.
Here’s a small preview from everyone’s favorite hacker, qu4ck3rs (mcduck).
Busy. Too busy. I’ve been resting my foot (at this point probably too much but I’m a bit scared to re-injure it right now), not really playing too much poker (a few thousand hands of NL but nothing exciting), and have been working a ton. I wish I had something exciting to post here but I really don’t. Holiday parties are pretty much done, though, w/the exception of Christmas day, so hopefully next week I’ll have a little more time to be interesting.
Goals for next week: run 2x, play a few hours of poker, work hard on a few projects, and spend a bit more time w/the family. Wish me luck.
I don’t want to make a habit out of just randomly sharing Youtube videos on my bog, but I had to with this one. This is insane. But awesome.
I noticed something today while I was talking about a pretty simple hand today with a friend. The hand really isn’t all that important but the discussion we had — or at least the process behind the question — was.
The hand itself was pretty boring and would’ve gotten a one word response had I posted it in the forums: bet the flop. Somehow instead though, we got sidetracked on the hypothetical questions that surround a hand, the what ifs, and it turned into something pretty interesting (I think) rather than some simple question/answer format.
What was a pretty simple question turned into a 30 minute discussion. About one hand.
Poker’s often a pretty simple game but it gets interesting when you think about the simple changes that can make an interesting hand boring or a boring hand interesting. I think that’s the area where those who are willing to practice hypotheticals really begin to stand out from the crowd. Give it a try the next time you post something in the forums.
So annoying. Rather than getting a lot of work done as I had hoped today I’m going to have to head into the doc to make sure I didn’t break my foot. I ran the Seattle half marathon 2 weeks ago, and ever since then, I’ve had shooting pains occasionally on the left side of my foot. Meh. I expected them to go away but they haven’t yet. So in I go — wish me luck.
On a side note (poker-related) I’ve been playing around at PokerParadime which seems pretty cool.
More later. Gotta go run good so that I can run again.