Archive for the ‘rambling’ Category

WSOP trip report

July 12, 2009 | 4:42 am | Derk

I’m back from the WSOP so I figured I’d write up a trip report.  No pictures though because my digital camera, which is now 4 years old, has some problems and my phone’s camera kinda sucks too.  Time to upgrade.
I got in on the evening of June 8th and promptly got lost getting to my [...]

Security for the online poker player

May 2, 2009 | 3:14 am | Derk

One of the mailing lists I’m on had a message the other day about those late night TV ads talking about companies that will give you a computer with no credit and monthly plans.  The conversation then turned to computer security and I started giving out some advice on security.  I realized I’ve basically regurgitated [...]

Tournaments are gay

April 17, 2009 | 6:03 pm | Derk

Obligatory title for future rungood purposes, obviously.
I bought some computer stuff and a Nintendo DS this month, so poker playing is on the back burner for a while. So, I’m mostly just putting in points to keep iron man on FTP (I don’t want to spend medals on buying a month). After the [...]

Someone hide me from FRANK please

March 26, 2009 | 5:28 am | Derk

March is wrapping up and it’s been another fairly lazy month at least on the playing front. Thanks to about 10k in tournament cashes this is going to be my best month ever though. While I wasn’t sick this month I did have a lot of other stuff going on like watching too [...]

Grab bag

March 9, 2009 | 3:49 pm | Derk

On poker…
Another kind of bleh month where I’m not playing a bunch.  Since I’m not exactly going broke anymore I’ve lost the motivation to play a lot, plus a variance filled March hasn’t helped much.  I can also see a lot of sports getting in the way soon (see below).  In January I really wanted [...]

March Madness

March 3, 2009 | 2:56 am | Derk

Despite only being 2 days old, March has been pretty damn nuts for me.  I moved up and was at one point -4k in EV on the month.  I was down over 2k today, which would have been my biggest losing day ever, until I had a magical session and won over 5k in less [...]

Being sick sucks

February 5, 2009 | 6:12 pm | Derk

Weather:
Sunny -> Partly cloudy: charge persisting

Poker

Low volume

Health

Major sinus infection/ear problems

Furniture

Recliner coming tomorrow

Finance

FTP check arrived, covering medical & furniture costs

Dying warning tomorrow, decease dictated unless revised otherwise.
Journal may continue under natural providence.
If you don’t get it, this is written in a style similar to an old computer engineering student of mine, whose melancholic, yet strangely poetic, [...]

My Poker Story (part 2)

February 1, 2009 | 4:14 am | Derk

In February of 2007 I figured it was safe to put some money back online, so I redeposited a little and started playing sit-and-gos. I kept playing them through the summer and got to the point where I was fairly confident that if I really needed to, I could grind out enough money to [...]

lol what a joke

January 30, 2009 | 1:08 am | Derk

NumSNGs : 239 (NumDataPoints=1979)
> 2-way=1822, 3-way=154, multiway=3
[...]

My Poker Story (part 1)

January 23, 2009 | 4:51 am | Derk

My first exposure to poker was in September of 2005, when I was 24.  I had just come back to the University of Louisville after spending a year in Canada doing cryptography research at the University of Waterloo.   I had done my Masters degree at UofL so I slipped right back into teaching & working [...]