2+2=4, or How I gave up my pride and apologized to TheEngineer

Gee, that wasn't so bad. I finally gave up my pride a bit and hollered at TheEngineer on Twitter, and after some détente (and my effuse apology) he forgave me for the drunken pissing match with him which got me the sheer majority of my infraction points, and which ultimately and inevitably (as I was hanging out in the politics forum which gets you 5 infraction points a week just on principle) resulted in my banishment from 2+2. So I'm back in as a member of the 2+2 community. Thank you very much Mr. Muny! Huzzah!

It doesn't matter, though, because we're all gonna die like the dinosaurs, any minute!

=(

Scott Manley -- Asteroid Discovery From 1980 - 2010

Song is Trifonic by Transginic (or vice versa)
Update 11/13/10: broken video fixed

Massive losing streak

Oh geez. I think I've forgotten how to play poker.

Gotta turn this around quick....

Pokerstars closes bot ring case

Via 2+2:

In total, these twelve bots won $74,439 in ring games. These accounts also won $6,305 in VIP Freerolls that were likely played by human players, not bots. In addition they collected $152,406 in various VIP Club rewards such as VIP Stellar Rewards, Milestone Cash Credits and VIP Reward Bonuses.

Apparently just short-stacking nit-bots (8% VPIP), nothing too exciting. Although the rep on the PokerCast two weeks back said they've detected bots of all sorts at all levels, I'm still staying away from the SS tables as best I can.

This Too Shall Pass

For my unlucky opponents so far this weekend. I mean, poker is complicated!

OK Go -- This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine version

Better run like hell when you hit the ground

He's gonna step on you again

I made $5,76 tonight, after being stuck $120 at the low point. Ah, cash, I've missed ya!

And, I've figured out how to embed spike videos. Been on a Happy Mondays kick all day, and no other site has the video from circa 1991. LOL Pandoraments!

I can't quite get the turn off autoplay tag to work right tho....

Update: annoying auto-play removed. I really could go for a Mikes Hard Lemonade though...

video here  

He'll never stop until he's taken the lot

So much for raping 25NL

Ugh, got stuck 3 deep-stacked buy-ins tonight. Oh well, I new it couldn't last. Viva Texas!

We can drive to any place
Day and night, to cross this state
And in the morning
Into Mexico
We will wake up

Toadies -- Tyler

And her Asian breath

Poker is hard

$!@#%%

Oh wait... let me play a few more hands....

Never mind!

(obviously, I suck at poker!)

Kurzweil says reverse engineered brain by 2020

Via Wired

The design of the brain is in the genome. The human genome has three billion base pairs or six billion bits, which is about 800 million bytes before compression, he says. Eliminating redundancies and applying loss-less compression, that information can be compressed into about 50 million bytes, according to Kurzweil.
About half of that is the brain, which comes down to 25 million bytes, or a million lines of code.

Doesn't sound too hard....

Happy Friday the 13th!

Beware the Skull of Regret! 

Obviously terrible at poker

And yet, only one losing session (-$9) since my triumphant return to the cash games. :)

Deepstacked 25NL is being very, very kind to me.

Poker Stars $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em $0.05 Ante - 8 players - View hand 858191
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

UTG+1: $28.94
Hero (MP1): $83.19
MP2: $60.49
CO: $23.25
BTN: $96.12
SB: $27.56
BB: $48.62
UTG: $65.10

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is MP1 with 7 2
2 folds, Hero raises to $1.25, 5 folds
Conan776: shows 7 2 (high card Seven)

Conan776 said, "niiiitttsss"

jmrode67 said, "everyone send him 1$"

It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?

Vangelis -- Blade Runner End Theme

The differences between Pro and Amateur golfers

From Slate's series MoneyGolf:

One of the many ways that golf boggles the mind is how you can be both so bad at it and so good. Golf will allow moments of grace, like the 5-iron that rolls to two feet or the 40-foot putt that finds the cup. For that brief, shining moment, you hit a shot as well as a human being possibly could. You will never wrongfoot an NBA defender, you will never turn on a 95 mph fastball—but on the golf course, you can occasionally equal the best in the game. Right?

Actually, no.

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Herringbone Hat poem

Another interesting Twitter stumble-upon, via DCKrantz.

The Man in the Herringbone Hat 
a poem by Rian Johnson

...
I found myself staring a moment too long
at its fine woven pattern of wool.
Mathematic and tight though I knew it to be,
in this light it swarmed, random and cruel.
...

Fare thee not well mutineer

Tourneys are really wearing me down. I play master-level poker for an hour or two only to lose on a flip to some luckbox. Pfft! (The grass is always greener.) So... I decided to go degen back to the cash tables with what little I had left. I sat down with my ~whole roll at a deep stacked 25nl table, posted, and, first hand, voilà!

Poker Stars $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em $0.05 Ante - 6 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

UTG: $53.61
Hero (MP): $50.00
CO: $35.94
BTN: $82.75
SB: $36.32
BB: $25.00

Hero posts a big blind ($0.25)

Pre Flop: ($0.90) Hero is MP with 6 5
UTG raises to $0.75, Hero calls $0.50, CO calls $0.75, 3 folds

Flop: ($2.90) A 4 8 (3 players)
UTG bets $1.25, Hero raises to $3, CO folds, UTG calls $1.75

Turn: ($8.90) J (2 players)
UTG bets $1, Hero raises to $7, UTG calls $6

River: ($22.90) 7 (2 players)
UTG bets $16.25, Hero raises to $39.20 all in, UTG calls $22.95

Final Pot: $101.30
UTG shows 8 7 (two pair, Eights and Sevens)
Hero shows 6 5 (a straight, Four to Eight)
Hero wins $99.30
(Rake: $2.00)

Ultimately ran at 591ptbb/100 for 20 hands. FU ten minute blinds!

And the carnies are NASA university grads
un-i-vers-it-y grads

Grandaddy -- Fare Thee Not Well Mutineer

And should you all crash down
And should you all crash down?
The grass was always greener
The grass was
always
greener

best poker product placement evar

A video I found via Tattytats. I concur, nice job DC! (And PokerStars!)

lprzytula -- My Google Search Poker Story