February 2005

Feedback Needed

February 14, 2005 Poker

Hey, I just wanted to post a couple of feelers to get some sort of indication of interest. Suggestion #1: An email alias (or mailing list) for LA bloggers. A couple of nights I’ve found myself thinking about heading out to the casino and realized I didn’t really want to go just by myself. If [...]

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Google Fight: Phil Hellmuth vs. Dutch Boyd

February 13, 2005 Poker

For those of you not familiar with Google Fights, they are a way to use Google to arrive at scientifically significant decisions*. You take a keyword and google for it and then you take a competing keyword and google for that and the winner is the one with the most results. Here, we present Phil [...]

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Doyle Doing a Book Signing

February 13, 2005 Poker

Doyle Brunson will be doing a book signing at Commerce from 5:30 – 7pm on Thurs, Feb 17. Of course, I will be in San Jose on Feb 17th so I won’t be able to go. Dammit!

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Stages of Development

February 12, 2005 Poker

I ran across a few interesting links that I thought I would throw out there without much commentary. I’m mostly doing the sans impression thing because I’m still absorbing some of this and don’t have much to say at the moment. The first is somewhat similar to one of my favorite HDouble posts titled, A [...]

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Vegas casino bets on RFID

February 9, 2005 Poker

Looks like the Vegas casinos are starting to entertain the idea of RFID tags inplanted into the casino chips. For those not familiar wiht RFID it’s short for radio frequency identification. Companies like WalMart use it to track warehouse inventory. The casinos can use it to prevent fraud but also so they can keep track [...]

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Play Poker Like The Bros

February 6, 2005 Poker

If you caught the Tilt episode where (I forget his name) and (I forget his name) go to play in some backroom game at a hip-hop/strip/dance club, this 2+2 post will probably make much more sense.

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Bloggers Aren’t That Bad

February 6, 2005 Poker

For those of you bloggers who have felt a little geeky at some of our get togethers, think of these guys before being so hard on yourself.

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Seeing The World Through Their Eyes

February 5, 2005 Poker

Have you ever been left scratching your head trying to figure out why your opponent played the hand the way he did? I certainly did so I found a fish and hooked him up to the USB port on my computer and did the same to myself. The results of this experiment are below: This [...]

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