September, 2006 Archives

The magical Google power of the word “jerk”

September 28th, 2006 · Posted in geek stuff · 1 Comment

Ever since my post entitled where I declared that Jamie Gold appeared to be a jerk, I’ve been innundated with Google hits.  The most common combo is “Jamie Gold jerk”, but I’ve also got “Leyser jerk”, “Molina jerk”, “Jamie Gold is a jerk”, “Jamie Gold poker jerk” and sadly “shark jerk”.  I don’t know if [...]

General poker malaise.

September 26th, 2006 · Posted in Uncategorized, poker · 2 Comments

I seem to have relatively little interest in poker the past week or so.  I’ve played very little and not really been very into it when I did play.  This may be because I had one of those sessions where I lost set over set every time I turned around, or to some insane suckout.  [...]

I’m apparently obsessed with Jamie Gold

September 14th, 2006 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

I’ve gotten some static from a few people that I don’t really know what the situation is with Jamie Gold and Crispin Leyser is and that speculation is unfounded.  They often focus on the fact that Gold has never publicly stated an intention not to pay Leyser.  I have always thought that was silly, since [...]

Last Night’s WSOP telecast on ESPN

September 13th, 2006 · Posted in poker · 0 Comments

I’m such a geek, that at one point when ESPN is showing their crane shot of the poker room I’m checking out the table numbers to see if they are showing one of teh tables I played at.  Like maybe they will have a plaque commemorating my presence of something.  I have no idea why [...]

Two weeks of checking out WPEX

September 5th, 2006 · Posted in poker · 3 Comments

I’ve spent some time playing at WPEX lately.  For those of you who don’t know, WPEX is a room that is running a 100% rake rebate deal.  Each week, they accumulate your rake and give it back to you.  I assume that one day they plan to stop (because otherwise they don’t make any money), [...]