Lean Back parody…Red Sox style!
Harrah’s has announced the schedule for the 2005 World Series of Poker. The WSOP will begin “its evolution from a month-long special event into a year-round sport.”
Players will earn points based on their performance in the circuit tournaments and the World Series of Poker. The top 100 point-earners will receive a free invitation to the 2005 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions, where a single winner will take home a top prize of $2 million.
Blog Explosion: Explode your blog traffic! Seems like the latest thing in blogging… Will it survive? I doubt it! If it brings a few people to the site and they end up coming back because they like what they see, then I guess it’s worth it.
Step 4 in my home poker series is about creating a special poker atmosphere for your game.
Greektown Casino in Detroit is now holding what they call Lightning Round Tournaments. They sound just like a sit-n-go to me. Might have to check this out some day.
The Detroit Lions are 3-0 on the road this year after going two full seasons without a single win away from home. Too bad they’re only 1-2 at home.
Some of the commercials on TV for The Day After Tomorrow had parts that made me want to see the movie and parts that made it look too much out of this world. I decided to watch the movie anyway. I thought it was pretty good, so I’m glad I did.
The basic idea behind the movie is a change in the North Atlantic current which sends the Earth’s climate into a machine change. This change involves a new ice age in the northern hemisphere. It’s sounds pretty whacky, but it was done exceptionally well. I thought the special effects were some of the best I’ve seen in recent movies. It can’t be easy to simulate the flooding of New York City by 20+ foot waves from the ocean. The freezing that came down from the upper atmosphere was pretty cool too. The movie had more than special effects to it though. There was a typical feel good family story involved and also a friend giving his life to help keep a father’s promise to his son.
Not one of the greatest movies I’ve ever seen, but worth watching. It gets a B.
Just ordered a few new books…
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Can someone please explain the difference between these two devices? Both allow you to move a cursor or object in all directions on your screen and both have one button. Besides the obvious color, shape, and size differences, I think these two devices are the same. Please convince me otherwise…
First another big thanks to Iggy for setting up WBPT V. Also a quick note to mention that there was a celebrity at the tables. It was Wil Wheaton, who you may know from his roles in the series Star Trek: The Next Generation. Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, I can talk about the tournament…
After learning about the $20 NLHE tournament for poker bloggers and their readers, I was undecided if I would try it out. After all, I figured I would be dead money with my limited No-Limit experience in what would prove to be a quality field of 133 poker players. A few days before the tournament, I started an account on Poker Stars and deposited $50. Thursday rolled around and I made the choice to play. I figured the $20 would be a good investment because it would get me a chance to get my name out there and drive traffic to my poker blog. I surely didn’t expect to make the cut or win any money. I was looking at the tournament as an investment.
