August 22, 2008 - 2:49 am
Tags: casino, Games, night, Poker, winning
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Two nights ago, I got a chance to go to a kitchen game poker night that a coworker was putting on. The whole idea for the night was to play dealer’s choice poker from the set of crazy games that people have come up with over the years. We weren’t allowed to choose the casino [...]
April 23, 2008 - 2:57 pm
Tags: Games, nhl, playoffs, simulator, winning
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I posted before the first round playoffs started to present some output from my NHL playoff simulator. How’d it do at predicting the results? Well let’s have a look. I removed the later round predictions from the last post just to clean this up and make it easier to read. Correct predictions are in bold. [...]
April 22, 2008 - 12:49 pm
Tags: casino, dublin, Poker, trip, winning
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I recently got back from Dublin for a job interview. For a full trip report visit minoragenda.com … but this post will summarize my experience at a Dublin casino for some poker. On Saturday night, Aaron and Darse were thinking about going to play some poker so Diane graciously let me join them instead of [...]
April 13, 2008 - 7:11 pm
Tags: dublin, job, night, photos, trip
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It’s been pretty busy the past few days. In the evenings after work I spent a large amount of time uploading backlogged photos to Flickr. I’ve gotten pretty far into my backlog, and I’ve almost got caught up to the point where I can start to post new photos again (and I’ve got a few [...]
March 4, 2008 - 10:14 pm
Tags: dublin, interview, job, Poker, positive, trip
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Well today I was a nervous wreck. For quite some time I’ve been considering applying for a job with pocket kings — the company that writes and manages the software and details behind full tilt poker. A couple of former UofA grads have got prominent positions there and they’ve been making the case that I [...]
March 1, 2008 - 9:24 am
Tags: Games, night, Poker, session, stakes, winning
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It has been awhile since I last seriously tried to move up in limits at Poker. I’ve only really done it a handful of time. From my starting ground of 0.5/1 full ring limit I moved up twice to 1/2 and 2/4 limit. Then I started playing 6max no limit at 50nl, and moved up [...]
February 25, 2008 - 4:45 pm
Tags: Games, hockey, night, playoffs, winning
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Oiler Pregame, originally uploaded by Heraldk. My friend and roommate was kind enough to give me a spare ticket he had for a recent hockey game between the Oilers and the Minnesota Wild. It was a fun night, and our Oilers managed to win the game! I wish the Oilers had managed to put together [...]
February 11, 2008 - 4:34 pm
Tags: night, trip
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Canmore at night, originally uploaded by Heraldk. Taken hand-held with my new Canon 17-55 f/2.8. A couple of friends and I went on a ski trip to Banff recently. This was taken on our way to get some munchies at Sobeys before retiring to our hotel in Canmore.
February 8, 2008 - 4:33 pm
Tags: trip
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Distant Mountain, originally uploaded by Heraldk. Taken from the recent CS Department ski trip which hit Jasper for the last weekend of Jasper in January. On Sunday of that weekend, we traditionally do the Maligne Canyon hike which is pretty spectacular. This the view about 1/4 of the way up the hike.