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 [...]
July 9, 2008 - 12:54 pm
Tags: blog, photos, Poker, session, update, winning
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Polaris Wins! Our computer poker program took on some of the best poker pros and came out on top! Sorry for the lack of updates here. If you haven’t figured out, my travel blog has moved over to minoragenda, so if you want to read about our adventures in detail, please head on over there. [...]
May 24, 2008 - 2:04 pm
Tags: Poker, positive, session, variance, winning
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Something every poker player has to learn is to cope with variance. At times, variance can be your best friend, but at other times it can be your villain that not only kicks you in the crotch, but then slams you with a baseball bat to the head while you’re down. Case in point, my [...]
I’m starting to go a tad crazy I think. This week has been insanely busy. It seems like I keep getting things piled on me. Work has been exceptionally busy as we madly prepare for the upcoming man-machine poker match. I’ve had a pile of fairly little tasks to do along with a couple of [...]
April 23, 2008 - 2:57 pm
Tags: Games, nhl, playoffs, simulator, winning
Posted in Games, Sports | 1 comment
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 [...]
March 29, 2008 - 1:08 pm
Tags: cprg, night, Poker, suckout
Posted in Games, My Life, Poker | 3 comments
Last Night, the CPRG met up for a poker night. We got a great turnout. 15 people bought in for ten bucks, and we played a NL freezeout. We had most of the members of the CPRG, a few people from Biotools, and a special guest: Bryce Paradis. Bryce is an amazing heads-up limit player [...]
March 18, 2008 - 7:00 pm
Tags: blog, interview, job, Poker, update
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It’s been quite awhile since my last general update, so I figured I’d give a quick update. The interview process is still underway. I’m not entirely sure what the status is, but it looks like I might be scheduling a visit for Diane and I over there to check out the office and have a [...]
March 11, 2008 - 9:55 pm
Tags: dublin, interview, job, Poker
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Well it didn’t go too bad. I think. It’s hard to say. I … was a little nervous. This was the first real set of interviews I’ve had since I interviewed for a internship between my third and fourth years. I had a couple interviews then – one on the phone with IBM that went [...]