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Thursday, June 28, 2007

Apparently I'm really good at poker

So every Wednesday we have an intern poker game, usually $0.10/0.20 no limit game, max $10 buy-in. I lost $20 the first week, won a $5 tournament w/ buy-ins the next week for $36 (net 26, +6 for the year), and then last week won about $62 because I got really hot. So I'm thinking this week I'll be pretty lucky to break even by the end of the night...

Well, there were a few bad plays, but let me give you a sample of some of the ridiculousness:
Preflop someone goes all in after my reraise and also gets a call, it only costs me about $6 more (my raise was about $5 with 66). Of course I run into AA and 88. Flop gives an 8, but then the turn gives me an open ended straight draw, and of course I draw out. +$20 there.

And then after that, I get 99 on the big-blind and raise and get two callers. Flop comes 223, so I'm pretty sure no one hits. I bet $10, and the guy to my left absolutely flips out, so I'm figuring he doesn't have a big hand, but I know he doesn't think I hit it because I've garnered a reputation for only playing "quality cards', so he probably doesn't have high pair. He goes all in for about $10 more, guy folds and I call. Turns over AK. He hits an A on the turn, and then.... a 9 comes out. Geez...

I'm obviously REALLY talented at poker since I knew I would win those hands in the end.

+60 for the night. Paid for the groceries I just bought. +118 for the year in four sessions.

Saturday, June 02, 2007

Week 1

I've been in Seattle for a week now, and the rumors about the weather have been greatly exaggerated; it's been 80 and sunny the entire week. I'm living smack in the middle of downtown and the environment's, let's say not as busy as somewhere like New York but not even close to as shitty as somewhere like Pittsburgh.

As for work, I feel like that crappy intern on Scrubs who works in the morgue: I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing, none of my computers work, and when I do try to do something I completely blow it or something just breaks again. Software dev suuuuuucks so far... but hopefully very soon I can start being productive. At least everyone on my team's pretty chill, but right now the voice in the back of my head is starting to whisper "You're blowing it, you're blowing it...", even though people have told me it might even take two weeks for new SDE's to make any real contributions.

In other news, I am a witness to the King.