A Thing a Week 2008

So I’ve been sitting here at lunch being a poker nerd and figuring out whether my push with the 6-6 was positive EV or not. (EV I believe stands for Expected Value. If, mathematically speaking your move results in a net expected value, then it is the correct move. If you believe in math, that is.)

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Here are some hands from a recent $1 Sit and Go game I played on Full Tilt. I’m going by Dr Thesaurus. (Don’t ask).

I’ll add some commentary later and probably some Harrington-esque Structured Hand Analysis on that last one to see if pushing all in under the gun with pocket 6’s was really wise.

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Right.

So the idea here is that, for the year of 2008, I’m going to try to write at least– at least– a “thing” a week for the entire calendar year. 

Chances are this might include some god-awful poetry, some essays, some poker reports and posts, some sports stories, and some complete non sequiturs.  But mostly the god-awful poetry.

Cause I’m quite good at churning that stuff out.

I’ll happily put the over/under of finishing this thing (or these things) at around March. Oooh.  Let’s say the Ides of March, no less.

To those of you who stumble across this, I wish you good luck. And please be kind.

And, incidentally, to those of you at home, may I wish you a happy new year.

PS The name. Well I suspect the more philosphically inclined among you may think it’s mildly amusing, but I doubt it. Really.

PPS My personal blogfather, and he-who-I-attempt-to-emulate, talent wise, and, to a large degree, personality-wise, is Paul Cornell. Quake in his presence here: http://paulcornell.blogspot.com/