What a catch, what a fold!

I'm back and aiming for the top! About a month ago a new poker room with Electronic tables (it's like playing online poker against opponents that are sitting at the same table) opened close to me and I am loving it. No more 1.5 hour drives to Niagara. Players are weak, cards are hot (about 38 hours of play so far). No more online poker for me, this is so much better.

Last Friday, I'm playing 2-5NL, with a stack of about $1200, it's deep into a 10 hour session, so I am calling some less than average hand because when they do hit there are some fishy players with lots of chips; ripe for a stacking! When they miss I can steal it anyway ;)

UTG - makes a 3x bet, he's been doing this a little too often. 2nd to act, a tight player calls, I call in late position with 58, 1 other caller behind me.

Flop 3 6 K
checks to me, I bet, player behind me folds, other 2 call.

Turn (pot is ~220) 7
checks to me, I am worried that the tight player caught his higher flush, but decide to see where I am at - bet $100. UTG folds, tight player calls.

River (pot is ~420) 9
He bets out $200
..at this point I'm not sure if he has an A to call an all in...maybe it's a blocker bet with a Q, or he low balled a K, so I raise to $500. He lays down A J... That's right he had the nut flush on the turn, and he laid it down on the river putting me on a straight flush...what a fold! I couldn't believe it; obviously still happy about hitting my 2 outer.

SQL code in a phone interview?? really!?

So I recently had a technical phone interview for a Database Developer position. I haven't had to do any database work in the last year, and I only found out about the interview the night before so I did some cramming about theory, such as normalization, benefits of RDBMS vs flat file system, etc.

Little did I know I was going to be asked for SQL code over the phone ( involving a stored procedure, a JOIN, and a SUM)...Any monkey can learn SQL in an hour or 2...and this fool thinks it's important.

End of rant

Carbon Poker Cash Games not as Juicy anymore

Ever since April 15 when Full Tilt & Pokerstars shut out USA players due to the FBI (see post from April), Carbon Poker Cash Games have gone downhill. It used to be easy to find a table with an average pot size of around 20$ for .5/1 NL, now they are all around 12-14$. I assume this is due to the cash game players migrating over from FT and PS.

Compressed course + lazy prof; not a good combo

So I had my first compressed course experience this summer. going into the 40% exam, everyone only knew 27% of their mark.

Now the prof says he will mark it by Monday (which actually means he might mark it by Sunday). We have also submitted 3 assignments that he has not marked....and may not mark at all. So this 27% of my mark really does not reflect my performance in this course, yet he might weigh it a lot heavier than it is just because he won't mark the 3 assignments that are worth 30% of our grade. Luckily I think I aced the exam.

What to do..what to do...must influence the prof that the part he didn't mark is awesome

FBI seizes US poker domains

Don't you have something better to do FBI? Like catch terrorists & murderers?

If you go to these sites:
http://www.pokerstars.com/
http://www.absolutepoker.com/
http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/

you get this nice little message courtesy of FBI:

Come on over to .ca guys, our government is not yet a cash grabbing machine.

Poker giants indicted:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20054433-38.html