Whilst I was waiting for a virus scan to finish, I thought I'd fire up Party Poker for a quick game. I saw a $6 buy-in single table and figured that would do nicely ($2000 starting value in chips). The first dozen or so hands are all played pretty tight and I'm a few dollars up when I get dealt pocket nines. I raise three times big blind to 120 pre flop and get a couple of callers. I then flop a house of nines full of aces so I'm thinking this is in the bag. I bet 200 and get one caller which I though was odd. Next card is a Jack of spades and...
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Monday, March 13, 2006
Posted by Captain Flymo on 3:37 pm with No comments
You must have seen 'em somewhere - the bloke (or woman) who stands by the sinks in the kind of bars and clubs that think they're a bit special when the truth is that they're just overpriced and have a higher-than-average tosser quotient. Now, I'm sure that some people get off on the thrill of having a flunkey to pump soap on their pudgy hands and then pass them some sort of paper product to dry themselves on, but frankly, I find it irritating.Now don't misunderstand me: I'm no raging leftist who has a problem with the idea of servants or whatever,...
Posted by Captain Flymo on 3:36 pm with No comments
We all know of the comedy morning after effect curries can have but last night I had one which whilst rather spicy also had hard boiled eggs in it. Really tasty but christ does it reek tod...
Posted by Captain Flymo on 3:32 pm with No comments
I'm a bit of a poker player. OK, I'm a lot of a poker player. I play Texas hold 'em mostly but also 7 card stud and 7 card Hi-Lo. We have a hold 'em school at work and we play more or less every lunchtime (a good break from the desk). Now I consider my self to be a reasonable player and I have won money in tournaments, but I have days where, because this lunchtime game is for fun and a league where only honour is at stake, I have occasional runs where I play very loose indeed.Recently, I have been playing tight and aggressive (only playing good...
Posted by Captain Flymo on 3:08 pm with No comments
Yes, I know - it's sad. But look at it from my point of view. I'm not naturally a very gregarious person with people I don't know, a bit shy and these days I can't stand bars and clubs because the music is too loud and I don't like it. All of which makes me sound like my Dad, but as I get older I appreciate the opportunity to have a pint in peace, not surrounded by teenagers on drugs who want to start fights. And anyway, whenever you're in such a place, you are generally rat arsed and half deaf which is not necessarily the best combination of factors...
Posted by Captain Flymo on 3:06 pm with No comments
There was a time when the BBC was a byword for excellence in reporting news. Diction would be precise, reportage would be factual, to the point, always in the third person and impartial. Written work would be grammatically correct. However, it seems that things have changed. And the culprit? The interwebnet.Read this article on the Buncefield fuel depot fire which occurred in Hertfordshire (UK) last December. Notice something odd about it? That's right, the author feels the need to tell us that Hertfordshire Oil Storage Limited (the company that...
Posted by Captain Flymo on 3:05 pm with No comments
In the last 24 hours or so, not one but two things have attracted a sufficient amount of my ire to leave me with bulging veins in the cranial region and frothing at the mouth like the rabid pet of a cheese-eating surrender monkey.Recently, it came to my attention while building a commercial website for someone that I was no longer getting a good deal on my web hosting. 15 quid a month (plus VAT) for 50MB of space and a pitiful amount of bandwidth seems like rather a lot for script hosting when another company can offer me 3GB of space and 40GB/month...
Posted by Captain Flymo on 2:56 pm with No comments
Hi there. Just what the web needs: another self-obsessed individual who is convinced the world really wants to know what goes in their head. I always resisted blogs for this very reason until I realised that I am a bit on the self-obsessed side so I then figured what the hell, I might as well do it.I don't post all that often and when I do it tends to be a rant about more or less anything that I've been thinking about. The first tranche of posts are ones I have moved from a mySpace page mainly because I am fed up with the ropey nature of mySpace,...
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