StudioGlyphic

"Your opponent cannot fold if you do not bet or raise." –Abdul

StudioGlyphic on the fritz

Posted on | November 30, 2004 | No Comments

Please bear with us while we upgrade our hosting service and transition to MT.

Category: Blog

You must be my lucky star

Posted on | November 29, 2004 | No Comments

Slate Explainer:

The $28K Sandwich That Grew No Mold – How the Virgin Mary’s grilled cheese stayed mold-free for 10 years.

With a winning bid of $28,000, the online casino GoldenPalace.com won the auction for one of eBay’s most coveted oddities: a 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich, one side of which bears the Virgin Mary’s image. The seller, Diana Duyser of Hollywood, Fla., claims that the sandwich never sprouted a single spore of mold, despite having been stored in a less-than-airtight plastic box. Is it possible for a decade-old sandwich to remain mold-free without divine intervention?

Heh heh heh.

Category: Fun Stuff

Possible breakthrough in stem cell therapy

Posted on | November 29, 2004 | No Comments

This could be huge.

Korea Times: Korean Scientists Succeed in Stem Cell Therapy

Yahoo News (AFP): Paralyzed woman walks again after stem cell therapy

Category: News

Impulsive, compulsive

Posted on | November 28, 2004 | No Comments

If you read this blog with any regularity (who does?), you’ll probably realize that I’m very (i/co)mpulsive. One day I rule every table I touch, the next I ask that StudioGlyphic be taken off all the poker blogrolls since I obviously don’t know what I’m doing and should stick to politics, cars, and other random crap. Oh, and it’s all fairly boring. Like reading Bob Graham’s personal journal:

“Went to lunch with Senator Dumski. Tuna salad on dry wheat with side of fruit. $9.34 + $1.16 tip. Good sandwich.”

I think I have some other readily identifiable personality traits, but I won’t go into them here.

I do know one thing: I love poker. And that’s probably reason enough to write this crap when my bankroll’s not swinging like Basie.

Category: Poker

Serves me right for playing above my limits

Posted on | November 28, 2004 | No Comments

It really was a great table. The average flop percentage was 43%, with one player seeing flops in the high fifties, four in the forties, and two in the thirties. Mostly passive before and after the flop, with the exception of one guy who liked to raise a third of the hands he played. Lots of bad cards being played by all–any ace, any king, low suited 3 and 4 gappers, etc. With an environment like that, surely there was money to be made by a guy who had read a couple books, raised his good cards, folded the junk, and limped with speculative hands in good position. Surely.

Yeah, right.

I dropped 20BB and then another 10 (money to be made, right?) until I had 10BB left in my account. Great cards failed to connect, junk hands flopped the goddamn nuts, runner-runner and gutshot draws materialized on the river, etc. Every story is the same, isn’t it?

Well, after a rocking performance like that, I decided to play a string of $10 SNG’s until the money ran out. It did.

What I had left over I threw away at a PL table. The thing that sucks about that one is that I’d been doing well until I tried to muscle out the BB with my flopped two pair. I didn’t ease off when the 3-flush and 4-flush appeared. I think some switch in my head was stuck. That hand didn’t clean me out completely, but it brought me back to where I started. The rest I squandered in a classic AQ vs. AK confrontation.

That was that. I knew what I was doing. I just didn’t care. I suppose that should worry me, being able to lose 20-25% of my bankroll without really feeling too worried about it. I think I’m actually more irritated that I spent most of my Saturday not doing my schoolwork and apps.

Anyway, with my Party bankroll out of the way, I put another $200 into Paradise and swept up 32BB in just under 2 hours/100 hands. Maybe I’m a crack smoker for extrapolating too much from my 1100 hands there, but I really do feel like I do better there than on Party (6800 hands in the last six months).

So for the time being, you’re not likely to see me at your favorite Party skin; StudioGlyphic’s going to Paradise.

Category: Poker
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