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Monthly Archives: March 2005
Me and Hip Tanaka
I don’t play a lot of video games these days, and haven’t really for years and years. But two of the games I will always remember from my NES days are Metroid and Kid Icarus. Great, great games.
One of the things that made these games memorable was the great music by composer Hip Tanaka. The games these days have rock soundtracks and great sound effects, but the NES basically gave the music composers three channels to work with, and Tanaka made the most of them.
Feeling nostalgiac yet?
Download the actual NSF sound archives at Overclocked Remix. You’ll need Meridian Prime to play ’em back. The sound archives are just that: archives. So hit forward and reverse to hear the different tracks.
Additional Fun NES Links:
Upcoming WPBT events
WPBT H.O.R.S.E. Tournament
Online Event
Sunday, March 13, 2005
9PM Eastern Time
Full Tilt Poker
Password: thehammer
Organizer: Iggy
The World Poker Blogger Tour Aladdin Casino Classic
Live Event
Saturday, June 4, 2005
10AM Vegas Time
The Aladdin Casino in Las Vegas, NV
Details.
Organizer: CJ
Sadly, I will miss both events. I’ll be in Vegas the night of the H.O.R.S.E. tournament and in China the day of the Aladdin Casino Classic. Bloggers hate me, but I’ll pimp their events anyway.
Oh we’re the boys of the chorus
We hope you like our show
We know you’re rooting for us
But now we have to go
I’m with Mr. Dhal et al., I like this new blind structure Party’s brought to their NL tables. It’s pushed a lot of terrible players up to the $50 NL tables where their mistakes and our patience can make for some big payoffs. I played four tables tonight (two at a time twice) and ended up doubled on three. Nothing too interesting to report, but to complement what Halverson said about patience, I bring you two examples of being patient:
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How to know when you are better at marketing than poker
Back in the heady days of the late nineties I was working a shitty job, Bill Clinton was porking a fat girl, and one of my old friends from junior high was hosting a weekly home game that featured all the crazy wild card dealer’s choice poker games that make home games so awful and fun. Anaconda and In Between would regularly put some of us in the hole for a marker or two, and the following week the poor sucker would return with his checkbook to make good on his debts. Playing poker was an excuse to drink beer, smoke cigarettes, and talk shit. Then one day our intrepid host went and decided his life needed shaking up. Our weekly game suffered. Actually it coughed up a bloody phlegmy mess and keeled over.
Fast forward a few years and I was working a good paying shitty job, George Bush was invading countries, and I decided to get my old friends from junior high and college together for a weekly home game that would give us an excuse to drink beer, smoke cigarettes, and talk shit. We started off playing all the usual stupid games, but as time went on we felt the urge to play “real” poker and called a lot more 7 and 5 card stud, even though we had no idea how to play stud. Hindsight is… well, you know.
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