Monthly Archives: May 2005

Poker

Saturday morning conversations with Absinthe

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ScurvyDog’s guide to casino whoring is helping me offset my poker losses. Thanks Scurvy! I’m such a degenerate. Ask Absinthe, he can tell you:

Glyphic: Playing some bj

Absinthe: and winning, presumably.

Glyphic: Up 164 over my buyin + bonus

Absinthe: So, you’re going to walk away now, right? Right?

Glyphic: Haven’t cleared the bonus play through yet

Glyphic: Just increased my bet from 4 to 10 and hit blackjack

Glyphic: Decreased it back to 4 and hit a twenty. doh.

Absinthe: Varying your bet with a memoryless deck?

Glyphic: Yes

Glyphic: Can’t i have my fun?

Absinthe: So long as you realize that it’s -EV.

Glyphic: -EV? Wot’s dat?

Absinthe: (Bad Phil. Bad! Bad!)

Glyphic: Fuck the dealer. And his blackjack

Glyphic: So rigged

Absinthe: Dude. It’s GAMBLING.

Glyphic: ?

Glyphic: you make no sense sometimes

Glyphic: i got a system, man…

Absinthe: Uh huh.

Absinthe: Step 1: lose a lot of money

Absinthe: Step 2: ?

Absinthe: Step 3: Profit!

Glyphic: Damn. Just hit BJ and the dealer had BJ too.

Glyphic: So rigged

Glyphic: Woo! I love double down.

Absinthe: Blackjack is like crack to you, isn’t it?

Glyphic: That analogy would be pretty good if i weren’t a crack smoker

Absinthe: Okay, it’s like the gambling version of what you smoke regularly.

Glyphic: Okay, now I’m up $425 and I can withdraw my winnings.

Glyphic: I even made $25 playing roulette.

Maybe Iggy put it best: “ur doomed.”

Poker

Running Bad

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This happened last year, too.

Generally speaking, I’m making fewer mistakes than my opponents, but the mistakes I do make still rankle.

I’m not sure what my plan for dealing with the slide is going to be. I’ll probably still keep playing, but throw in more PokerStars MTTs to fill up the time. Those guys are nuts!

Useful Stuff

Phishing

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I received this phishing email yesterday:

It looks like an official email. I actually clicked the link, but Eudora alerted me that the URL I was clicking on was different from the one listed. That didn’t throw up any red flags because lots of companies use third party emailers, but for whatever reason, I decided not to continue on and just typed “ebay.com” into my browser. It was only then that it occurred to me that this might be a fake email. Some signs:

  1. The email address they sent the message to is not the address I use with ebay.
  2. The mailer is a program called The Bat!, which I believe is a bulk email program.
  3. My name isn’t eBay.
  4. That credit card number’s completely wrong.

Careful out there.