Political activism on MySpace
Posted on | March 29, 2006 | No Comments
From NPR’s Day to Day:
by Sasha Khokha
Day to Day, March 29, 2006 Thousands of students walked out of classrooms across the nation on Tuesday to protest proposed changes to immigration law seen by many as a crackdown on illegal immigrants. In California’s Central Valley, protests are coordinated among remote agricultural towns by text messaging and MySpace chat rooms. Sasha Khokha of member station KQED examines the grass-roots protest organization and what the students are protesting against.
As a side note, Tom sent a bulletin about this story about 30 seconds before NPR.org became unavailable. Coincidence?
A bad fold
Posted on | March 27, 2006 | 1 Comment
A momentary lapse of clear thinking…
Preflop: Hero is UTG with 2d, Ad. CO posts a blind of $3.
Hero calls, 1 fold, MP1 calls, MP2 calls, 1 fold, CO (poster) checks, 1 fold, SB (Good Player) completes, BB checks.
Flop: (6 SB) 9d, 4d, Js (6 players)
Good Player bets, BB folds, Hero calls, MP1 calls, MP2 calls, CO calls.
Turn: (5.50 BB) 7h (5 players)
Good Player bets, Hero calls, MP1 raises, MP2 folds, CO folds, Good Player 3-bets…
…made me fold. How embarassing.
WPBT WSOP Satellite Tournament Today
Posted on | March 19, 2006 | No Comments
Sunday, March 19. 9pm EST
Paradise Poker
$30 NL
password: email Iggy at allimcbeal_69 – yahoo.com
First place is an entry into a WSOP $1500 event of your choice. The satellite starts just six hours from now, and we’re just four people away from getting the requisite 55 entries. Go sign up.
When all the draws come in…
Posted on | March 19, 2006 | 1 Comment
…you better fold.
Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with 2h, 2c.
1 fold, Hero calls, UTG+2 calls, MP1 calls, 2 folds, CO raises, 1 fold, SB calls $5 (All-In), 1 fold, Hero calls, UTG+2 calls, MP1 calls, CO calls.
Flop: (16 SB) Ac, Td, 2s (5 players, 1 all-in)
Hero checks, UTG+2 checks, MP1 checks, CO checks.
Turn: (8 BB) 3s (5 players, 1 all-in)
Hero bets, UTG+2 calls, MP1 calls, CO folds.
River: (11 BB) 4s (4 players, 1 all-in)
Hero checks, UTG+2 bets, MP1 raises, Hero folds, UTG+2 calls $7.50 (All-In), MP1 calls.
Final Pot: 16.75 BB
SB has Ah 7h (one pair, aces).
UTG+2 has 5d 8h (straight, five high).
MP1 has 4h As (two pair, aces and fours).
Outcome: UTG+2 wins 16.75 BB.
When something like this happens you wonder if there’s anything you could have done, short of magically transforming it into a big bet game–then again, I fully expected to see MP1 to show down something better than 2 pair.
Adelphia blows big hairy monkey chunks
Posted on | March 18, 2006 | 1 Comment
This is me winning a huge pot, giving me nearly a 2:1 chip advantage against a loose overplayer while heads-up in a 5-table SNG at Full Tilt.

This is also me before Adelphia completely crapped out, leaving me in second place for my troubles.
I’ve had a lot of issues with Adelphia, but I’ve been hesitant to get locked into a year long agreement with a DSL provider or pay the $100 startup cost for a month-to-month plan. But as smarter people around me have pointed out, I lost that much tonight just by not having a reliable internet connection.
