StudioGlyphic

Author: glyphic

  • Grubby made me a liar

    I said I was giving up the online poker, but then Poker Grub came along with this crazy reload bonus for Empire:

    Bonus update: Empire has a phenomenal reload bonus of 100 percent up to $500 using the bonus code MATCHBONUSEP. You’ll have 30 days to work off 2500 raked hands (only 5x). I suspect this is a mistake, so I don’t anticipate it working very much longer. Take it while you can! Once it’s sitting in your account, they’ll honor it.

    I couldn’t resist. I IGM-PAY’d an e-check and now I’m $500 poorer and my bankroll is $500 bigger. My God, what have I done?!

  • Omaha 8

    Had the pleasure of playing Omaha tonight with someone who knew this blog. Wow, I’m famous.

    blogreader >> Glyphic do u have a blog – Studio Glyphic??
    glyphic >> um… sure, yeah
    glyphic >> that’s what i get for using names over and over
    blogreader >> u don’t seem to certain
    glyphic >> no just surprised to be found out
    blogreader >> Have Iggy change your URL
    blogreader >> it goes to your stats page
    glyphic >> Hmm.
    glyphic >> that bastard
    glyphic >> jk
    glyphic >> thanks for the heads up
    blogreader >> did u play in the blogger tourney??
    glyphic >> nah… i didn’t check iggy’s blog for a while and then missed the deadline.
    blogreader >> too bad it was funnext time
    glyphic >> yeah… you a blogger?
    blogreader >> nah reader
    glyphic >> yeah, i don’t know what i think about people reading my blog. it’s pretty lame. 😉
    blogreader >> Well … why put it out there??
    glyphic >> originally so i could stop sending political emails to my friends. heh.
    blogreader >> lol
    glyphic >> then poker invaded my life
    glyphic >> hmm… looks like iggy removed me altogether
    blogreader >> Oh,
    glyphic >> I’ll have to send him mail. I think I still have his email from the time I asked him how much party paid him to shill
    glyphic >> He was mad, but I was actually interested in the affiliate fee structure
    blogreader >> if you cant find it let me know, blogreader@hmail.com
    blogreader >> I’ve got it somewhere
    glyphic >> Nah, I found it.
    blogreader >> cool

    At some point I found myself with 2277 double suited and played it. Won the high with quad sevens.

    glyphic >> does this count as a double hammer?
    blogreader >> lol
    blogreader >> sure

    I think there should be a double hammer challenge, though it should really be 2277 rainbow. Omaha 8’s a nutty game. I keep trying to get the weekly game to play it, but they steadfastly refuse. Wimps.

  • Too much poker.

    I just can’t do it. I have a full load of classes and work three days a week. Having money in my accounts just makes me want to play, and late night play when I’m tired has always been -EV for me. So I’m cashing out what remains of my OPM bankroll and putting online poker on hiatus until I get some time to devote to some good, winning sessions. That’ll probably be December at the earliest. I’ll still be playing at the weekly home game and on the occasional Hustler run, but other than that, there won’t be much poker content from StudioGlyphic. Watch for a content spike in mid-November as I get ready for the Vegas trip.

    Editor’s note: The original post’s time stamp was screwed up, so it’s been fixed.

  • They’re either stupid or they’re lying

    No, sorry, this is a poker-related post, not a political post.

    All the Party sites run into problems with hand histories from time to time. You request them, they don’t come. Last Sunday this happened after I’d lost a bunch of money and before I made it back, which screwed up my stats. Anyway, I wrote to MultiPoker customer service about the issue and here’s what they said:

    As per our records we see that the Hand Histories were successfully sent from our Data base. We request you to check in your bulk or junk mail folder to see if you have received them there. If you have not received them, we request you to add info@multipoker.com to your e-mail account address book and then re-validate your e-mail address.

    Bullshit. Hand histories and customer service messages both come from info@multipoker.com. How in the hell could I receive his message and not the hand histories if the problem was a bulk-mail/spam-mail folder? Besides, I don’t use webmail, so they can bite my crank. I’ve been waiting for a chance to say that. Anyway, my guess is that their server’s mail service just stopped working and they’re not being upfront about it.

  • Coming down to earth

    Only played another 634 hands of $25 PL this past week, though part of that is due to the 200 hands of $50 PL I played and the fact that I don’t get to include any Labor Day play in these totals. Since my last update, the win rate has settled down to a more than respectable 13.85BB/100 hands for my 2,468-hand history. Just wait until the beats and dead-end draws start coming down fast and furious. You’ll see me grateful for 1.39BB/100 hands when I’ve got 10,000 hands to review.

    Editor’s note: I updated some of the numbers (but not the text) after MultiPoker customer service finally sent me my hand history (as an attached Word doc!). Looks much better than before–in fact, so much so that the title of this post doesn’t really make sense. Ah well. Just goes to show that you need to have a lot of hands in your PT database to get any kind of meaningful results