StudioGlyphic

Author: glyphic

  • The cat in its natural habitat

    Elle, doing what she does best:

    Mr. Excitement, doing what he does best:

  • Back on EmpirePoker

    Anyone who’s been keeping up with this blog will know that I haven’t said boo about poker (with the exception of announcing the winner of the World Series) since I lost my bankroll back in April and May.

    In case you’ve been wondering, I haven’t played a single ring game for a month. I did play a few freeroll tourneys on PokerStars, and actually came in second in the qualifier and the weekly, netting me $50. That went straight into my Neteller account. And while that was fine and all, it took about ten hours of play for me to get that $50, which really wasn’t worth my time.

    The other day I got an email from EmpirePoker alerting me to the fact that I had $10 sitting in my account. All I had to do was play 300 raked hands to claim it. Given my experience in April, I wasn’t sure I was going to last an entire session. But free money is free money, so I played it. Now I’m up $20 after 102 minutes of play, 119 hands, at a rate of 16.81BB/100 hands. Got another 251 raked hands to go before I can cash out the whole thing.

    This is nowhere near recovery of my bankroll. I’m hoping, however, that I’ll be able to cash out another $50 and then rebuy for $100 when they send me a 50% deposit bonus. $150 should be enough to give me a fighting chance.

  • Final hand at the WSOP

    Wow.

    Raymer started as chip leader and when I “tuned in,” it was down to him and Williams. Raymer had many many times the number of chips Williams had.

    Here’s the final hand:

    Dealer: Starting new hand: #109
    Administrator: Stand by for the next hand….
    Dealer: Raymer posts the ante 10
    Dealer: Williams posts the ante 10
    Dealer: Williams posts small blind 40
    Dealer: Raymer posts big blind 80
    Dealer: Williams raises to 300
    Dealer: Raymer calls 220
    Dealer: Dealing Flop: [4d 2d 5s]
    Dealer: Raymer checks
    Dealer: Williams bets 500
    Dealer: Raymer raises to 1600
    Dealer: Williams calls 1100
    Dealer: Dealing Turn: [2h]
    Dealer: Raymer bets 2500
    Administrator: David Williams calls immediately.
    Dealer: Williams calls 2500
    Dealer: Dealing River: [2c]
    Dealer: Raymer bets 12615 and is all-in
    Dealer: Williams calls 3790 and is all-in
    Dealer: Raymer shows [8d 8s]
    Dealer: Williams shows [Ah 4s]
    Dealer: Williams mucks hand
    Dealer: Raymer collected 16400 from main pot
    Administrator: David Williams is eliminated in second place.
    Dealer: Williams finished the tournament in 2nd place

    Raymer wins $5 million. He was a PokerStars player: “Administrator: Greg won his way in through a $150 shootout right here at PokerStars!”

    Expect a lot of fish to swamp PokerStars in the coming weeks.

  • Cocktail Recipe: Pegu

    Here’s a cocktail recipe from Burma:

    Pegu

    • 2 parts gin
    • 1 part triple sec
    • 1 part lime juice
    • 2 dashes Angostura bitters

    Shake with cracked ice; strain into chilled cocktail glass.

    Some notes:

    Always use fresh lime juice.

    Cocktail recommends stirring this cocktail. Yet their write-up on stirring vs. shaking recommends shaking when dealing with “complex” ingredients, such as bitters. They also say “you almost never shake clear drinks,” but the Pegu is not a clear drink. Go ahead and shake it.

    Cocktail also recommends Cointreau, but it’s bloody expensive ($40/L). Regular triple sec is better bang for your buck ($11/L), though if you have the cash, by all means go with Cointreau.

    Cocktail also lists 3 parts gin instead of 2. I have used the recipe above with pleasant results.

    Finally, I’ve frequently misquoted Cocktail by saying that the Pegu makes one surly. In point of fact, Cocktail says the Pegu makes them saucy. In my experience, you might get either result.

  • StudioGlyphic welcomes Machine Samba to the blogging world

    Machine Samba is written by the author of Violent Messiahs and the Van Helsing movie tie-in promotional comic book. What a corporate whore!

    Here’s a sample:

    My hero, George W. Bush, told the world yesterday that the systematic torture and sexual humiliation of the Abu Ghraib prisoners in Baghdad is abhorrent (he pronounced it “aphorrent” but we’ve got bigger fish to fry). He all but actually apologized in the two truncated videos I’ve seen drifting around the net.

    I believe he is sorry. Sorry that this is a fucking PR nightmare in an election storm. Sorry that even republicans are currently calling for Rumsfeld’s resignation. Sorry that they only started the Military Intelligence investigation (one of six) a little over ten days ago even though CBS’s 60 Minutes contacted the Pentagon three weeks prior for a response. Very very sorry.

    Why I’m not buying the president’s moral outrage has a lot to do with the hard truth about abuse in Texas Prisons under his Gubernatorial watch and the fact that he never apologized to the impoverished Texas prison population. But then he doesn’t see all of them as potential suicide bombers sitting on a shit load of oil either.

    It’s obvious what direction Machine Samba will be taking in the months to come.