Texas Calculatem and Poker Office Blog

Am very tired today. 12 hours sleep Monday night. 5 hours sleep Tuesday night. Not very good or consistent. But trading international markets requires obscure hours and it'll be worse when I begin puntint on the Japanese energy markets.

Have just been watching a TV show that is following the lives of some kids who were born in 2006. One of the parents did not have the advantage of a good education, and wants to give her daughter a better chance in life by helping her do well at school. Such thoughts fill me with despair and remind me of my wasted school/college days. I studied what was allegedly one of the toughest Mathematics courses at Uni. However, I found the going very tough and was struggling to get acceptable grades. At a careers fair I went to chat to Codemasters. They were offering £16k to grads with a 2:1 to become coders. Or £12k to grads with 2:2's to become testers. I had a brief chat with their HR chick and asked how rigorous the 2:2 requirement was. She scowled at me, asked me if I'd only gone to chat to her in order to get the free Codemasters CD (she was actually correct about that), and said that if I only got a 2:2 I'd only get £12k. She was in no way taking the fucking piss. And I as a result was seriously questioning the wisdom in choosing a tough degree when I could have gone to the local poly down the road and get a 1st without even waiting for 3 years of lectures to pass. Why work my ass off to get a low degree and crap pay, when I can talk bullshit, get a 3rd from a mickey mouse uni, and get paid £38k??? Anyway, such traumatic experiences, and a very nice meal courtesy of UBS Warburg, convinced me that good educations aren't the way forward. Neither is hard work (if you're an idiot). You just have to so what it takes to succeed, though I suppose that does not make much sense. But amongst my peer group, the two most successful individuals both got 3rd's and are very dedicated to their chosen professions. The least successful have better degrees but either don't bother or pursue less mercenary lifestyles.

Ending the pointless rant, and moving onto Poker, I realise that I haven't posted a BR chart in a while. So here it is:

Yes. The chart is going straight down. And demonstrates why I should not be playing NL with Juice. The steady climbing bit is from when I used combinations of Texas Calculatem, Poker Office and Small Stakes Hold'Em inspired plays. The downward bit is my failure to migrate to NL with the Juicester.

The declining BR makes me feel like a bit of a muppet. Though the kind Rosie tells me that I shouldn't feel too bad. I guess it's just a bit of a strain on the ego, that everyone else with a blog appears to be reaping steady gains.

The one redeeming point of my Poker career is that some of you kind readers have taken advantage of the free Texas Calculatem offer. And I therefore have a few more dollars in my Paypal slush fund. I'm probably going spend the dollars on another random chew toy for Acorn's Nacho (if anyone can suggest a good indestructible chew toy on ebay, please leave a comment below) and the next version of phpLinkDirectory for my Blapper site.

Blapper.com is coming along slowly but surely. The Link Directory software should hopefully help me to get more backlinks and this stabalise my position in the search engines as things are a little wobbly at the moment.

I read about a dating site that's pulling in $10,000 a day and decided to install my own dating site here using the free script from AzDG. However, I'm not too sure how to market it or get new users in. A few of my friends have been experimenting with internet dating and speed dating so I might need to ask them for tips.