Texas Calculatem and Poker Office Blog

Online Poker continues to flat line. While live Poker is on tilt. At my Friday live game, a 4BB raise was considered massive. But my continuation bets were always called to allow the opponents to improve their bottom pairs into trips. SMT. I'm not sure if I'll ever get too good at the live games as opponents are either lucky calling stations or maniacs. And there isn't enough money to be taken from them to make it worth the time investment.

Last night I went to Kinky Mambo in Angel with my ex housemate Frank. It was good to see him again. We lived together in Surrey Quays five years ago when we were both on the graduate scheme of a crappy Swiss investment bank. We had top notch graduate salaries. The sort jealous journalists like to deem unjustified. However, the work itself was damn depressing and intellectually insulting. So Frank quit to go back to university and is now a trainee accountant for a city firm. He's lost four years of his life and taken a massive pay cut, but recons he can pull in a £700k salary when he becomes a partner in 10-15 years. I hope he does well.

Have been trying to convince Juice to take a punt at the world of trading, and found an inspirational article about a 25 year old local who made over £1,000,000 last year trading German bond futures (click here to read about him). While I was trying to find out more about the trader (Lawrie Inman), I found this interesting post by an envious fool who's been taken in by corporate bullshit and buzzwords. I mean, what does this mean?


"But then again, does Lawrie ever have the pleasure of putting a media plan together and pushing communications forwards? I think not. He can keep his £1million."

I also don't understand how the story can make anyone angry. The guy's a "local" and will be risking either his own cash, or his firm's cash, depending on the deal he's got. When you bet big, you either win or lose big.