The Poker Nerd

I used to be a web developer.

Even as I write that, I don’t believe it. For about four years during the late nineties and early naughties, I worked exclusively developing COM components for use behind ASP pages. But, when I made the jump to the dotnet universe, I also jumped back to building desktop applications. I learned the rudiments of ASP.NET back in 2001, but never used it professionally. Six years later, what I learned is both faded and obsolete.

I’ve never really accepted that I’m not a web developer anymore. This site is a perfect example of that. Currently, it’s just a blog, but I’ve always had an eye towards making it a fully-functional website with a front page, articles and everything.

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I just spent the last couple of weeks burnt out on poker.

I assume this happens to everyone. In my case, it was predicated by 70+ hours of live poker over a 2.5 week span in Vegas followed by a string of brutal losses in WCOOP qualifiers. I haven’t even logged in to PokerStars or FullTilt in the last week and a half.

I’m coming out of it, though. Labor Day weekend is going to be three solid days of poker in Atlantic City with the COBB-Webb Group, possibly including my first trip to the Borgata. And, I still want to play in as much of the WCOOP (and FTOPS V) as possible.

In the interim, I’ve been working on getting the main (non-blog) portion of the site up and running by building a CSS-based template for the content. You can see the evolving results at the alternative home page.

Wifezuki and I returned from Las Vegas early Sunday morning and have spent the day recovering from the travel, the vacation, and jet lag. Now that I’m settled in and rested, I’m looking forward to getting on with poker, programming, and building up this site to more than just a blog.

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