The Poker Nerd

I have to admit it. I’ve been stalling on the next step in HomeGame. But, I’ve had good reason.

The next step is installing and evaluating Subversion source control. While Subversion is garnering a lot of interest in the source control world, being the most interesting source control service is sort of like being the prettiest girl at ugly camp.

After doing everything genuinely productive to avoid taking on Subversion, I broke down and bought a Logitech Harmony 880 Advanced Universal Remote Control so that I would have something to program.

Actually, I tried to install Subversion and discovered that it’s an Apache plug-in, which means either setting up my laptop running Fedora 7 as a permanent server or trying to get Apache to coexist nicely with IIS on my main development machine if I want to run it locally.

Hopefully, I’ll find a workable solution this weekend and get it set up. But, now that I have the Harmony, I can control my DVD player and I have 300 waiting.

I honestly never thought that the idiots I play with online could put me on tilt, but there’s an interesting correspondence here:

Record in online tournaments before turning off chat on PokerStars (since coming back from Vegas}: 0-21
Record in online tournaments since turning off chat on PokerStars: 5-2 (with 1 final table.)

There are a few other factors that may be contributing to the swing, but I definitely don’t miss the scintillating conversations of the PokerStars intelligentsia.

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.