I had so much grief from people after my last video blog about how messy my apartment is! Look guys, when it starts to smell pretty bad that's when I know it needs cleaned. Seriously though, I don't care about mess. If you clean it up it just gets messy again, amirite? I just bought 20 frozen whole lobsters which I'm having for breakfast each day. I'm getting pretty good at cracking these suckers apart and ripping out their delicious meat. I was always taught not to play with my food - but with these guys i just can't help it, its such fun haha.
So my Windows 7 installation went well. Pokerstars, Table Ninja, Stars Planner, Holdem Manager all work perfectly. My only problem was with PostgreSQL which is the database server that HEM connects to. Couldn't use my existing database on the new installation and ended up just creating a new database and having HEM run for 20 hour to import all my HHs from the last 8 months or so (yes there were loooooads).
Oh yeah - had to turn off the hard drive access control thing to get HEM to work, but that was simple.
Trying to keep my installation as clean as possible. I'm running VLC Media Player, 7Zip, Open Office, Firefox, Winamp, Avira AntiVir, SumatraPDF. And just keeping all the junk software like winrar and quicktime off my system. This thread on 2p2 was based on XP but was pretty helpful Funkyworm's 3k Posts: (Videos) How to Install, Update, Tweak Windows
If anyone is in Scotland and would like a friendly MTT on St. Andrews day there will be a dealer-delt £110 deep stack with free buffet at the mint casino in glasgow. http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=45178.0
Everyone seems to be doing "challenges" these days. Where they do something along the lines of start with $100 and try to grind it up to 5 figures in a month. I know Facestealer is doing one like that right now with the mtt-sngs. It was originally going to be Spacegravy doing the challenge but he gave up after 2 hours because thats how long it took for microstake sngs to destroy his soul haha.
So a couple of people have asked me if I have any plans to do one of these "challenges". Well, I'm thinking something up right now where I would play a short-handed PLO challenge with an aggressive move up strategy. This would suit me around the time next month when I will be doing lots of traveling because with PLO i would be 4-6 tabling on my laptop tiled.
When I play SNGs I play tiled 18 tables across a 30" and 20.1" monitor, I hate cascading / stacking, so playing SNGs on a laptop really sucks for me.
I think I'm the only SNG grinder I know except for Scossett who tiles, everyone else stacks. I think not tiling gives up way too much of an edge but a lot of people are willing to sacrifice that if they can justify it by a higher hourly rate from being able to play more tables through stacking. The worst thing though is guys who havent been around very long and they are doing stuff like 30-tabling $5 sngs, instead of playing less tables so that they can develop their game and move to higher stakes where they would be making more in rakeback alone from each game than they're making in profit right now.
You guys should check out Gazillions new blog. He's on his way to Costa Rica to stay with Spacegravy, Reef2287 and Facestealer to recieve SNG coaching. He will be making regular blog updates about how things are going so check it out http://gazillion2p2.wordpress.com/
Also Reef2287's blog is really good, he's been updating it nearly every day talking about his sick life in Costa Rica. He knows the golden rules of blogging which are to make your updates both regular and interesting.
Peace.
Since 24th Sept 09
