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Lonesome Dove
Apr. 13th, 2006 06:30 amThey are showing Lonesome Dove from 10pm tonight on BBC4. If you've never seen it, try to get it onto video. It's a cracker, with Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones on top form as Texas Rangers.
I'm at home today and will be until next Tuesday. I can therefore imitate the life of a profesional online poker player. Get up, forget to shower, work for three or four hours, masturbate, go out to buy some milk and a newspaper, lounge around for a couple of hours, do a few more hours' work, watch some TV, sleep.
Frightening thought, isn't it.
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With the concept of "Team" championships abounding, why hasn't anyone come up with the idea of duplicate poker? You can't do it online, because the cheating potential is so great, but what's stopping you having 36 laptops in a single room, with six players from each country sitting in a different position at a short-handed NL table? You then play 100 or so hands.
As in duplicate bridge, the scoring system could be adjusted so that points were not awarded completely linearly. This would make saving $500 more than half as valuable as saving $1,000 (and winning $1,000 less than twice as valuable as winning $500).
Strikes me that this would be excellent for TV, because you could see how the same hand panned out at six different tables. Remember how Caro showed exactly the same hand, which flew off in a totally different direction because of one person's actions pre-flop?
Now you can see it in action.
Back to work.
PJ
I'm at home today and will be until next Tuesday. I can therefore imitate the life of a profesional online poker player. Get up, forget to shower, work for three or four hours, masturbate, go out to buy some milk and a newspaper, lounge around for a couple of hours, do a few more hours' work, watch some TV, sleep.
Frightening thought, isn't it.
+++++++++
With the concept of "Team" championships abounding, why hasn't anyone come up with the idea of duplicate poker? You can't do it online, because the cheating potential is so great, but what's stopping you having 36 laptops in a single room, with six players from each country sitting in a different position at a short-handed NL table? You then play 100 or so hands.
As in duplicate bridge, the scoring system could be adjusted so that points were not awarded completely linearly. This would make saving $500 more than half as valuable as saving $1,000 (and winning $1,000 less than twice as valuable as winning $500).
Strikes me that this would be excellent for TV, because you could see how the same hand panned out at six different tables. Remember how Caro showed exactly the same hand, which flew off in a totally different direction because of one person's actions pre-flop?
Now you can see it in action.
Back to work.
PJ
