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Dusk and Summer (gone)
Oct. 11th, 2006 08:28 pmBoring days, boring days. Despite exhaustion, I've forced myself to the gym for the past two days, and I actually put in two creditable perfomances on the rowing machine. Touchwood I'm over the jet lag. There is a big difference between 10 days on Pacific time and 20 days.
I think that I may try to work off my final $196 of Full Tilt deposit bonus in time to bash in the $1000 for the $500 reload bonus. For a start, the $3-$6 games there look considerably easier than the ones on Party at the moment (and the FTP ones have the $1.50/$3 blind structure rather than the $1/$3 structure, which works in my favour) and I reckon to knock off $20 bonus within 600 hands when it's a tight table and within around 450 hands at weekends.
Looking at my stats I see that I've cleared $400 in 12,000-odd hands, but this includes quite a bit at $1-$2 and the majority of the time at $2-$4, so it shouldnt take another 6,000 to clear the bonus. More like 4,000, say, which is quite doable if I have a Full Tilt blitz weekend.
I think I saw the immediate aftermath of a suspicious death on Tuesday morning. There's a paved road off Wardour Street (Meard Street, I think), and as I walked past it at 6.45am there was the CSI-like woman in white overalls taking photos, and the place was roped off, although there were only two police in sight. On the way back that night there was still a policeman guarding a house, with blue tarpaulin surrounding the scene. Probably the death of a drop-out, although it's a bit early for that to be caused by the weather. Drug overdose? Head-kicking? London is a cruel place.
Two days to "D" Day, apparently. Things should be a fraction clearer come next Monday afternoon in the online gaming fraternity. Neteller is the big one, not Party.
STOP PRESS! Pokerstars say that they will be carrying on in the US! This really does put Party in an invidious position, with FTP and Stars saying that they will carry on. If Party leaves then it probably loses a serious percentage of its customer base (including the high rake-paying Europeans who will follow the US fish), whereas if it stays it faces the problems that a publicly listed company has (mainly, jobsworth employees who have no guts) which Stars and FTP can avoid.
This indicates the true dichotomy. Stars and FTP are run by Poker people who understand (and love) Poker. Party is run by people who understand marketing. This strength has turned out to be its biggest weakness in times of difficulty. I would say that it is now marginally odds on that Party will change its mind, making itself look even sillier than it did before.
I think that I may try to work off my final $196 of Full Tilt deposit bonus in time to bash in the $1000 for the $500 reload bonus. For a start, the $3-$6 games there look considerably easier than the ones on Party at the moment (and the FTP ones have the $1.50/$3 blind structure rather than the $1/$3 structure, which works in my favour) and I reckon to knock off $20 bonus within 600 hands when it's a tight table and within around 450 hands at weekends.
Looking at my stats I see that I've cleared $400 in 12,000-odd hands, but this includes quite a bit at $1-$2 and the majority of the time at $2-$4, so it shouldnt take another 6,000 to clear the bonus. More like 4,000, say, which is quite doable if I have a Full Tilt blitz weekend.
I think I saw the immediate aftermath of a suspicious death on Tuesday morning. There's a paved road off Wardour Street (Meard Street, I think), and as I walked past it at 6.45am there was the CSI-like woman in white overalls taking photos, and the place was roped off, although there were only two police in sight. On the way back that night there was still a policeman guarding a house, with blue tarpaulin surrounding the scene. Probably the death of a drop-out, although it's a bit early for that to be caused by the weather. Drug overdose? Head-kicking? London is a cruel place.
Two days to "D" Day, apparently. Things should be a fraction clearer come next Monday afternoon in the online gaming fraternity. Neteller is the big one, not Party.
STOP PRESS! Pokerstars say that they will be carrying on in the US! This really does put Party in an invidious position, with FTP and Stars saying that they will carry on. If Party leaves then it probably loses a serious percentage of its customer base (including the high rake-paying Europeans who will follow the US fish), whereas if it stays it faces the problems that a publicly listed company has (mainly, jobsworth employees who have no guts) which Stars and FTP can avoid.
This indicates the true dichotomy. Stars and FTP are run by Poker people who understand (and love) Poker. Party is run by people who understand marketing. This strength has turned out to be its biggest weakness in times of difficulty. I would say that it is now marginally odds on that Party will change its mind, making itself look even sillier than it did before.
