Winning at least one of tonight's three poker tourneys might have eased the pain of spending my Saturday afternoon working on annual reviews. Alas, I fell prey to more suck-outs than a pig-bottom in a snowballing porn. It is truly frustrating when you feel like you are on, playing great poker, winning pots through betting strategy rather than ( Read more... )

Without the baggage of those individuals who still can't seem to grasp blinds, chip denominations and hand precedence, we tore through three games (eight person, seven person and six person, respectively) in the time it usually takes to play two. I won the first, came in second in the second, and fourth in the final tournament, losing after ( Read more... )

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D. implied I jinxed the Parker Posey tee shirt by wearing it to two poker nights in a row, but my argument is - what's the point of a lucky shirt if you aren't going to wear it whenever you need it? It's not like I can wear something else but keep the holy relic in my car, then pull a quick costume change when things are going south. At least, I ( Read more... )

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From: [my manager]
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 2:07 PM
To: [the heads of all teams in our department]
Subject: [Team] Poker tournament

Hey all,

Back by popular demand: It's the [Team] Poker Tournament!...and this time it's personal. No really, we're all trying to knock out [wanton_bliss], last tournament's winner. It doesn't get more personal than ( Read more... )

The day after posting my career-related inner turmoil, I tried to talk my way out of the position. Over the course of a forty-five minute cell conversation with my manager, I pointed out that the best solution to our lack of solid UI experience would be to keep me where I am, explained that I had no overwhelming desire to be management but simply ( Read more... )

Certainly there are far worse outcomes than perpetually coming in second place, but that doesn't change the fact that my current run of poker mediocrity has me feeling like number two.

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