Re:A Geek Speaks on Texas Hold'em Poker
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Geeks and Poker?
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· Score: 2, Informative
I live in Atlantic City and work in a casino. I became interested in poker about 3 years ago and instead of jumping in head first I began to research it like the geek that I am. I studied every night for about 2 months leading up to my 21st birthday. I was studying these books like it was finals week.
I started off with some basic Hold'em books and then moved on to reading Sklansky Hold'em for Advanced Players. These books are really good if you want to get involved in playing cards. Of course, its all theory but who cares. Its the RIGHT theory.
So I went to the casino and began to play at a table full of old guys. I was extremly nervous but I played very well. After about an hour the man to the next to me said "Hey your pretty good kid. I bet you play in those big tournaments."
The moral of the story: being a geek pays off.
Heres a crazy idea. Perhaps...just perhaps this leak was somewhat of a test to see what would happen if Microsoft did go open-source. Perhaps they want to see if hackers will take the code and try and fix it or take the code and write better viruses.
hmmmmm...or maybe they just pissed off an employee.
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I live in Atlantic City and work in a casino. I became interested in poker about 3 years ago and instead of jumping in head first I began to research it like the geek that I am. I studied every night for about 2 months leading up to my 21st birthday. I was studying these books like it was finals week. I started off with some basic Hold'em books and then moved on to reading Sklansky Hold'em for Advanced Players. These books are really good if you want to get involved in playing cards. Of course, its all theory but who cares. Its the RIGHT theory. So I went to the casino and began to play at a table full of old guys. I was extremly nervous but I played very well. After about an hour the man to the next to me said "Hey your pretty good kid. I bet you play in those big tournaments." The moral of the story: being a geek pays off.
I spent years getting away from Windows and its interface has made its way to Linux. What a horrible idea!
Heres a crazy idea. Perhaps...just perhaps this leak was somewhat of a test to see what would happen if Microsoft did go open-source. Perhaps they want to see if hackers will take the code and try and fix it or take the code and write better viruses. hmmmmm...or maybe they just pissed off an employee.