What can I dew!

The classic Human vs Undead imbalance commentary by myself.

Captured for Youtube by Sigurd (thanks, good job!).

The game was played around 5 years ago and the game has been patched MANY MANY times since then. This version of the game bares no resemblance to what people play now. So no point discussing build orders and why I haven't got such and such as it is not even close to being similar to what you see now in Frozen Throne.

The imbalance was fixed in a patch not long after this game took place and around when I retired from Warcraft 3.

I believe the TillerMaN soundboards were made entirely from this commentary although I'm not sure about that.

I have had people say to me or type to me "What can I dew" more times than I've been dealt pocket Aces in poker =) Enjoy.


Part 1.


Part 2


Elky ex Starcraft gamer turned up for the Asian Poker Tour today dressed like the Joker. Funny stuff. Good make up job Elky =)

Poker

Funny slow roll I found on youtube randomly featuring Raszi (Ex Starcraft gamer). I would be annoyed by this too as it looks like Raszi is short stacked pushing all in to pick up the blinds. Just ridiculous.

I also got back from the Scottish Championships which consists of a week of events but I only turned up for the two bigger ones. The £500 and £1000 events. I crashed out early in the £500 and got 17th in the £1000. Dean "Strops" Lyall a Scottish average standard ex gamer (Age of Empires) :) won both these events which is pretty impressive or lucky, depending on how you view these things I guess. I wasn't that disappointed with my results because I got to play a decent amount of cash in incredibly juicy games. The game was only £5/£5 blinds but I managed to take home £8000+(a lot of it coming from Dean himself who tried to mess with a champion ex gamer and realized he made a big mistake) in winnings in perhaps 6-7 hours of cash game play. I enjoyed my time in Edinburgh, getting to know some of the local regulars a bit more, it is a shame some stuff doesn't happen a bit more often in Scotland. Congrats Dean.

Some guy has managed to make the "What can I Dew" commentary into a video with original replay. It is too long to upload to youtube right now so I'm seeing about getting it split into two parts. Was funny watching the replay again. It really was harshly imbalanced back then. They did fix it not long after, shame I quit soon after.

Warcraft 3 Commentary and History

I was the first gamer as far as I'm aware to do commentaries in gaming. They became very popular and then everyone started doing them with whole websites dedicated to commentaries on gaming. Now it is just common place. For poker players - I was a very well known gamer, having played all of Blizzards RTS titles to a high standard from Warcraft 2 through Starcraft and Broodwar and finally?(well maybe, Starcraft 2 soon) culminating in Warcraft 3.

Here is a "Real" commentary from me that someone put up. It is a 4v4 FFA and was done for fun. The context for non gamers is that I am playing with 7 other random Warcraft 3 players whose average skill level will be weak to average. It was done only for a change as most of my commentaries were very high level games and nearly always 1v1. As you will see if you actually watch this commentary I get bored halfway through and start killing my team mates to spice up the game, it was really quite entertaining and a lot of my random laughing is in response to the stuff they are typing to me, they start begging me to stop killing them at points :). The commentary is done live whilst playing the actual game which was much trickier than it looks. I used to get paid $600 for every two commentaries I made by a subscription site back then. I did make the most downloaded commentaries back then! Remember this is from at least 5-6 years ago and also that I have to type to the other players, commentate and actually play the game at the same time. It is a shame this is the only one someone has uploaded, I have none of the scores of commentaries I must have made. Some really great games too as I used to only commentate on stuff where something interesting or novel took place. If you have any, please upload them =)



I was youtubing for Sky(As far as I'm aware the best Warcraft 3 player these days?) the other day and came across this video where someone commentates on a game of his whilst somehow pretending I'm also commentating on the match with him. He keeps asking me questions throughout the replay. It is quite surreal to watch. Probably using that old soundboard someone put together several years ago although I'm not sure.

Part 1.

Part 2.

I just found most of my results from Warcraft 3. I only played Warcraft 3 : Reign of Chaos. I never played The Frozen Throne seriously at all and gave up soon after its release.

War3 Beta Tournament : 1st Place (Made me famous right at the start of Warcraft 3)
Intel Masters Championships : 1st Place (Really professionally run UK tournament that only lasted one year, they invested way too much money in it obviously).
VGA Tournament : 1st Place (Forget what this even was, some nationwide networked Lan Tournament I think).
Warcraft Replays Tournament : 1st Place (Shrug).
Gamefixx Tournament : 1st Place playing under a secret alias. $5000 for first though.
Campus Party 2003 : 1st Place (Some HUGE and I mean HUGE lan played in Spain - Valencia, my mum still uses the Spanish Laptop I won there).
World Cyber Games 2003 in Seoul Korea : Silver Medal in Team event (I had recently switched to Humans as yes they were imbalanced =)) I won my solo group Stage 4-0 but then faced Grubby(has been one of the most successful Warcraft 3 player of the last 5 years) in the very next round who I lost 2-1 too in amazingly close games. He then went on to face Insomnia who he lost too. Not very fair since Human was not our natural race. Insomnia of course won the whole thing! Myself and another UK player called Bond surprisingly came 2nd in the team event. I came up with some strategies on the same day that took us right through to the finals where we lost to Chinese Taipei (Taiwan).

I took up poker professionally literally after arriving back from Korea.

And finally here's a blooper I found. Me getting a little angry at my Demon Hunter dying in a spot that he should never die. Must have been random damage, spiking on each hit.



Just for the record I haven't played a single game of Warcraft III in over 4 years. I will be trying Starcraft 2 obviously.

Poker related youtube

Came across this "POKER" related youtube video today. It might make you giggle, sure did for me. Poker is one of his passions! You won't look back!

Note the Salvador Dali painting on the wall. Good taste at least!

Bob

My mum gave me the following link.



Enjoy Mr and Mrs Mitchell.

The band is the Drive by Truckers.

Another one by them below called "Where the Devil Don't Stay". Bit more punch!

I know some of you won't understand

A lot of great art goes down the drain. - Johnny Cash show.


Been into Andy Kaufman for several years, Johnny Cash show again.


Joni Mitchell and Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash show.


Same song, same show with Bob Dylan.


Eric Clapton with Derek and the Dominos. Lol? Clapton guitar solo in the middle, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash do a trio with Clapton in the last two minutes.


Slighty lame? Early Carpenters? Don't care =)

Can you tell I've been watching the Johnny Cash show - 1969 - 1971. The musicians he had on this show is almost surreal. Highly recommended!

If you want this amazing DVD Collection you can get it at amazon :-

USA - Amazon USA

UK - Amazon UK

Some music from Friday.

Had fun night on Friday as I was able to invite some friends up because my Sofas finally arrived. I have been sitting in office chairs for months. Not the most relaxing of times. =)

My good friend Bob Mitchell was over and as he was the only sober one he took charge of all musical duties. Lucky for him he picked some particularly good stuff I had never heard before.

The highlight for me was both of these Tim Buckley performances as although I have two Tim Buckley albums and enjoy him I had never heard these before. I'm much more of a fan now! He is the father of Jeff Buckley - both died tragically young.


Song to the Siren.


Dolphins from the Old Grey Whistle Test.


There was someone there on Friday who didn't see this, they know who they are =). I thought it was fantastic. You'll all think its soppy though =) Could they look more in love? Climax Blues Band!

Back

I'll post more properly when I get my photos off my laptop, this one is from my friend Sophies facebook page. It is of me and my friend Rasmus enjoying the view from the top of Himmelbjerget in Denmark. Sick hot day.

Leonard Cohen

So yesterday I went through to Edinburgh with my good friends Ann, Bob and his wife Aileen to see Leonard Cohen in concert. We went to Harvey Nichols for lunch which is now blacklisted. Poor service, average food and average surroundings. Bob even complained at the end. They got a 75p tip which should have been zero! Ann pointed out a very thin plain looking cardigan in the mens department on the way out jokingly saying I should get it. I looked at the price and nearly collapsed... £450. Lol?

We then moved onto the Balmoral hotel and into the Bollinger Bar for afternoon tea and some Pinot Grigot followed by French Martini's(they are nice!). They all had work the next day so there was no excess drinking, they are also respectable Lawyers/Clerks and would of course never do such things anyway =)

We took the long walk up to Edinburgh Castle for the concert which was stupendous. Leonard did a good collection of songs from obscure/modern to So Long Marianne and Suzanne. I even managed to have an argument with a silly woman in front of me who overheard me saying to Ann at the end of the first half that his most "famous" songs would be coming in the second half. She obviously thought she was some elitist Cohen fan and said something totally illogical like "you don't think these songs were good?" looking at me as if I was a first time listener and needed educating. My point was simple, his most popular songs would be coming in the second half and this was proven out with the performances of Suzanne, Sisters of Mercy and So Long Marianne which I told her were yet to come and were his most popular songs. I never said they were his best or greatest tracks just that they were his most popular/famous. Anyway, I got her to shut up eventually! When the songs I pointed out actually did come on(of course they were the only songs the crowd actually sang along to) she turned around and acknowledged the error of her ways with a simple but knowing nod to a true Cohen fan =)

Time for my obligatory youtube video links?


Suzanne above.

Famous Blue Raincoat below which he did not perform :(.


Leonard is the greatest and he was looking strong and fit. Many more years left in him thankfully.

Tomorrow I leave for Denmark to stay with my good friends Rasmus and Sophie in Copenhagen. I'll stay for a couple of days in Copenhagen with Rasmus where we will spend a good portion of our time at the casino playing poker trying to make some money. I hear the players are terrible but also that the rake is super high. Rasmus does well so it should be profitable! We then go on to join Sophie in Jutland for a time and then back to Copenhagen. I'll be there for 12 days. I'll be taking my laptop so I might even do some updates on the blog from there but hopefully not having to post about how I got destroyed at the casino.

I am also going to Las Vegas sometime in September with friends and am planning on seeing many shows this time and not spending so much time sitting playing poker as I did on my first trips to Vegas.

Perhaps he is nuts!

This is a forum post from 2+2 which I thought was relevant due to my previous post which I thought was funny. If you read his blog he really is desperate sounding =) Poker is evil! :-

"This is my first post, its about Russel 'Dutch' Boyd, and I created my account to share the story. I met Boyd at a WPT party in Reno this year (had a good time with him). July 2, I run into DB in a hallway at the Rio.

SC 'Hey Dutch. Remember me from Reno?'
DB 'Yes. (dont think he did) How u doing?'
SC 'Great. Where you going? Going to play?'
DB 'I am going...to go get a bag of weed'
SC ' Dude. I got a J in my pocket. Ya wanna?'

So he says were going to 'his place' (I thought his Rio room maybe?), and I then realized he meant his home. I say, 'pay for the cab ride there, I'll pay for the ride back.' So we get in a cab at the Rio, we pull up to a nice condo, and HE JUMPS OUT. I pay the cabbie, while DB he appears to be locked out. Suddenly an unidentified young man lets DB in, and I tell the cabbie he can go. The young gun has 2 bracelets, has been awaken by DB (who seemed impaired in some way), and I feel bad for this guy (he is still in his boxers-and isn't REAL HAPPY).
So we go in for 15 minutes, say HI to the next door neighbor (another young gun with a bracelet-who's VERY DEEP in the 08 ME), and the last I heard, young gun #1 is calling for a cab, as he left his car at the casino the night before. DB and I smoke cigarettes outside, and HE SAYS 'Lets go'. I ask where and he says, 'My house.' I think this f***er lives across the street, and we begin to walk in 110 degree heat midday.
After a mile of me complaing and inquiring 'how far', he says 'Wanna get a cab?' HELL YES. 'Got a phone?' He botches 2 calls to the cab co., and I'm nearly beserk, as I grab the phone from him. We wait under a shade tree, and the cab arrives 15 minutes later...
Finally, we arrive at 'his house'. I initially decline the invite in, and he mumbles something like 'ah come in, theres my car, I'll take you back'. I make him promise, and I go in despite probably knowing better. We watch TV with his buddy sleeping on the couch, while DB strums guitar. I learn DBs been MIA for nearly 2 days. The live like pigs, and I finally say, "I'm just going to call a cab Dutch...you need your rest.' I call and ask a cab to come to X31X XinXa (left it out, but I know the address).
About this time, two guys and a girl, come in. I hang another 15 minutes, and one of the guys (I'll call him Lexus GUY) says, "Dude. Want a ride back to the Rio?' He seems whacked, but I save the cab ride this way (got at least $35 in DB in cabrides already) We hustle outta there before the cabbie shows AND

during the ride, I learn what his alterior motive is...

So, about halfway to the Rio, the guy says, 'How much cocaine did you give him (DB)?' Whoa! Im thrown for a loop. I tell the whole story, and tell him all DB has put me through, to which he says, "Well don't give him ANYTHING, EVER or let anyone else give him anything in the future" 'He's bipolar you know, and he's really crazy right now. We're thinking about admitting him, but I dont think he's really on anything today.' (damage control)
I can't stand it anymore. I say, "I say BS...he's f****d up dude', AND the guys tries more 'damage control' and says 'Come on man, that isn't a drug house or anything, AND I think YOUR the one's that f****d up!'
I have had enough at this point, and I get a little bass in my voice, "Hey jerkoff, I brought him home after he's been MIA for 2 days! I told you what he's put me through...YOU should be THANKING ME!' He calms down, I calm down, and creepy Lexus dude says, 'OK. OK, I believe you.' AND it gets tense again when I say 'I dont give a F**K what you believe...I'll get out right now MFer!' (considering just punching this creep in the face).
Finally we're at the Rio, I get out, and tell Lexus dude, 'Tell DB to call me and thank me later', to which he replies, 'Dutch won't even remember you when he comes to...see ya'.

DB isn't crazy...he's a con playing crazy, much like the Genovese Godfather Vicent 'The Chin' Gigante, ever since the Pokerspot online card site failed and bilked its customers out of nearly $500000. Talk about a waste of talent...he lost his backers a few days before the ME, and is now begging on his homepage for backers!

CHECK IT OUT

http://www.dutchboyd.com/

See you in St Louis DB next time your in town. Certainly looking foward to it! BECAUSE EVERYONE PAYS THEIR OWN WAY...GTFO!

Pokerspot interview

http://www.liveactionpoker.com/artic.../boyd-int.html"

Le Goût des autres

The english translation is "It takes all Kinds" but in most places it is referred to as the "Taste of Others" which is an incorrect translation according to Nicolas in comments. Thanks Nicolas.


Anyway, I got a lot out of this movie and HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT to anyone who is reading.

Anne Alvaro is stunning in this movie and before all you fools google her image it is much more than looks I'm talking about =)

Directed by Agnès Jaoui it is a movie that could not be made outside of Europe. Enjoy if you decide to check it out.

Another movie I saw recently which I also recommend but not anywhere near as ferociously is "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" directed by Sidney Lumet of "Dog Day Afternoon" fame. Another superb performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman. It is not as perfect as the above movie mostly because of the poor ending as opposed to the aboves PERFECT ENDING but still, I thoroughly enjoyed it overall.

TJ Cookier

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=244128

This did make me laugh out loud. Mostly the photoshopped third image down.

Some further epic photoshops in this thread. Here is a couple that I laughed out loud at :-

=)

Continually edited and deleted blog posts till I drive myself crazy. Some of them were great!

Funny 2+2 Post

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showthread.php?t=242975

The part about the following post on 2+2 that made me laugh was the guy claiming Dutch Boyd is nuts is the same guy walking around with a stack of T/5 offsuit cards trying to get them signed by random celebrity poker players one of them being Dutch Boyd whose blog he actually reads and thinks is a real signature coup for his T5 deck of cards. I'd bet my roll the guy who posted this is American and clearly doesn't appreciate the irony of his own post and actions.

"(Yes, I realize the title of this thread is zero surprise)

long-ish story to follow....

Today at the wsop expo my buddy Mike and I saw Kenna James singing a country tune on the Aussie Millions karaoke setup. If that wasn't strange enough, the song ended with him and Dutch Boyd singing out the last chorus together.

After they finished, it looked to me like the perfect time to get Dutch to autograph a couple of playing cards (5-T offsuit....it's a "signature hand" of a home game I play in, and we have a ton of cards signed by a gajillion different pros...just for fun)

Me: "Dutch, you think you can sign a couple of cards for me?"
Dutch: "you want MY autograph?"
Me: "Yeah. I know who you are. I like to read your blog. Interesting stuff."
Dutch: "Right on"

(I hand him the cards)

Dutch: "What's with the five-ten?"
Me: "It's kind of a signature hand for a poker league I play with"

(I show him that I have a big stack of cards presorted into five-ten, hoping to assure him I'm not some douche who's just handing him 2 random cards out of a deck that have zero meaning)

Dutch: "Very cool. You know two red fives are my favorite hand. That's what I won my bracelet with"

(he then takes the stack of cards out of my hands and starts pulling out all the red fives - while holding them, he proceeds to sign the back of one of the cards, including with some sort of chinese looking symbol. He then puts the stack of red fives in his shirt pocket, hands me the signed card, turns his back to me and tells his girlfriend that he and Kenna want to go get high)

Me: "Hey there man, can I I have my cards back"
Dutch: "Do I own you money?"
Me: "Uhhh. No?"
Dutch: "Well autographs aren't free" (w/crazy eyes darting all around)

(turns his back to me again)

Me: "Dude, uhh, you must have me confused with someone else. How about you gimme my cards"

(turns back with a 'seriously I just may start throwing my own feces' sorta look on his face)

Dutch: "Well do you have a business card?"

Me: "What? Uhhh, Yeah, actually." (thinking this dude is fuggin nuts)

Dutch: "Well give me your business card, and I'll trade you these cards back"

(I whip out my business card and hand it to him)

Dutch: "Thanks man!" (hands me my cards along with a business card for the company that makes those electronic dealer buttons and goes back to talking to girlfriend about plans to go get high with Kenna)


To summarize: This dude is fuggin nuts. I can't even tell if he thought he was just being funny by trying to keep the cards, trying to be "tough" by keeping the cards, or just plain "I haven't taken my meds" Dutch. The whole experience made me and Mike walk away scratching our heads...."

Weird High Stakes Hand

A hand I noticed on the Highstakes database caught my eye recently. It is between Patrik Antonius and pr1nnyraid :-

It is $500/$1000 NL Holdem, Heads up. Stack sizes are $218,998 for Antoinus and $229,994 for pr1nnyraid. Previous history between them is important and also how the match was being played up until that point but obviously we are going to have to do without that information.

pr1nnyraid raises to $3000 and PA just calls. Pot size : $6000.

The flop comes JK5.

PA checks and pr1nnyraid bets $5000 which PA checkraises to $18,000. pr1nnyraid calls the raise creating a pot of $42,000.

The turn card is the 2.

PA bets $31,000 and pr1nnyraid calls creating a pot of $104,000.

The river comes the 7.

PA has $166,998 left and checks. pr1nnyraid overbets the pot with a $177,994 bet. PA check calls this over bet and shows AK. pr1nnyraid shows K9.

PA scoops the double stack sized pot with top pair, top kicker.

This hand is bizarre on so many levels. Discuss! Alternatively laugh at the following which is quite well done, poor Clonie, shes gets such a tough time on them forums =)

Bedtime soon

Browsing Hands in Pokertracker whilst reading Daniel Clowes, whilst listening to David Bowie :-

Unusual Scandi play:-

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 376884169 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Friday, June 27, 18:01:48 GMT 2008
Table Amsterdam 144 2-max (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of active players : 2
Seat 1: nieren ( $2,020 )
Seat 2: INTillerMaN ( $2,714 )
INTillerMaN posts small blind [$10]
nieren posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to INTillerMaN [ A, K ]
INTillerMaN raises to [$60]
nieren raises to [$240]
INTillerMaN raises to [$720]
nieren calls [$480]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3, 4, Q ]
nieren checks
INTillerMaN bets [$1,080]
nieren goes all-in
nieren raises to [$1,300]
INTillerMaN calls [$220]
** Showdown **
nieren shows [ 2, 3 ]
INTillerMaN shows [ A, K ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ A ]
** Dealing River ** [ J ]
** Hand Conclusion **
INTillerMaN wins $4,039 from main pot with a pair of Aces
************ Game 376884169 ends ************

"Inside every teenage girl is a fountain, Inside every young pair of pants there's a mountain." - David Bowie
Really good value bet by him on the river. He made a bad play 30mins earlier and stacked me from behind, stuck in my head:-

***** Betfair Poker Hand History for Game 376649064 *****
NL $10/$20 Texas Hold'em - Friday, June 27, 03:31:51 GMT 2008
Table Boron 18 6-max (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Total number of active players : 4
Seat 1: Lhlm ( $2,000 )
Seat 2: Foldy Moldy ( $4,691.66 )
Seat 4: Backdown8 ( $8,907.50 )
Seat 5: INTillerMaN ( $6,832.47 )
Seat 6: Lambohov ( $1,103.17 )
Foldy Moldy posts small blind [$10]
Backdown8 posts big blind [$20]
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to INTillerMaN [ Q, Q ]
INTillerMaN raises to [$70]
Lambohov folds
Foldy Moldy folds
Backdown8 raises to [$220]
INTillerMaN calls [$150]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5, 9, 6 ]
Backdown8 bets [$337.50]
INTillerMaN calls [$337.50]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3 ]
Backdown8 bets [$600]
INTillerMaN calls [$600]
** Dealing River ** [ 9 ]
Backdown8 bets [$1,743.75]
INTillerMaN calls [$1,743.75]
** Showdown **
Backdown8 shows [ K, K ] two pair, Kings and Nines
INTillerMaN mucks [ Q, Q ]
** Hand Conclusion **
Backdown8 wins $5,810.50 from main pot with two pair, Kings and Nines
************ Game 376649064 ends ************

Good interview with Barry Greenstein somewhere on Cardplayer website, some frank exchanges.

Bryce Paradis is a very insightful poker player, rare, some original thoughts and analysis mostly on Limit Poker over at Stoxtrader website.

Been Cycling recently, want to get fitter.

Le Dîner de cons(The Dinner Game) is a funny movie (I laughed out loud several times).

I watched Tenebrae with my good friend Steve Hamilton recently. We both got a kick out of it, forgot how good it was, not seen it in several years now. I correctly guessed it was made in 1982 based on architecture and music from the film. I did say late 70's in the first ten minutes but settled on 1982 by half way in. Good read! I think I'm getting addicted to late 70's architecture, I hope they don't start pulling that stuff down.

Diablo 3 has been announced by Blizzard. There is a 20 minute gameplay trailer you can stream from the site. Blizzard shit all over the competition.

Ronald Jenkees

This guy is insanely good. Going to buy his CD for sure. The retard stuff must be an act surely? Wonder what my friend thinks (Professional Jazz Pianist - Steve Hamilton). Comment Steve =)







It must be an ACT! More videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/ronaldjenkees Thanks for linkage Fred! You have your uses!

Ok it is an Act - No one uses this as a CD Cover unless it is an act :-

What the hell is wrong with you!

"do you guys know what the hell is wrong with tillerman?

this blog used to be great, it was all about videogame and poker. it was definitely the best blog ever.

now all you can see are stupid to youtube videos.

This is what we want to read:

1) top xbox 360 games you are playing, have you finished them? at what difficulty?

2) info about your poker bankrool, we want to know how much you are winning/losing a month. biggest downswing?

3) review of the new sc2 units: baneling, mothership, ...

hear ya soon"

One time deal for you since you are asking some questions that are obviously important to you and others around the world.

1. My most played XBOX 360 games:
Guitar Hero 2(Everything completed apart from last song on expert)
Dead Rising(Full complete with real ending)
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance(Full complete)
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved (Got some top 1000 Leaderboard scores before I got bored of it)
Rock Band(Skill level is currently, full complete on Drums on Medium, one song away from full complete on Hard, 24 songs complete on Expert, 2 Songs away from full complete with lead guitar on Expert)
Gears of War(Full complete)
Guitar Hero 3(Barely played, burnt out from GH2)
Test Drive Unlimited(Great game that I played a lot but decent amount of achivements left before I got bored)
Forza Motorsport 2(Got bored pretty quick but may come back to it)
Halo 3(Yawn fest, 1 hour play)
Kameo: Elements of Power (Half a complete before boredom)
Project Gotham Racing 4 (played it just enough to do slightly better than my friend so I could see him get angry after races, he quit me)
Need for Speed Most Wanted (Got stuck in this game, how you get stuck in a driving game I don't know)
Viva Pinata (Maybe 40% complete before boredom)
Saints Row (Maybe 25% before boredom)
Fight Night Round 3 (Got too hard too quick, too repetitive)
Perfect Dark Zero (Bored fast)
Mass Effect (Mass Zzzzz fest)

some other games I forget.

2. On a $100,000 upswing since I switched to heads up only. Was on a decent downswing before this though. Slow year so far. Mostly get action at $500/$1000 only, tough to get games going at $2000/$5000 unless I join other peoples games but even then they will mostly sit out and the ones who don't aren't worth playing anyway for the most part. Game selection makes you twiddle your thumbs a lot but it is pretty important. Not playing enough either. Biggest downswing is $100,000 - $175,000 which I've had two or three times in poker.

3. I think Starcraft 2 looks as if it is going to be great, fingers crossed it is significantly better than Warcraft 3 but even if it is only as good(doubtful) then it will still be a great game! If it equals or surpasses Starcraft/Broodwar I will be shocked. I can't judge the new units till I actually try them, a bit worried about units like the Mothership, they feel "Heroish", there were no hugely overpowered units in Starcraft. Guess I'll withhold judgment till Beta.

Next post is likely to be back to "stupid" you tube videos I'm afraid. If anything remotely interesting happens to me in poker or gaming I'll be sure to post here don't worry. Unfortunately it is going to be me judging the "interesting" criteria.

Thoughts?

Hopefully not as meaningless as the Spice Girls fifth song on their third album. Did they have a third album?

I have the greatest poker blog on the internet because it has fuck all to do with poker! Bookmark today!

Some music :-


Roygbiv by Boards of Canada, great video by random you tube guy that fits music nearly perfectly but not as good a version as Numerator Original from Closes Vol 1.

Life in Technicolor (Coldplay, Viva La Vida Or Death and All His Friends, only because Brian is producing and there is definitely something about Coldplay you want to embrace yet reject at the same time, its a dilemma I guess)
Disengage B (Fast forward for 30 seconds, Boards of Canada)
Lauras Theme (Angelo Badalmenti, which was amazingly playing randomly in a restaurant yesterday)
Lalene (Keith Jarrett, total classic)


Joni Mitchell - Tax Free. Lyrics please.


Classy and crazy as the funk monster baby. Herbie is the fucking man. "I'm Old Greggggggggggg"


Crazy good. Chick Corea Acoustik Band - Humpty Dumpty, Not for everyone.

Edinburgh

Was in Edinburgh staying for a few days last week staying with my good friend Steve Hamilton. Better play some poker today, major slacking all week. Well, I did play some poker whilst visiting Rory Matthews(Mafews) and Ben Bard in Edinburgh. Was really big game, £50 dealers choice, 90% 4 Card Omaha. I was of course crushing the game, stacking Mafews early and peeling turns and rivers to catch his obvious bluffs =). Joking. Not joking about him being a lucky bastard on last hand where the pot is of course inflated with a 4 way all in on flop. Didn't lose overall though. But he ended up winner, grrr. Nice pad, nice guys, fun time.

It was also Dario Argento week at Steves, one of the greatest horror movie directors ever, or just directors in my opinion. We only watched Phenomena(aka Creepers) and Deep Red(aka Profondo Rosso) but we both got a lot out of them. Next time I'll show him Tenebrae(aka Unsane) and Suspiria.

Oh yes, Indiana Jones 4 is a huge disappointment. Avoid at all costs. If you must see it then definitely go alone because anyone you are with will 100% lose all respect for your judgement. Lol. So shockingly awful.


Oh yeh, meant to post this before, I came across this randomly on youtube. I'm a big Chistopher Walken fan and this impression of him is one of the funniest things I've seen in a while. "reduce! reduce that fat motherf*****r for as long as it takes! reduce! reduce!"


Oh yeh, saw this for the first time recently, very sick but hilarious if you have not seen it before. He has been around for a while.

Time to poker...