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Champloo: 587538 players, 113945 hands. Holla.

I have noticed an amazing increase in system performance since rebooting. Which is annoying since it means something is degrading it over time. Perhaps reiser4, maybe vmware or nvidia modules. Who knows. Bad thing is my last uptime on this kernel was less than 15 days.

I need to build a new system. My general rule is to go with 2x as fast as the last one. I have a 2500+ barton and 5200++ is top of the line. Of course I'm not pay that much for a fucking processor, and I'll see if there's any super value chips like the Barton that can be OC'd reliably. But I'm thinking £100-£150 on a chip, <£100 on a mobo, ~£150 on RAM or maybe twice that; 4GB would be kind of future proof, case, HD or two, & graphics card.

Looking at £800 or so and I'll make that investment when I have a £4k+ month, which will obviously not be this month. Before Christmas, though, I'm pretty sure I can do that at 2/4 without breaking a sweat, even with playing bad/running bad.

Of course, with such a hotrod I will want to play games sometimes hence the 2 hard disks, one will be Winblows. Goldeneye anyone? Might even be able to play Q4 with a decent framerate. I doubt it will improve the experience any.

10k hands should yield +$3200 but, of course, variance can knock that down to, well, $1600. It can, of course, knock it to $0 and negative numbers but so far I haven't run that bad for that long. I think I have played 6k hands and I am down $600. Which, of course, is not a good position to be in. It is not, however, awful. And I think I will turn a small profit ($1k-$2k) by the end of the month. Touch wood.

Also, I have decided that I want to be more of a dragon and less of a nit. Something Taylor said in one of his recent videos struck me: "The way I play, if I have TPTK, I'm all-in." Of course, he's also all-in with 6-high...

Wow, cut that session short. Highlight reel not in order: a) 98s (clubs), hits A25 monotone spades, short stack minraises cbet. b) Call a tightish players raise with AKo, flop QTJcc. HOLLA! Lead, call, blank turn which I lead again. Call, Ace river. I bet $70, minraised. OH YOU SCUM. KK good for a split. How can I flop the nuts and still lose? Oh, poker, right. d) AQo OTB, raise, call, call. KJx flop. BB donks small. Probably has a Jack, probably won't fold it so I nitishly fold. c) And this is my favourite. Unknown limps UTG, I say unknown since I don't have <25 hands on him but he does seem to love to open limp. I get AKo in the SB. I haven't been raising here in the past but in an effort to ramp up the aggression I am now. I am also 3betting it against overly aggressive players who play semi-predictably postflop. Anyway, UTG limp reraises. Uh, AKo is crushed by a standard LRR range. Fold. UTG shows 83o, instant buddylist.

I think I won like two pots but at best that was breaking even. After the flopped nuts pot I lost the will to go on. The LRR with 83o was the fucking straw. I flopped one set on a monotone flop and everyone folded to my cbet. Yeah, because you can't minraise me with the NFD that time. BASTARD.

Media consumed: FamilyGuy.602: Very good this week. Much better than last weeks. The HAHAH radio shows use stupid, long clips that are meant to be wacky and HI-larious but aren't and play them too much joke was severely overplayed. But then FG loves to 'overplay' jokes that aren't really that funny. Possibly it's ironic, mostly it's annoying. 'Sindy' catching hotdogs for a boobjob was sexy. "Oh, I got her in the eye that time!". AmericanDad.302: I thought Debbie might be some famous guest actress. Guess not. Still a good episode. God bless this panic room. Simpsons.1802: Much better than last week's. White Stripes scene was fantastic...even though the music was mostly guitar and not drums?! Very good.

Pornograph

It's funny how Christina Aguilera looks more like Krystal Steal in this photoshoot then Steal looks like Xtina in her Hustler one (which I can't find a link to, pretty sure I have seen it though).

Local myspace whore. Ad aspera indeed. Forbidden, another myspace whore. Eh. More myspace whores in Playboy. Oh, Hef took that down. Sucks, although it wasn't great to begin with. I guess I shouldn't call them whores, per se, most of them are only attention whores...the ones posing in playboy, however...

Anita Dark has a site now too? WTF.

Wow, BoostedJ's car team's model is super hot. He actually seems like a cool guy too. Him and Gabe (ggbman) are two very successful, very young, and very centered poker players. I think Taylor (GP) is more my age but he also comes across as a sound guy. EM2 seems like a douche but that's just his online persona, you see? It's funny because IRL he's really a decent guy! Oh, the hilarity...Anyway, I wish Boosted good luck with his $350k downswing (good god) and his marriage. I don't know if the marriage is a beat or a brag at that age but I'm sure they're in love...for now.

Oops, I pot poker in the porn section. Sorry.

This week I am mostly downloading porn. Will Jack ever cast his music video? I HAVE TO KNOW! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 , 6, & 7. Jesus, that's 20GB right there. I think I'm going to be over 100GB of data downloaded for the month at this rate. If only I could get money out of poker so easily.