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Ok, I'm back at work.It's Tuesday morning. It feels like I've been gone from my normal life for about 3 years. Here is what happened: We planned on getting on the road from San Diego to Vegas at around 3pm or 4 at the latest. This was last Thursday. There is not a person on this planet that can be more late to EVERY SINGLE event than my beloved wife. So we got on the road at 7pm. It was me, Susi

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Variance is kicking my ass. In the past 3 days I have lost most of my gains on EOH. Chip count is around 660. And even Full Tilt has been a harsh mistress. It happens from time to time. It seems every decent hand gets beat. KK finds AA, AK finds no help, continuation bets are called every time, straights and flushes refuse to come. I can actually feel the tendency to back off, to get passive

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“Tyrannis will see some new industrial and planetary interaction opportunities like we’ve never seen before in New Eden. It’s a step in linking EVE Online and DUST514 as well. So I need you to write what you believe are the short and/or long term consequences of this development, in terms of the new industrial capacity in presents to players, in terms of the opportunities for pirates, for

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EOH Poker update: chip count up to 1051. Just over double my initial buy in. I am mostly playing tight but moderately aggressive poker on this site. By choosing better hands (that means folding a LOT more than the other players) I start out ahead. When I connect on the flop it will usually be with a better pair. The trick is that, so many of the hands end up multi-way (lots of people seeing the

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It may be fair to say that EVERY game is different. But, being humans, we like to classify and label things that we deem alike.So we call some games loose aggressive, we call others nitty or tight; some tables we classify as talkative and fun, others as serious and tough. The generalized difference between low limit poker tables at Full Tilt and those on EOH is pretty broad. Full Tilt has much

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Short post this morning:C-MAC, the merc corp I fly with, has deployed on a contract about 20 jumps from our normal area of operations. So, for the next week I am living out of a rented hanger in a foreign station. It never gets old!I've been playing both Full Tilt for real money and EOH for Isk. The games are VERY different. I play ring almost exclusively and the difference on each site is

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Over the weekend Selene De’Celeste, the originator and owner of Eve Online Hold’em (EOH) ran a free roll tournament with a prize pool of 1 billion isk to the top three spots.For those unaware, a free roll poker tournament requires no registration fee or buy in, it’s free! Selene asked a small favor from the Eve poker community in exchange for putting up the billion isk prize. 20 people needed to

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Cooperation may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about poker or pvp. I think its fair to say the word conflict might be a more prominent describer of those activities. But the saavy warrior on the felt or in a pod will use every edge she can get to win every challenge.C-MAC, my new corporation, conducted a pos take down in hi-sec last night as part of an ongoing merc

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The long lost blogger returns! Once again I am jacked into the pod and leaping between stars. For many months I was exploring the very visceral and exciting world of Darkfall. Great game. Reminds me of EVE a lot.But, as Letrange reminds us about EVE and the Eagles, “You can checkout any time you like; but you can never leave.”Speaking of Letrange and AMC, I have retired from Worm Hole industries

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Dominion is out. Looks good.Mining Director I is done, the Industrial Command Ship skill is the last step to Orca pre-reqs. But it is expensive. Then there is that little hurdle of actually purchasing the Orca.I'm researching a great deal about the manufacture and industrial aspects of EVE. I'm reading alot in Market Discussions and blogs about the supply chain from Moons -> Components -> End

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In terms of skills, I just finished Mining V (T2 miners for the hulk) and am staring down 12+ days of Mining Forman V which is almost the final barrier to an Orca (minus the several hundred million Isk). In terms of knowledge, I've been practicing small time trading with an alt. Diametrix has a fair number of trade skills but she's busy in WH space. So, I've hired an alt to assist with hi sec

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Been a long time since I blogged here. Too long. I went to fan fest 09 and played in the Hold'm Tourney. I finished 3 out of 60 or so. It was a crazy fast format. Blinds went up at least once or twice an orbit. Iceland was terrific. We'll be back next year. I've taken up with a Wormhole corporation. Its good to be with a team and the W-space environment is great for learning new stuff and trying

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I was very lucky to be seated at a 2/4isk NL table on EOH Hold’Em between two of my favorite players: Mynxee (on my left) and Quofous “Q” (on my right). If I’d had my druthers I would have put Mynxee on my right as she plays a bit tighter and more straight forward than Q.The table was fully 9 handed with chips stacked between 100 and 700+. I sat down with the max buy in, 300.I’ve been working on

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Raph Koster is a well known game developer and MMO enthusiast. He commented recently on the whole DBoB affair. http://www.raphkoster.com/2009/02/11/the-eve-upset/comment-page-1/#comment-144739.I posted a comment as well that I want to repost here. This just repeats how strongly I feel about the great value of EVE in this gaming market.""I’m a EVE player. I’ve also played most of the other MMOs on

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EVE Online has bridged a significant gap amongst MMOs. I don’t mean eclipsing the peak concurrent user record for simultaneous players on a single server: >51,000!What I’m referring to is CCP’s success at moving massively multiplayer games into an increasing variety of media outlets that actively involve players. This creates a self reciprocating synergy that grows immersion and popularity of the

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I discussed my views about FW in my previous post. Specifically, that Faction Warfare is meant to be a stepping stone between Carebear/Hi Sec/PVE and Lo-Null Sec/PVP/’EndGame’ content.I also mentioned my idea that plexing, as an FW system, serves a very powerful role that most capsuleers don’t fully appreciate. Plexing provides a conflict space where you can have fleet fights (or solo engagements

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Poker: Eve Online Hold’em ring games remain down after someone hacked many accounts and absconded with much isk. Selene has given reassurance that the ring games will return with new and refortified security measures. I have not played many of the sit&go style tables on EOH because they require some very specific tactics that I’m not developing right now.I picked up a copy of one of Dan

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Well, I just busted out VERY close to the bubble in the EVE ONLINE HOLD'EM Anniversary Tournament. The thing about poker tournaments is, no matter how big the field starts there is only ONE person who is happy about her finishing spot. Everyone else thinks and wonders about the mistakes they made along the way and the last one that walked them to the door. This was a terrific tournament with 100

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Late on entries again. Ce’ La Vi!I played some live poker over the weekend. I’m not far at all from the Viejas Casino in San Diego and I go there and Sycuan for my live poker fix from time to time.This weekend Viejas was hosting its annual Viejas Poker Classic, a two day $1050 buy in NL tourney. There were 487 entrants ( I was not one of them) which makes the prize pool $487,000. First place was

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I’ve tried to play more ring games in the EVE Online Hold’Em room but to be honest, there isn’t much action. I don’t really have the bankroll to play the 1000 limit tables and the 200 tables don’t fill up much.One side effect of this is that I’ve been exercising my short handed game more and that is a good workout.Last night I played several tournaments on PSO. I played a Limit Hold’em with 22

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A less poker related entry:I recently left my corporation, CAIN, to pursue other interests. In so doing, I also left the Caldari Militia and faction warfare.I’ve been working on my exploration skills and some industrial and transport oriented sets. So for about 2 to 3 weeks I wandered about BlackRise and Lonetrek and various regions and systems looking for what was pulling me in that

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Sometimes you have to get up away from the poker table and take a break.Sometimes you have the insight to realize it is not just bad beats, not just unlucky draws, not just donkeys or noobs playing badly.All these things may well be happening but after awhile they can take a definite effect on your play. You start making adjustments and changes to your game based on these outside influences.We

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The Rules:Link to the original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog. Share 7 facts about myself in the post - some random, some weird. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs and/or Twitter.Tagged. I think this is blogger PVP. And it happened like a week ago…so I got

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Sometimes, it’s tough to figure out where you are going. I struggle with this feeling a lot because, although I am terrific at starting a new task or tackling a challenge, I tend to lack the momentum needed to see each endeavor through to the end. I lose interest in my undertakings often and manage to get things done half way.I have found that, for myself, it is necessary to frequently re-assess

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There are stages to a poker players’ education. But they’re not stages like floors you can get to on an elevator, not nearly that well defined. They are more like evolutionary phases that you can place someone in roughly.When you begin playing poker, you learn the rules and start to learn the pace of play. Understanding where the action is and what your options are when it is your turn to

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I apologize to the three of you that read this blog for my extended lack of input.I have had quite a productive week even though my post count cannot attest to it.I got a new computer from NewEgg.Com. It has 4 times the RAM and an NVIDIA graphics card that allows me to see EVE for the first time in premium graphics. Now that right there would be enough to distract me for a few days…but!A Tale in

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We’ve all seen the picture of EVE’s learning curve. It is so funny because it’s so true. The learning curve in the game of poker may not be as steep (not at first in any case) but it goes on much farther. I was trying to figure out why this is. According to the rules, poker is a very simple game. Yet the mastery of it can take decades if it is ever achievable at all. As far as massively

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I want to thank CrazyKinux for adding me to the EVE Blogroll. I’m thrilled to have the kind of exposure that such a place provides. PocketPairs&PodPilots got started because of my explorations through CK’s site and all of the links to amazing content.Networking is not something that came about with MySpace or Facebook. It has been around since before the internet, before board room meetings,

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What is the stereotypical poker player?Wild Bill Hickock ? Doyle Brunson ? Mynxee ? Ricdic ?Truth is, there are a lot of characteristics that go into what common culture deems the stereotype of a poker player. And those characteristics change over time.Everyone plays poker. Most of us do it with cards and chips; flushes, straights and overpairs…some of us do it with long range scanners, gate

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Mike Sexton and a few others like to call No Limit Hold’Em the Cadillac of Poker. And, although some very serious high stakes limit players (Doyle, Barry Greenstein, Phil Ivey, Jen Harman) can attest to the depth and complex strategy of limit play, No Limit demands a whole new set of tools and tactics when it comes to betting. As an aside, I would suggest that the ‘Cadillac of Poker’ moniker has

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“Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.” Sun TzuWhether it is over a grungy table in LasVegas station with newly cloned fingers shuffling chips or via a small wedge of bandwidth dedicated to communication with 5 other capsuleers across the virtual felt while camping a gate in Rancer, poker is alive and well in New Eden.As discussed in my previous

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Pocket Pairs & Pod Pilots is my first attempt at blogging. It incorporates two of my most avid interests: EVE and Poker. Recently I have discovered that these two tastes taste great together! There is a healthy and growing community of Pod Pilots that play Poker against each other on a frequent basis. If you're familiar with this lot then you probably know more about the ins & outs of EVE Poker

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