It doesn’t seem to be clear what episode this is, so I’m going to call it episode “x” for now.

Some interesting hands for sure:

I’m a pretty conservative thinking person – but this guy needs the boot. The only problem is that I’m not sure what other parties are worthy of taking over. I’d never vote for the NDP or the BQ (or the Greens, LOL), so I guess that leaves the Liberals. The problem, however, is that the Liberals would work with the NDP / BQ, and that’s probably even worse. I guess in an ideal situation, the Conservatives would work with the Liberals, and the NDP and BQ would be largely ignored (as the should be).

Nice Harper video right here:

It’s amazing to me that people are THAT tilt prone at these stakes. The whale gets absolutely raped, as expected, definitely watch the last hand for a good laugh. Not that we’ve all not tilted at some point or another, though, and perhaps this episode serves as a good reminder to cool off when tilting.

Oh – and LOL Tony G.

Enjoy.

PS: Love Ivey’s remark on the end – “Now I’ve just gotta figure out a way to get it home.”

Christmas means a lot of watching poker on youtube for me – may add comments below later. Enjoy:

I really can’t get over Juanda laying down top set and being THAT afraid of a flush from Harmon. I mean – she fired off a barely over half pot sized bet. Maybe super high stakes players are “just better” but I can’t imagine laying down top set that easily can be a big part of a winning strategy. If the board was more messy – maybe – but it really wasn’t.

Bah.

These are on youtube but it’s a pain in the ass to find all the parts and whatever. Hopefully this makes your viewing more pleasurable. I may post comments later, and I’ll continue to post episodes (as I watch them, though).

I was checking my mail (Gmail) last night when I came across and interesting text ad. Now – I NEVER and I mean NEVER click on text ads, but this one caught my eye for some reason or another. It read “Cinese Furniture Beware” and linked to a simple one page site. If you check out the site yourself, you’ll see that it shows a number of photos of damaged furniture and the complaints of a customer who was apparently shafted by the company.

In an age in which online marketing can have a hand in determining the success or failure of many third world country export companies, I think this is a very positive sign. Through Google and a little cash spent on adwords, the disgruntled customer has a reasonably viable recourse against bad business practises. If he targets “Cinese Furniture” as his keyword, then anyone who is getting email from that company and using Gmail will most likely see his ad, and think twice about making a deal. Also – the savvy customer who searches for “Cinese Furniture” will most likely see the site “cinesefurniturebeware.com” on account of the keywords in the domain name.

Certainly living in a more connected world has all sorts of advantage, and promotes general liberty and equality; like the press, it ensures that unethical companies / people are more likely to be held accountable for their actions, unlike the press, however, you don’t have to be a tycoon in order for people to hear your message. I can only hope that Google stays “not evil” as they say, and continues the good fight.