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I swear, Minnesota coming alive poker wise. If you haven’t seen, there’s a 20 year old Minnesota guy on 2+2 doing a challenge: $60K in 60 Days. He just posted days 6 and 7. So far he’s up $6500 and right on track.

Intro and Day 1

Days 2 & 3

Days 4 & 5

Days 6 and 7

I keep seeing more and more MN people on 2+2. See, we’re not all hicks out here in flyover land.

Iggy and HDouble are on their way to Vegas. I’m very jealous. Enjoy the scotch and raise a drink for me. We hope you kill ‘em out there and represent us well.

Haven’t seen anybody post this article, but it’s an interesting one from a tournament pro. Simon ‘Aces’ Trumper talks about the grind. For those of you who saw “Poker Kings” on TV a couple of weeks ago, you’ll recognize him. The Tournament Poker Rollercoaster. The gist: Not everybody makes money and it’s easy to go broke.

Speaking of “Poker Kings”, didn’t you just love Hellmuth on that show? Unreal. They show him on camera talking to somebody saying (paraphrasing): “Yeah, this show started out talking about 4 other people but it’s ending up to be 50% about me, just like I kew it would.” LOL.

No poker for me yet this week I’m still in “school work” mode (well, and playing with WordPress, see below). Probably tomorrow or for sure this weekend
WordPress

Wow. That’s all I can say. I’m really, really liking WordPress. I installed and imported in all my MT entries in literally 10 minutes. Another hour and I re-wrote my macros (pokerhand and another that I use for abbreviations for poker blogs) in PHP and made them “real” plug-ins. And they just worked. Now I just need to get the look and feel done and I’ll probably cutover. The speed is as good or faster than MT with no damn rebuild. I hate the rebuild step, it’s ridiculous. PHP is built into my Apache server so there is very little overhead to have dynamic content. In addition to that, I am able to create cruft-free URLs easily which is something I have wanted to do for a while. Also the auto-creation of various RSS feeds is nice. MT 3.0 doesn’t seem to offer much in terms of new featuers other than TypeKey which is of dubious value anyway, so I see little value in staying with them. You cannot download 2.661 from their site anymore, so if you want to install now, you have to use the new version. It’s up to about a 95% chance that I’ll switch to that soon depending on how easy I can move my “look” over. Either that or soon I’ll have a new one look.

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