Chris Halverson’s Blog

Well, nothing too much to write home about. Friday night found me at Party where I couldn’t catch a card for about an hour, then went on a little tilt to piss away 5 or 6 BB. Hmm…Let’s try another site and see if it’s better. Nope. Same deal. Can you say, “Chase”? Geez…

Saturday comes along and after doing some housework, homework and other various exciting tasks, I sit down to read some 2+2. I see there’s a new casino to whore so I jump on that. BJ was allowed, but no autoplay, so I have to play through $2500 worth of bets. I setup a table and do 2 $2 bets at a time. About an hour into it I once again am reminded of the variance in blackjack. I deposited $100 and got a $100 match. I was up to $250 at one point, but in the end I cashed out $160 for a pure profit of $60. Not bad. Software was pretty decent too and it was easy to figure out if you cleared the bonus because they actually told you. You didn’t have to do any calculations to figure out if you needed more, you just went to the page and it said, “You’ve cleared the bonus”. Nice. The software was kinda “funny”. The buttons seemed really close to each other and I accidently hit the wrong one a couple of times. The “best” one was when I hit “Double” instead of “Stand” when I had a 17 and I got a 2 and won. Gotta like that I’ve also already got the cashout. This rocks, they’re definitely on my list of “good casinos” to keep going back to if they offer another bonus.

Sunday night found me watching the final table of Fox Sport’s “Championship Poker at the Plaza”. Good stuff. I thought they were going to finish it this week, but there must be at least one more week. If you haven’t seen this, you should try to catch it. FSN replays it about every day so it’s hard to miss. My poker? Yikes. I was down 10BB, then hit a minor rally to finish up 3BB. Decided to try another site and couldn’t find a game at my level that looked good, so packed it in for the night.

School this quarter is going to be super easy. I’m way past the requirements for the course, but there was one area where I didn’t have a lot of experience so I decided not to try to pass out of it. The upside is that it will be super easy, the downside is that it just takes some time.

If anybody knows of any decent Java programming jobs in the Twin Cities, can you let me know? I’m on the lookout now. This is a pre-emptive search, my job now kinda sucks and I got a new boss who is intent on changing my whole career to a new focus. I’m all for learning new things, but I don’t want to totally change now when my expertise is still in demand other places (ie. it’s not like what I know is obsolete, it’s just not our company’s focus). Email me, IM, comment, whatever. Thanks in advance.

Overall, not my best weekend of poker. The casino whoring made up for Friday night though. Hopefully things will be better this week.

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