Poker
In order to keep up the appearances of this actually being a “poker blog”, I can say that I actually played poker last night.
Or at least I played some game that involved cards, donkeys, and maybe resembled poker. Unfortunately, I think one of the donkeys was me.
I played .50/1 NL for about 45 minutes. It was terribly tight and I was down about $20 mostly due to blinds and a couple limps. Due to the tightness of the table, I excercised a new concept to me called “game selection” and decided that the 1/2 NL couldn’t be any worse and I’d be able to make up my $20 quicker.
Uh…yeah.
Once again, this table was fairly tight. I was hanging about even after 30 minutes, basically stealing some smallish pots to do so. I then proceeded to totally misplay a flopped set against a straight and flush possibility and dropped about $100 in one hand. Basically, I didn’t price the drawers out on the turn and the river was a 3rd suit and also put 4 to a straight on the board. I sure didn’t think my set was any good anymore, especially when my feeler bet was raised $100. All I can say is that I played it terribly and one hand cost me big.
I dutifully logged off and thought about firing up Full Tilt, but decided I’d wait to lose the rest of that bankroll for another night.
School
I thought this quarter was going to be a lot more difficult than it’s turning out to be. I thought I’d be able to learn some J2EE stuff that I haven’t really dealt with, but it turns out that we don’t necessarily have to do so. The school provides us with a JBoss instance on a server, but we can also use our own computer using a local JBoss/MySQL install to do it and provide screen shots of the application that we’re writing. Sweet. We also don’t necessarily have to make total use of EJBs, which will make the app about 100x easier.
There’s still a big ass paper to write as well as code for an application, but I am going to leverage this application into my last class project (next quarter) and a real work project that I can’t seem to get approval to work on. All in all it should be a good deal and hopefully will give me more poker time 
JBoss? Hah, sounds like your professor knows very little about how big a pile of crap that server is. If anything, he should be using Orion as it is far far superior and just as free for non commercial use. Granted, it isn’t Open Sores but that is probably why its about 100 times better :).
Also, very few people actually use EJBs these days so learning them is mostly a wasted effort (particularly the EJB 2.x spec). Most people have gone the way of ORM (using Hibernate or Toplink) and Spring managed transactions. A few dabble in MDB’s but those aren’t all that common really.
So, if you only need to provide screenshots, I’d give Orion a go (www.orionserver.com). Take this from fellow Java nerd and Oban drinker, your sanity will thank you :).
Ok, this ranting comment is over!
Good luck with school Chris, let me know when your ready for a post-grad all-night poker party