Digital Thinkbox

Sadly,
My good friend of may years, Wally Bigelow passed away on April 30th after a long battle with cancer.

Wally, you will be missed.

Update: Memorial service is scheduled for 1pm Saturday May 17th in Fernwood, ID.

OK so it has been a LONG time since I blogged. I’m currently getting a new theme installed and upgrading WordPress. An actual blog post to follow soon.

Update 05/02/2008: OK so update is complete…finally. New theme as you can see. I used a canned one someone created, but I kind of like it.

My Villain profile:
You are Apocalypse

Apocalypse 53% Mystique 52% Dr. Doom 51% Magneto 50% Lex Luthor 48% Juggernaut 40% Venom 39% Kingpin 38% Mr. Freeze 37% Catwoman 36% Dark Phoenix 33% Green Goblin 32% Poison Ivy 32% Riddler 26% The Joker 23% Two-Face 12%

You believe in survival of the fittest and you believe that you are the fittest.

Click here to take the Supervillain Personality Quiz

Hero Profile:
You are Spider-Man

Spider-Man 70% Superman 65% Green Lantern 55% Iron Man 50% Hulk 50% Supergirl 50% Robin 45% Catwoman 45% The Flash 45% Batman 40% Wonder Woman 35%

You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.

Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test

I can live with those.

I completed upgrading Wordpress and my themes today. Fixes several bugs in both Wordpress and the theme I was using. Unfortunately the upgrade process hosed the data in my goals module that was on the right bar. Good thing it is the end of the month so I can just make a new one for January.

December wrap-up
I didn’t make my goal of 2000 total hands played in December, but I came close with 1,874. This is total hands played since I started learning No-Limit cash, and while it isn’t a lot my game has improved quite a bit. I was able to maintain a positive win rate and make a modest amount of money. The money isn’t really the point right now, learning how to play well is. I play one table for 50-100 hands per day, concentrating on play and reading hands. Clearly this isn’t the road to riches only playing 50 hands per day at $10NL, but I felt multi-tabling wouldn’t allow me to learn the game as effectively.

I may start adding tables slowly as I gain more confidence and comfort at the limit I play. I will have to be careful here to make sure the extra table(s) don’t negatively impact my play.

I also started playing multi-table tournaments (MTTs). I’m still really terrible at MTTs as I haven’t played too many of them. I’d like to improve my MTT game along with my NL cash game since I feel the are complementary to some extent.

I won’t bother posting graphs this month, since I don’t really have enough hands to provide any sort of statical significance. ~2,000 is nothing, once I have about 50,000 hands I might be able to draw some conclusions on my play from my stats.

Going to try and update my blog with a semi-daily update of my session results. Will see how this helps, if at all.