At the time of writing this I am running 3rd of the remaining 95 players. 1400 started.
Wednesday 26 August 2009
Sick hand in the UK Freeroll
At the time of writing this I am running 3rd of the remaining 95 players. 1400 started.
Friday 21 August 2009
Thursday 20 August 2009
Schrödinger's cat ++
An explanation of Schrödinger's cat to try and explain quantum basics....
"Basically, if you have a cat in a closed box, and poisonous gas is released. The cat is either dead, 0, or alive, 1. Until I open the box to find out, it exists in both states—a superposition. That superposition is destroyed when I measure it. But suppose I have two cats in two boxes that are correlated, and you go through the same thing. If I open one box and the cat's alive, it means the other cat is too, even if I never open the box. It's a quantum phenomenon that's a stronger correlation than you can get in classical physics, and because of that you can do something like this with quantum algorithms—change one part of the system, and the rest of it will respond accordingly, without changing the rest of the operation. That's part of the reason it's faster at certain kinds of calculations."
Full article - here
"Basically, if you have a cat in a closed box, and poisonous gas is released. The cat is either dead, 0, or alive, 1. Until I open the box to find out, it exists in both states—a superposition. That superposition is destroyed when I measure it. But suppose I have two cats in two boxes that are correlated, and you go through the same thing. If I open one box and the cat's alive, it means the other cat is too, even if I never open the box. It's a quantum phenomenon that's a stronger correlation than you can get in classical physics, and because of that you can do something like this with quantum algorithms—change one part of the system, and the rest of it will respond accordingly, without changing the rest of the operation. That's part of the reason it's faster at certain kinds of calculations."
Full article - here
Wednesday 19 August 2009
Tuesday 18 August 2009
UK freeroll bad beat story #1
Played well in Friday's free roll tournament on fulltiltpoker. Came 30th out of 1400+ people which is good going but lost out to a bad beat and that sucks. I played well so I am not so worried about it but I will relay the hand below and you can decide for yourselves...
I have 24K left.
Blinds are 1000/2000 with a 250 anti. I am the button.
Dealt 7D 9D. I decide to call as I am in position.
4 players to the flop. 10K in the middle.
FLOP 3 5 6 rainbow (Can't remember the suits but they were all different)
CHECK, CHECK, 6K Raise to me.
This, to me, appears to be a stealing move given the low board and having an open ended straight draw and 2 over cards.... I call. The remaining 2 players fold.
TURN 7
CHECK to me.
Now I have 2 possible cards for a straight (4 or 8) + top pair. I sense he has checked as the steal on the flop didn't hit home.... I shove my remaining 16K at it.
Now the sickness. He calls and shows 8 J off suit. What this, in essence, means is that he has called my ALL-IN shove with a draw and 2 over cards.
Of course he spikes a Jack on the river and I go sailing out of the tourney. Of course, legs simply says 'why didn't you fold to the money?' (27 got paid)
Another day, top pair would have held. Another day again, he wouldn't have called with nothing. This day though, he did, and it didn't. Booooo.
I have 24K left.
Blinds are 1000/2000 with a 250 anti. I am the button.
Dealt 7D 9D. I decide to call as I am in position.
4 players to the flop. 10K in the middle.
FLOP 3 5 6 rainbow (Can't remember the suits but they were all different)
CHECK, CHECK, 6K Raise to me.
This, to me, appears to be a stealing move given the low board and having an open ended straight draw and 2 over cards.... I call. The remaining 2 players fold.
TURN 7
CHECK to me.
Now I have 2 possible cards for a straight (4 or 8) + top pair. I sense he has checked as the steal on the flop didn't hit home.... I shove my remaining 16K at it.
Now the sickness. He calls and shows 8 J off suit. What this, in essence, means is that he has called my ALL-IN shove with a draw and 2 over cards.
Of course he spikes a Jack on the river and I go sailing out of the tourney. Of course, legs simply says 'why didn't you fold to the money?' (27 got paid)
Another day, top pair would have held. Another day again, he wouldn't have called with nothing. This day though, he did, and it didn't. Booooo.
Wednesday 12 August 2009
Tuesday 11 August 2009
The smell....
So for the past few weeks Legs and I have noticed a stink coming from somewhere in our kitchen. Over the past week it has become pretty horrid. Well, deep in one of the cupboards, the culprit has been dug out....
This courgette had obviously been picked from our nice veg patch and left in storage for later eating. You can see on the left how it was and indeed, where it was going...
Hungry? Anyone?
This courgette had obviously been picked from our nice veg patch and left in storage for later eating. You can see on the left how it was and indeed, where it was going...
Hungry? Anyone?
Monday 10 August 2009
Good Weekend
This weekend I have done a lot of stuff. Saturday I did loads but I wont bore you. The main fun was a baby birthday party late in the afternoon.
Sunday I cycled!!! 53 miles at a fair lick and back in time for lunch. Really enjoyed getting out on the bike properly, hopefully it wont be a flash in the pan. Next ride is lined up for the 23rd. Once home, I took Alfie to see the birds down at Slimbridge while Soph got to attack the weeds in the garden. An enjoyable couple of hours for all of us!! 2 glasses of white over Top Gear was all it took to send me off. Asleep well before 10. *glee*
Here is a good video of Alfie walking taken the weekend before his first birthday.
Alfie Walking
Sunday I cycled!!! 53 miles at a fair lick and back in time for lunch. Really enjoyed getting out on the bike properly, hopefully it wont be a flash in the pan. Next ride is lined up for the 23rd. Once home, I took Alfie to see the birds down at Slimbridge while Soph got to attack the weeds in the garden. An enjoyable couple of hours for all of us!! 2 glasses of white over Top Gear was all it took to send me off. Asleep well before 10. *glee*
Here is a good video of Alfie walking taken the weekend before his first birthday.
Alfie Walking
Thursday 6 August 2009
Buy With Confidence.
Had the dude around from Trading standards last night to talk about kruelintent.com and the nature and workings of my business. The plan is that they assess me (done) and then I pay them a fee and they stick a link to me on the main buywithconfidence website. buy with confidence
Once the paperwork at that end is done I get the logos to splatter over my site and official paperwork and everybody should get more confidence that I am a legit business.
Bottom line is that I went to the site and looked for web design within 25 miles of my house and it came back with 0 results so if that can be me then that is just fine!
Once the paperwork at that end is done I get the logos to splatter over my site and official paperwork and everybody should get more confidence that I am a legit business.
Bottom line is that I went to the site and looked for web design within 25 miles of my house and it came back with 0 results so if that can be me then that is just fine!
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