Food for thought: Ten things about yourself that would surprise you.
Trivia Night: Ryan and Molly invited me to a trivia night at the German Cultural Society Saturday. I’m never very good at trivia because the questions typically focus on history and pop culture, not two of my strengths. But it was fun, and our team came in second place. Sadly my best contribution came on a question to which no one knew the answer. The question was, “In 1537, King Henry VIII declared that Saint Valentine’s Day would be celebrated on what date?” Rather than pick some arbitrary date I suggested we pick the simplest answer of February 14th, which was correct. And I’m still upset at myself for not being able to remember that the Greek god of Love was Eros. I knew the Roman equivalent was Cupid, but for some reason I couldn’t recall the Greek name.
Poker “podcasts”: FullTilt is serving up some nice audio and video feeds:
One of the best is Chris Ferguson on building a bankroll properly. He turned $1 into $20,000 using proper bankroll management for NL Holdem cash games online. In a nutshell, you never put more than 5% of your bankroll in play on a table. If you double up and are now playing with 10%, you quit and join another table with roughly 5% of your bankroll. If you move up to a higher limit and then lose, you go back to grinding at the lower limit until you build up again. Interestingly, this figure is what I arrived at on my own a while back, although I worded it differently. 2,000 times the big blind is usually 20 times the max buy-in for a NL holdem table. So if you have a bankroll of $1,000 you can play the $0.25/$0.50 tables which have a max buy-in of $50. This takes serious discipline, but I can testify that it’s sound…as long as you’re playing winning poker. If you’re playing losing poker, all this technique will do is help you lose slower. Howard Lederer echoes this sentiment in his bit on limit holdem bankroll management.
Film: I went with Rebecca last night to watch Memoirs of a Geisha. I recommend reading the book first, but the film was good as well. It’s a touching story. And speaking of books made into films, I’ve started reading The Great Escape for our book discussion group this month.
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