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i'm working in a sector (climate change response etc) that i'm interested in and feel like i have some skin in the outcome
about 20% of my role is figuring out how to create difficult datasets in...

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
earthquakes
i live on a shaky island and all that
alive and well, the central business district was closed today so no work for me, more of the same tomorrow..

about since i could walk. been plenty of good places. Some of my more interesting trips have been soloing little mountains in the Cordon del Plata in the Argentinian Andes, big transalpine trips ith...

farewell davenigma - it's been a blast! millions of hands since 2006, you've done me well. Closing off of yet another part of my 'daven' poker persona, it's been in hibernation a year now - back to...

i've spent the last four months without using internet at home, and only rarely outside of work related stuff at work. And living sans smartphone. It's been a good experiment/journey.

changing...

a couple of months ago i returned to the suited data analysis and strategic policy fold.
it had been six years since i'd left that game to switch to poker as my only income. And now it's been two...

2014 was a pretty tough year on the poker front - struggled to make enough to live like I want to live without dipping into life-roll, i worked a two month data contract somewhere in the middle and...

about $50 and 5nl initially.

new year, new agenda, starting over from the bottom

two days, two hot runs.
Yesterday 15km of hills in a sweltering summer day with a woman i love to run with.
Today 5k hands of the 6max nlhe for + 10 stacks.

I'll take both.

Lawn a sea of clover
clover rich with bees
no longer safe to wander
barefoot through the grass.

Everything is hunny.

happy 2015 y'all

i wanna be a poker star. or to at least have some game selection. back to the big site for me.

it's three letter acronym time
gto
abc
etc

seems that i'm beating the rake.
doesn't mean the rakeback ain't beating the table winnings though...

and definitely noticing a difference between my a-game and my c-game

surely they should be able to catch them without my help.
anyway, don't cheat in my games etc
once i was certain they were cheating i started freerolling hands with them, nothing to lose so i put...

i went back and checked. In each of the three occasions it was small pocket pairs with super passive calling fish in mp and lp

one pro of 6-max, i can get it all in pre with KJs and be flipping
one con of 6-max, i can get it allin pre against KJs and be flipping

dumped a few stacks last day i played. had to happen eventually i guess. zzzzzzzzz

it's sunny
it's a good day to spend outside
fuck poker, i'm going fishing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpBl-m77rzY

a week in the gamble:

http://i57.tinypic.com/11t77eo.jpg

note to self, when nits rep the nuts they got the nuts

also

barely

thoughts on the first 6k hands of 6-max? (filtered to tables with between 4 and 6 players only)
anything stand out?
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[20:37] <daven> averaged 5hrs poker per month the last four months. Time to learn how to play cards again..
[20:39] <daven> does fr nlhe even run...

hmmm, i threw some feelers out the last couple of weeks...
at current glance the options appear to be:
a) postdoc with supersolid salary in a place i wouldn't mind spending a few years for...

raced a fun half marathon last weekend. Cut seven minutes off my old pb. Still pretty slow by hardcore runner standards, but good for a plodder and i'm stoked with how fit i'm feeling.

On the...

six weeks since i played any poker... And it's a sunday, so it's now two days since I wrote any code... I completed the data project i was brought in for far more quickly than the company had...

May 2014. A few hands at the start of the month, and then four weeks of zero poker. Interesting. And a net losing poker month too!
It's funny viewing poker from this new perspective, and looking...