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Pub poker
- Posted by Rob (#1) on April 20, 2007 17:10 CEST
Note to self: only play poker in the pub. Whenever I play it elsewhere, with patience and tactics, I lose money. Whenever I am totally hammered I seem to have the magic ability to go all-in on two-seven unsuited and still win the pot.
Okay, that's not entirely true (I play Hold'Em Limit on my mobile), but I turned another tenner into twenty-two last night with a streak of straights, which means there's four times the amount of money in my account now than what I've started with. I'll admit it's all peanuts and that I'm no big player, but still.. I'd rather make a small profit every week/month than pretend to be great while in reality all I do is make weekly deposits.
So yay to me and yay to drunken poker!
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Ed Hardy breaking through
- Posted by Rob (#1) on April 18, 2007 16:38 CEST
For a while now I have been telling my friends to forget about brands such as Lucky 13, Von Dutch, Vans and Converse. The next big thing is Don Ed Hardy.
And it looks like I've been absolutely right:
- All of a sudden Ed Hardy apparel is being worn by Dutch poker star Noah Boeken and Dutch TV celebrity Ruben Nicolai,
- Don Ed Hardy has updated their '07 shoe collection available for resellers. The pair of decks I wanted is no longer listed and many others have also been removed: could there be a production shortage?
- When I asked at Britain, which only started to carry their products recently, I found out the store has a hard time getting any new models from their importer. High demand perhaps?
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On-line and mobile poker
- Posted by Rob (#1) on March 15, 2007 15:04 CET
Can someone tell me why I always lose money when playing poker on-line on my laptop, while I make a (small but steady) profit when playing on my mobile with the PokerRoom GPRS client?
It's almost as if the pocket cards dealt include some sort of compensation for my network charges.. or for the fact that I look like a total dork when playing in the pub. But hey, on average I earn two free pints a night - not bet for a mediocre Texas Hold'Em player.
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Top paying keywords?
- Posted by Rob (#1) on August 10, 2006 09:28 CEST
I found a page which claims to list the 100 top paying keywords, at least for their (Search7) network delivery. And guess what? It's all pills and gambling: "tramadol online", "buy tramadol", "cheap tramadol", "buy phentermine online", "black jack card game", "buy soma", "online gambling", "online casino", "online poker", "texas holdem".. and so on, and so on.
The on-line advertising world seems to miss out on Nigerian scams, mortgages and webcam teens, but other than that I spot an interesting correlation with popular topics in e-mail spam. One might wonder if these are sometimes the same people, although I doubt it: spam appeals to some because it is dirt cheap, compensating marginal conversion rates with bulk numbers. CPC rates of over $6 however indicate the opposite: strict targetting, to obtain optimal conversion rates. Perhaps some people run hybrid campaigns, but to me there seems to be a completely different business attitude between the two marketing efforts.
Aside from the fact that spam sucks, of course.
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