In the 2.5 weeks since Sept 22
- My net poker results are a loss of over $5,000.
- That's about 8,000 hands at mostly $10/20 and $15/30, with a BB/100 of (2.78).
- My VP$IP/PFR/AF in that stretch is 19.5/12.5/1.6.
- Won $ When Saw Flop is 36.59%
- Went to showdown 39%
- Won $ at SD 51%
- My computer started laughing at me when I lose hands.*
- A dear member of my family is facing a serious health issue.
- Water keeps dripping out of more and more places in my house. I assume it will cost a good deal of money to fix the leaks and damage.
- In a full-body stretch gone terribly awry, I somehow managed to hurt my neck playing poker today. I can't rotate it more than 20 degrees left or right.
- My penis fell off.*
The poker games I'm in for the most part seem very good. I usually have several opponents who are consistently making obvious mistakes. I am extremely frustrated with this prolonged losing streak, and not experienced enough to have confidence in either explanation for it (bad luck/bad play). Luckily, losing thousands of dollars rather than earning money in this period is inconsequentially to me financially, since I'm independently wealthy.*
To further complicate matters, today PartyPoker separated itself from Empire, Eurobet, and the other skins, so my rakeback arrangement is most likely screwed. So it seems pretty likely that I'll effectively be paying higher rake to continue playing with Party's vast aquarium of horrendous players, rather than playing in Empire's tougher games with reduced fees. I'm a little bit concerned that a frenzy of withdrawal requests from Empire has some chance of screwing me out of the money I have deposited there, but hopefully that won't happen.
Hard to tell for sure how this whole Party situation will play out. My theory is that with any major change comes a major opportunity. I just haven't figured out what the opportunity is quite yet.
* - denotes a probable fabrication.
2 comments:
Many household plumbing issues can be solved easily for $5.00 at your local Home Depot.
For example, a seemingly impossible to fix leaky sink (which was, unkown to me, dripping into the trash can and causing a horrendous smell) can be fixed with a minimally invasive replacement of a $4.37 pipe.
I don't know why Home Depot prices things like this - I assume it is to round out the prie when you add tax. But how does it affect profit when in TN they have over 9% sales tax? And it all sort of assumes you are buying each item individually.
So I was initially afraid to touch the plumbing. Electric I can handle (dimmer swithces, fuse boxes, ceiling fans), but plumbing frightened me due to the irreversible structural damage I could cause to my house if I fuck it up. But plumbing is no different than those old erector sets, Adspar. Find leak. Remove pipe. Bring old shit to Home Depot, or to Hechinger's or whatever you rednecks in MD have. Buy new pipe and new gaskets. Install.
hey chez,
I know little about the retail industry, so I could be completely wrong, but I dont think they price items so they are round numbers when tax is added. The main argument/reason is the one that you pointed out. While the price of pipe may be different in different geographic locations, it seems like too much effort to monitor these minor differences.
It is likely that the price is based on the unit of measure for the item (linear feet for pipe). They know the total cost and the expenses they have (labor, transporting, shelving, etc.) and I assume they are including all that, along with profit and rolling it up into the cheapest unit price possible. So they could jsut round it to round it, but they probably take pride in providing consumers with the cheapest pipe (per unit) around.
I dont really know, or care very much for that reason. Just that as an engineer I am constantly working on cost estimates (usually using Means as a reference) and your point got me thinking, which lead to me typing...
So basically I have no point.
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