Then again, online poker is so ri33ed. 2-Table SNG, still at first table:

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Gimme Shelter
Love in Vain
Country Honk
Live With Me
Let It Bleed
Midnight Rambler
You Got the Silver
Monkey Man
You Can’t Always Get What You Want

That is Rock and Roll Music, children.

Same tournament as yesterday. This is when we got down to three-handed. Details after the break:

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I’ll post an interesting poker hand after the jump so it won’t eat up a lot of front page space. But the question is this: was it a mistake to check it down ($-wise and theoretically, as it’s clear that UTG/Villian 2 wouldn’t have called in this particular hand), or is that just good sportsmanship in this particular situation?

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…this could be interesting. Tom Clancy’s Endgame is set to drop mid-October. It’s a war-strategy game, done Tom Clancy style. But that’s not what makes it interesting.

What makes it interesting is that it’s set up so that you can command your legions by voice command. On the XBox 360. And there’s online play, go figure.

Julie, plan to be in that new house by mid-October, or else I see a certain Herr Doktor camping out at the office late a few nights…

I know that we’ve talked about Pandora here before, but couldn’t remember if we’ve discussed last.fm. But if you’re at work and so lame that you have a hankering for a little band known as “Asia” or “Foreigner” or “The Alan Parsons Project” (which I think was a hovercraft), you can listen to it for free. Free! And who doesn’t love free? Other than people who want to get paid for their work, that is.

REO Speedwagon, here I come.

And since it’s Olympics time, this archived photo seemed titillatingly appropriate:

…I talked to him in the foyer for a couple of minutes. He has good SAT scores. I say we give him a bid: