Poker Wannabe: 11/23/2004 - Phone Sex and other Random Musings

I was originally going to title this entry "Random Musings" but having all this potential job stuff going on has gotten me into the habit of trying to sell myself, so to speak, and a title of "Random Musings" just isn't that catchy at all, even if it is technically accurate. Therefore, I took what I thought was the most eye-catching topic I was going to cover--phone sex, duh--and threw it up there, figuring that more people would now read this entry than would have under my original title. Admit it! It worked. Glorious are the powers of advertising.

On to the musings.

I went in for my job interview today. It actually seems like it would be a fun place to work: no real dress code, flexible schedule, interesting people my own age. I hope I get the job.
I've continued to play online every day and have recently passed the $5K mark for the month. The most recent sites I've played at are DoylesRoom and PlanetPoker. DoylesRoom has a nice bonus of $135 but a confusing way of assigning the points necessary to collect the bonus. You have to get 13,500 action points that they somehow deduce from how much money you put into the pot. Much like quarterback rating, I don't really care how they do it, as long as the results seem to make sense. And at DoylesRoom, I was able to play for about five or six hours and hit the bonus, which makes sense. The action at the tables was great, as well, which isn't a surprise since DoylesRoom is a skin of Victor Chandler, a site that has a lot of international players. And as far as I can tell, all international poker players are certifiably insane.
PlanetPoker seems to have decently bad players, but the software is horrible. They advertise themselvesas being the very first online poker room, opening on January 1, 1998, and as far as I can tell they have not updated their software at all since then. You can only play two tables at a time, doing anything takes forever, the colors and graphics are just plain bad, and so the whole experience is downright depressing. And, they only offer a $50 bonus. And they allow players to make these super-annoying sound affects ad nauseum. I definitely cannot recommend PlanetPoker.
Speaking of DoylesRoom, after reaching the necessary action points needed for the bonus, I checked the cashier and waited and waited...and waited...and waited and after five whole minutes the bonus hadn't been credited yet. Damnit, I expect my free money faster! So I went to their online help guy to complain and he told me I should call their customer service line and provided me with a number. A number that was actually a phone sex line. Oops. (At least that's the story I'm sticking to when my roommate inquires about the phone bill.) Needless to say, when I finally got off the phone ten minutes later, I was quite upset. By that time, though, the bonus was credited and all was right with the world.
Man beats old woman to death with log: 22 years in jail. Man sells undercover cop a little bit of marijuana: 55 years in jail. Go US justice! "Pot seller Angelos was a 'purveyer of poison', [assistant US attorney Robert] Lund said." Wow, imagine if the "poison" that is marijuana could actually kill people; what would the government do then? Make it legal, I guess.

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