Crash!

There's nothing quite like attempting data recovery on a crashed hard drive. I ordered a replacement hard drive for my wife's laptop - a 250 GB 7200 RPM Seagate drive. I got a great price on the thing (i.e. cost me less than an automatic card shuffler in Canada). So what am I doing posting right now?

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Zen, Podcasts, and Poker

I've been reading some no-limit hold'em books this week. When I sat down to play poker tonight, I decided to play some no-limit hold'em instead of my usual limit hold'em or Omaha Hi-Lo. I was hoping to put my recent reading of Phil Gordon's Little Blue Book and Sklansky/Miller's No-Limit Hold'em: Theory and Practice to use.

Thankfully, I'd also just finished reading Zen and The Art of Poker to help me head into tonight's session with a good attitude.

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Automatic Card Shufflers: Fact or Fiction?

I was planning on picking up Anthony Holden's Bigger Deal from the PokerStars store. I'm sitting at around 950 FPPs on Stars at the moment. It's pretty slow to earn FPPs playing the micro-stakes games but that's a price I'm happy to pay while I work on my game and my confidence. In any case, I've decided to work towards a different FPP store item: playing cards. I'm not sure if Stars still offers Copag playing cards. If they do, that's what I'll be ordering soon...I hope.

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