Hulu.com

I must be out of the loop, 'cause I just found out about this site and apparently it's been around since March. Anyway, it has a bunch of TV shows and even some movies that you can stream on it. Very clean layout, works well, has every episode of Arrested Development. I am never going to get any work done again ever.

I have been rocking the heads-up games lately on Pokerstars. Er, rather I would be rocking them if I didn't keep getting stacked in hands like these:

Poker Stars, $1/$2 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 2 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

Hero (SB): $375.25 (187.6 bb)
BB: $605.15 (302.6 bb)

Pre-Flop: Hero is SB with Qs Qh
Hero raises to $6, BB raises to $22, Hero raises to $72, BB raises to $210, Hero raises to $375.25 and is all-in, BB calls $165.25
Flop: ($750.50) 7h 5s Kh
Turn: ($750.50) 2d
River: ($750.50) 3h
Results: $750.50 pot ($0.50 rake)
BB showed Ah 4s (a straight, Ace to Five) and won $750 ($374.75 net)
Hero mucked Qs Qh (a pair of Queens) and lost (-$375.25 net)


Other than hands like that, and some random what-the-fuck-was-I-thinking hands (which obviously bother me way more than the bad beats, since it's my fault the money ain't shipping my way), HU has been fun, and I'm slowly but surely getting better at it. I wish I could say the same for PLO, which is just ugh. Still very much an omaha fish. Maybe someday I'll get it.

P.S. Another cool thing about hulu.com is they allow you to embed their videos on your own site. Here's my favorite episode of Arrested Development, "Pier Pressure":

Plz hold one time!

Also, is there a Darwin award category for business ideas? If so, I think this guy deserves a nomination. Quote from article:

Gioia would unwind by playing poker online in his hotel room at night. But that was very different from sitting at a table with other players and handling real cards.

For example, his three-of-a-kind and full-house hands frequently got topped.

“I even got beat with a straight flush by a higher straight flush — things I’d never seen at a real table,” Gioia said. ...

And so he started Gioia Systems LLC. His biggest challenge was how to differentiate his site from the fast-growing number of popular Internet poker sites.

“The answer was almost instantaneous: Play with a real deck of cards,” he said.

The funny thing is, people are so dumb that this might just be the perfect marketing angle for online poker. And think of the type of players this site would attract -- my god, I might have to sign up myself!

Time for Thanks

I just wanted to give a quick thanks to Barney Frank for existing and being so fucking cool.

His new bill, HR 6870, passed its committee vote today. Yeah, yeah, it's not much, but it's about the best news in online poker in the past two years. Baby steps.

More later.