http://www.jason.netrino.com/weblog This and that on this and that Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:26:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We’re a couple hours from the start of Day 4 of the 2007 $10,000 World Series of Poker Main Event, and Jason Heidema is still doing great. As I’ve been doing the past couple days, I’ll continue providing real-time updates of his progress (at least as real-time as he’ll ... http://www.jason.netrino.com/weblog/2007/07/13/wsop-main-event-day-4/ This is a continuation of the thread about Jason Heidema, my good friend who is getting ready to start Day 3 of the $10,000 World Series of Poker Main Event. Here’s how things currently stand (based on my calculations, so take it for what it’s worth): After completion of Day ... http://www.jason.netrino.com/weblog/2007/07/12/wsop-main-event-day-3/ Follow-up on Jason Heidema, a good friend of mine playing in the $10,000 WSOP Main Event… Jason started Day 2a (there are two second days — Day 2a and Day 2b) with around $72,000 in chips. Much like the first day, the second day turned out to be quite a ... http://www.jason.netrino.com/weblog/2007/07/10/wsop-main-event-day-2/ As mentioned previously, my good friend Jason is playing in this year’s $10,000 World Series of Poker Main Event. He played day 1 — along with 1500 other people — last Friday. After a roller-coaster first day — roller-coaster for both of us, as I was getting the updates every ... http://www.jason.netrino.com/weblog/2007/07/09/wsop-main-event-day-1/ I mentioned my weight-loss bet in a previous post, and the competition is now over… As I mentioned, a bit over two weeks ago, I still had 12 pounds to lose to hit my goal weight of 175 pounds. As of yesterday afternoon, I was down to 177.5, within two ... http://www.jason.netrino.com/weblog/2007/07/06/going-going-gone/ In my last post, I wrote about Expected Value and how it pertained to making decisions in poker. After writing that summary in response to a question on one of Microsoft’s email distribution lists, a friend of mine from Tellme sent a tremendously insightful follow-up geared towards more advanced ... http://www.jason.netrino.com/weblog/2007/06/30/poker-and-ev-part-ii/ I know that there are a lot of friends and aquaintances of mine who read this blog and are very interested in poker. And, as mentioned earlier, the Microsoft poker distribution list has some very good discussions about poker strategy and related topics. While I don’t want ... http://www.jason.netrino.com/weblog/2007/06/30/poker-and-ev/ One of the nice surprises about being back at Microsoft is the sheer number of poker enthusiasts at the company, and level of knowledge they possess. When I left back in 2004, there was no company-wide email distribution list specifically to discuss poker. Today, there are at least ... http://www.jason.netrino.com/weblog/2007/06/30/poker-players-at-microsoft/ A couple people have asked why I haven’t been playing nearly as many WSOP events this year as I have the past couple years. While there are a number of reasons (what most of my friends would consider “bad” excuses, like wanting to spend time with my girlfriend and ... http://www.jason.netrino.com/weblog/2007/06/27/you-gotta-lose-to-win/ After some good play and a cash on Saturday, I was excited to play again on Sunday. Unfortunately, the Venetian event on Saturday went late, so I didn’t get as much sleep as I had anticipated. Regardless, I was up at 10am on Sunday, and headed down to ... http://www.jason.netrino.com/weblog/2007/06/18/my-wsop-2007-part-iii/