Miscellaneous Update

Not much to report but I'll do it anyway.

1. It's 2304 as I type this and I hope to have my technical problems with the database solved sometime tomorrow (Sunday) morning.  To show you how complicated the instructions for this are I'm giving you a link.  The copy that I printed out fills four pages.

Keep in mind as you scan this (I don't expect anyone to actually read it) that many of the instructions refer me to other places or to a video.  I think that if every possible instruction, subinstruction and video referral was listed one a a time there would be about 200 hundred of them.  I'm hoping that I can solve this before I have to go that far.


2.  In poker, as with any profession, there is a lot that goes on behind the scenes.  As I have some new readers, I decided to give you an inside look at the kind of things that we discuss on the poker forums.  This discussion was about a pro who is working on designing a new online poker site.  Here are parts of that conversation:

Player 1:  Will doug polk advertise and promote the site?
Having him promoting the site is better than tenthousands of $$ on untargeted ads
He is by far the biggest influencer in the poker sphere. He reaches a ton of people. If he says the site is legit and the only hope for online poker because the rake is low enough, that will stick with the people much better compared to an ad RIO obviously paid for.

Player 2 (Me):  The average recreational player who goes to casinos on weekends won't know who Doug Polk is. A lot of serious players will. The problem with that is that serious players are analysts. They won't play on a site just because Doug Polk or Daniel Negreanu or any of the Phils recommends it. They would want details (rake, player pool size, tournament types, etc.) I would take a look at a site recommended by any of those players, but I'm not going to put down a big deposit without carefully checking it out.

Player 3:  Don't know but I guess within his audiance (sic) are quite a lot of fun players, who love poker, who'd like to be big but who are not exactly approaching everything with a stone cold pro attitude.

Me:  Stone cold pro attitude?  What a nice thing to say, thank you.