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LOTRO goes F2P, and other news

Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) goes "Free to Play" on September 10, 2010. The trailer is here. This means that you have the option of playing for free, but there are catches. You can only go so far in Free to Play before you HAVE to start paying, because you have to pay to access content (quests, etc.) in areas beyond the "newbie" areas.

In other news, students are flooding back to campus this week. Today marked the "academic" portion of Windsor Welcome Week, and we are giving talks to first year students about academic mattters - following the course sequence, study habits, keeping a balance between partying, studying, and a part-time job. I'm sure the students would rather be ANYWHERE else but listening to all this boring stuff.

Update to my quest to turn $0 to a fortune playing internet poker - the $6.75 I won from that tournament back in May got whittled down to almost zero, and then I won five dollars and change in another tournament. That was on Full Tilt. On PokerStars, last week I won thirty cents in a freeroll. I also seem to be doing better in multi-level freerolls, actually getting to round two a lot more often.

Stay tuned for updates.

TTFN,

CRAPCRAPCRAP!!!

I remembered wrong AGAIN!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRISTEN!!!!!

Poker Odyssey

No, this isn't another one of those PokerStars contest entries. I have a started a quest to turn $0 into a fortune on Full Tilt Poker.

I started last night with a Tournament Dollar Freeroll. I came in sixth place out of 7500 players. I won $6.75 in Tournament dollars, which I can use to enter money tournaments.

Stay tuned.....

TTFN,

Port Elgin, and other stuff

Our Administrative Committee went to the CAW Family Education Centre in Port Elgin the week of April 12 for a one-week course on Collective Bargaining. It was a great learning experience and we met people from all over the country. I can't say any more - what happens in Port Elgin, stays in Port Elgin, right Heather and Shirley? Thanks to Jon, who stayed at my house with Bandit while I was away. Pictures are posted here .

Right after I cam back, Jon moved into his new apartment. It's in the same building, but four floors up. It's also MUCH bigger - two bedrooms, as opposed to the 1/2 bedroom bachelor apartment he had before. I just can't believe he packed so much stuff into that old place!

In other news, I've still been playing LOTRO and poker. I've been thinking of expanding my repertoire and watched these two short videos on YouTube:

• How to Play Pot Limit Omaha
• How to Play 7 Card Stud

Yeah, it's time for Part 3 and 4 of PokerStars SCOOP Blogger Promotion. How'd ya guess? Hehehe.

TTFN,

Yeah... it's been a while..

...since I've posted meaningful stuff.

On Friday, the Chair of our Campus Community Police's Union was suspended without, to my mind, the University having followed proper procedure in their Collective Agreement. On Monday morning, the various Unions representing bargaining units across campus set up a demonstration at the parking lot that a number executives, including the Director of Human Resources, park in. See Windsor Star story here. I don't know if it's more because the Chair and his boss didn't get along (understatement of the century), or if it's the Administration trying to "stir the pot" (again an understatement) in advance of upcoming Negotiations for new Collective Agreements. If it's the latter, I think all they've done is prove that the various bargaining units, when provoked, show incredible solidarity.

In related news, our Administrative Committee will be going up toe CAW Family Education Centre in Port Elgin for a one-week course in Collective Bargaining. We have some new Committee members, and not only will we get an opportunity to get some different perspectives on the rocess, but we'll get to "bond" as a Committee.

In other, unrelated news, I'm still trying to get into the SCOOP Poker Tournament. This is part two of five blog posts where we put in a phrase, and link it to their site. It's kinda fun, and I'm sliding them in, since most of my friends don't appreciate poker the way I do. I've been doing freerolls all over the place, in my quest to go to a major tournament free. It'll probably happen the same day I win the lottery. Not that I'm pessimistic, or anything, lol.

TTFN,

Wonder how long it will take for anyone to get this?

The Winter Olympics and...Poker?

WOOHOO!!! At the time I'm writng this, TEN of Canada's tweny-one medals are GOLD!!! That's two more than the US, who have thirty-four in total!!!

I've been couch-potatoing, watching as much of the coverage as I can. As I'm writing this, I am watching repeat coverage of Canada choking, and ending up with silver in women's curling. But then I remember that we now have TEN gold medals!!! With the possibility of at least four more to come that I can think of off the top of my head - Men's Pursuit in long-track speedskating, four-man bobsleigh, men's hockey, men's curling.

I've been playing a lot of Lord of the Rings Online, levelling up lower-end characters, and playing poker. PokerStars has been having freeroll tournaments for a couple of events, one being a new North American Poker Tour. The problem with freerolls is that the majority don't take them as seriously, and will go all-in with 2-5 off-suit, and then catch a straight. If you get caught up in that and call one of these doughheads, and call them with pocket aces, and get them cracked, it can get pretty frustrating. If you can make through the morons, to the top third of the field, then you get to actually play poker. Then you actually have to think, because the people who are left after the doughhead carnage can actually play, which is why playing poker is clearly a game of skill.

Yeah, yeah, that was really lame, wasn't it. PokerStars is having a new promotion for those people who played in the World Blogger Championsip of Online Poker, and we have to write posts, and put in their sentences in your post somewhere, and a link to PokerStars in the process. Guess which sentence was the mandatory one ? I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. There will be four more....mwah hahahaha.

TTFN,

Union Administrative Committee election

The elections for our Union Administrative Committee were held yesterday. I was nominated to serve as one of the seven Administrative Committee members (re-election for me). The top four vote-getters also serve on the Negotiations committee for our new Collective Agreement (The old one expires at the end of June).

Not only did I get re-elected, but this time I will be on the Negotiations committee. I am glad that I got re-elected, but I'm somewhat apprehensive about what is going to be a very hard round of bargaining, with the budget cuts across campus.

Stay tuned..

TTFN,

C

World Championship of Online Poker Event #3 NL Hold'em (again)

Best result yet....187 out of 1826!!! WOOT!

World Championship of Online Poker Event #2 Pot Limit Omaha

Out in 1123rd out of 1624 entrants.

My two pair got beat by another, higher two pair.

TTFN,

World Championship of Online Poker Event #1 No Limit Holdem

It started with 1740 players.... pretty unevertful for the most part. Tried to be patient, bided my time.

FInally down to about 300 chips, anf got pocket nines. Ace on the flop...went out in 1102nd.

Oh well... there' always the next event tomorrow!

TTFN,

Another New Template

We'll try this one for a while... see how it goes...

I'll be posting new Rabbit pics soon.

TTFN,

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers, so register on WBCOOP to play.

Registration code: 630530