Party Pooper

Playing Poker for a living is already a crappy enough venture. Where else can you work a forty hour week for a loss. I can handle that. But Party Poker today effectively gave us all a pay cut to the tune of ~20% by raising their maximum rake. I won't go into exact numbers, but that's a lot. This also has a huge effect on the entire player base. Anyone playing at or a little below a break-even winrate will now turn into a significant long-term loser, and the crappier players will go broke that much quicker. I suppose Party Poker never learned the old phrase, "You can skin a sheep only once, but sheer him many times." So the immediate effect is bad, the long-term effect will be even worse.

Apparently there was a horrible hurricane? My mother was appalled that I hadn't heard. I get less news now than I ever did on campus. Which wasn't much. I guess this means I'll need to start taking a daily paper of some sort, and ruminate over it with a hot cup of coffee in the morning. But then I'll need a sexy bathrobe and slippers to sport in front of the neighbors.

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I see where this is going. Staying informed is obviously the first step of a slippery slope towards adult responsibility. Sneaky bastards.