Wednesday, November 12, 2008

So, Who Is the Mystery Player?

If anyone knew or had a guess who the graph I posted the other day belonged to they didn't post. Thanks to Jordan for expressing some interest.

As you can tell, the player is a machine and considered one of the best low-buy in SNG players out there. He used to blog and had some of the best SNG strategy posts on the planet. In the blogger universe he was known as the Poker Nerd and on Stars he is the_venetian.

Skol.

And get the new album from Cynic. Fifteen years after their legendary first album, Focus, the Florida progressive/technical death metal icons return with a second offering, Traced in Air. The strange, robotic vocals from the first album are gone or sent into the background and clean vocals dominate. But the jazz fusion feel remains and the band still produces a sound like no other. So, if you're up for something that's definitely metal, but not just the "same old," give it a (metaphorical) spin.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Guess the Player from the Graph

This might be fun or it might be useless. I was dinking around on Sharkscope looking at the graphs of various players and came across this seemingly inhuman upward slant over a large number of SNGs. Can we all stipulate that this is what we'd like our graph to look like?

Anyway, let's just see if anyone can guess the player who has amassed these stats. Here are a few clues. It's a person that many bloggers (the longer running ones at least) will know (by reputation, if not personally). These stats were amassed on Poker Stars almost exclusively (50K+ of them) in $20 and $30 SNGs.

Guess away!