Poker is all about the money.  If you’re a serious poker player, you know that when there’s nothing on the line, the game breaks down.  Try playing a game with your friends for fake chips, and it’s meaningless.  You can go all-in at the drop of a hat without worry because you can always just get more chips or start another game.  In order for the game dynamic to work, you need to have some meaning to those chips, some value or worth.  So if you lose them, you really do lose something of value.  The easiest way to make them have some worth is to give them a dollar value and play for real money.  Recently, however, this has become impossible for people in the United States for legal reasons, and many people don’t want to risk real money.

So the question is, how do you build some sort of worth into the chips without using money?  The answer is gpokr.  You’re given a bankroll of $1500 that you can replenish every ten minutes if you run out.  The lower tables are pretty much a free-for-all with lots of people going all-in, exactly what you would expect when poker breaks down because chips are meaningless.  But if you manage to put together about $100,000 chips, you can get into the higher tables where the money actually means something, because nobody wants to be reset back to $0 and have to climb back through the lower tables again.

This website stands out from the moment you join, seeing that you’re immediately brought to a table to watch, right on the homepage.  Each month, everyone gets reset back to $0 to start over, and the top 100 players get recognized with a medal that appears next to them in the tables.  The best players have a whole row of them.

The lower tables can be a little tedious, but this is what creates value at the higher tables, which really has an excellent game.  Give it a try, it’s a lot of fun.

 www.gpokr.com

So on Saturday, I thought it would be a great idea to clean my bathroom.  Sounds normal right?  I thought so!  I get out my cleaning supplies and go about scrubbing my toilet and vanity and everything…leaving the shower for last.

I spray it down and start wiping up the cleaning fluid when I push in a tile…my thoughts were that cannot be good.  Needless to say, my shower wall has rotted out!  Now for normal bathrooms, this would not of been major…you just replace the one wall and be done with it.  Unfortunately, my condo’s bathroom was not remodeled since 1989 (they insulated the walls with newspaper…so I can curse at them with the exact date that the previous owners has screwed me) and all the walls have a horrid tiling from that era.

This requires a whole new makeover…unfortunately!  I do not really have the money to be sinking 2k on a new bathroom!  Thankfully my father-in-law is doing most of the work and my father is going to finish but seriously, take about bad timing.  I was 2 weeks away from putting my condo on the market. 

Oh well, maybe it is a sign saying that I should stay in the condo longer.  Maybe it was a sign in order to sell my condo sooner…All I know is that I am sleeping in my wife’s parents house until the bathroom thing is resolved…