A while back, after a particularly frustrating string of online Poker games, where it seemed like I was catching nothing but garbage cards I thought it would be great to be able to go back and look over a game, hand-by-hand, to see how often I caught strong hole cards and when I did catch cards, how often I won with them.

Technically I can already do this. Most of my online playing is done at Full Tilt Poker. One of the cool features of the site is a “Hand History” which records everything done on every hand: What your starting stack is, what your hole cards are, what cards are dealt, how much you bet, what the result is… It even records any online chatting between players. For example, a sample hand looks like this (my screen name is “cabbotage”):

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This was an interesting diagram I came across a while back of a squadron of WWII bombers flying in the “Group Javelin Down” formation.

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Below are the before and after versions of a map I did a while back as part of a project on neighborhood rehabilitation. The map covers a 5 x 8 block area in Oakland, and displays the 10 different land-use zones that exist in the neighborhood. The original map is roughly accurate down to the level of individual plots of land.

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These images, some of the greatest explanatory diagrams ever created, came from Bill Pearl’s Keys to the INNER Universe(his capitalization). I’ve scanned in a handful and uploaded them to this flickr gallery – but if I had enough time I could easily scan the entire book. There are an average of 3 of these diagrams per page, and the book is over 500 pages long. It is absolutely one of the greatest books I have ever found.

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In the last few years I’ve developed a huge interest in Poker, and after reading a number of poker theory books, I’ve started experimenting with alternate (and hopefully better) ways of illustrating common poker theory. In this case, the lists which rank the strength of starting hands in the game of Hold ‘Em.

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