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Wow, that was hard. I got home about 30 minutes ago and I really can’t remember a time I’ve ever been this exhausted from exercise. My legs don’t want to function.

For those of you from the Philadelphia area (skip the following paragraph if you’re not familiar with the area):

We biked from the Main Line down to the Art Museum area (the start of the ride), then basically turned around and came right back out of the city, biking through the Penn Valley area out to Villanova. There were some ridiculous hills in that stretch. There was a rest stop at the Agnes Irwin school, which was about the halfway point of the ride. We then turned around and headed back towards Gladwyne, taking some roundabout route — with a lot more big hills — down to the Fayette street bridge in Conshohocken. We headed back in to Philly on the bike trail, which runs parallel to the Schuykill River all the way into Philly. It basically takes you through Manayunk, then through East Falls, which becomes Kelly Drive. Instead of heading back to the Art Museum, we crossed the Schuykill on the East Falls bridge, then headed towards Philly on West River Drive. We turned up towards Belmont Plateau by the Montgomery Drive exit of 76, then kinda went back through West Philly to the Main Line. By the time I was at 76, I was about ready to pass out. In all, it totaled 40-45 miles.

I don’t really want to even look at a bike right now, but I’m sure around mid-week I’ll want to go for another ride. Hopefully this ride will make future rides a bit easier because I was definitely punishing my legs out there.

Time to shower and go out to get some food, good luck to everyone in the Sunday tournaments today.

I posted a little while ago about a new bike that I bought. I’ve been doing some decent rides here and there, maxing out around 35 miles last weekend through some hilly areas outside of Philadelphia.

There’s an organized ride on Sunday which I’m going to be participating in. The webpage for it is located here. I’m opting to do what they describe as a “rigorous 32 mile loop” — plus I’m going to be biking about 7 miles in either direction to get to the start and from the finish. So I’m looking at around 45 miles total, which will be the longest ride this bike has been on yet.

Should be fun, I have to go to sleep now. Only a few hours until the ride.

It’s up on P5s:

Satellite article

It’s on the top of the homepage for now, but that will only last a day or two.

Well, I’m still on about 3478238 waitlists for various good law schools. But I’m in at Emory Law, so I’m going to focus on that for right now. After all, it seems unlikely that I’ll get into my waitlist schools as most of these lists consist of hundreds of people looking to squeeze into only a few spots.

Therefore, I am going down to Atlanta on Monday the 19th to take a look around the school and the surroundings. I’ll also be trying to figure out where I want to live. Luckily, I have bona-fide online poker superstar foshio (thepokerdb/$300K Masters Win/P5s) reserved as a tour guide. He’s from the Atlanta area and he was a student at Emory before taking time off to play poker, so he should be a good resource down there. Also, he lives very close to the campus and I’m going to be thinking very seriously about living in the same set of apartments/condos. I also hope to meet up with B.Purdy, an old-time PSCrewer, and maybe yellowsub (thepokerdb/hendon mob/P5s) if he’s around. It’s only going to be a day trip, but I plan on getting a lot done.

In other news, Full Tilt Poker (no affiliate link on there) has been added to thepokerdb in beta form. As of this blog entry, you can only view the tournament list, seen here. The software that we use to collect the tournaments is very new and we’ve only been running it for about a week. We still have less than 1000 tournaments in the FTP db. But it is up, running and it will continue to grow. Once it builds up a bit, we’ll integrate player search.

Also, Paradise Poker (still no affiliate link, am I an idiot?) is going to be up next. We have the software to collect Paradise results and I look forward to the commencement of collection in the coming days.

In terms of UB, I’m probably going to give up for now. It’s just such horrible software and so difficult to collect consistently. The frustrating part is that we have software that works fairly well. We invested a lot of time and money into it and I hate failing. I’ve been trying to get it to work since December and it’s just a losing effort. On top of that, UB has clearly gone into the toilet. If they ever look like they’re going to re-emerge, I might get working on our partially complete source code and try to get it working.

That’s it for now. I’m working on a piece stating why I think the concept of tournament satellites is stupid, so that should be up soon.

I just finished re-designing PSDollars.com v2.0. I have a lot left to do to get the site to where I want it to be, but this is a good upgrade from the previous version. It now has a web-based order form and an automatic rate calculator.

I ended up basing it off of “Example #1″ from this recent blog entry. And yes, I got the author’s permission to use some aspects of her work.

Anyway, lots of cool things to come in the future with PSDollars.com, so stay tuned.

I don’t know how new this is, but I just saw it.

Hilarious FTP commercial with Phil Ivey:

Commercial