Whew, been awhile
I normally don’t go 13 days without a blog, but I guess it happens to everyone sometimes. Everyday I either didn’t have anything to blog about or I was just really busy and I didn’t have time to type anything out. Anyway…
Two milestones/anniversaries just passed.
First, thepokerdb. We launched it on the BLUFF site on March 25, 2007, so it’s been on that domain for slightly over a year. Looking back, I am pretty happy with how things turned out. The site is running pretty smoothly, we have a lot of good features that we never had on the old site (instant updates, hand history paster, more data breakdowns, good watchlists, etc). I know that lot of people bitched and moaned when we moved the site over and they were used to the old look, but I’m sure almost everyone would agree at this point that the BLUFF site is a massive improvement over what we had before.
I think that BLUFF is going to do a pretty good job with the db going forward. After we got the db launched in March of last year, the BLUFF development team basically focused 100% on the World Series of Poker website for the next 6 months or so. They didn’t really do anything, I was living in Las Vegas, etc, etc. That set the db back a little because it just wasn’t getting the attention that it needed to really grow and thrive. However, now that the WSOP site is up and running and the development team has a little more time on their hands, thepokerdb is a getting a lot more effort. We’ve made some serious strides in areas like SEO and website speed. There’s still a lot to do, but I’m confident that it will get done.
The second milestone actually dates back about 5 years. If you google my name, the second page has a result on it that is actually a paper of mine from a marketing class that I took in college. The professor liked the paper and asked me awhile ago if he could use it as an example. The paper itself is the usual drivel that everyone in college tends to produce. Of course you write it while thinking about how to get a keg through a narrow basement doorway or something like that. But, somehow, someway, the paper is surprisingly accurate! I actually managed to predict (ie, make up) Dell’s sales five years out. My prediction is only like 1% off or so compared to Dell’s actual reported sales figures. I haven’t bothered to add up all of the sales breakdown figures from the 10-Qs and last I checked the 10-K wasn’t out, but the latest reported revenue amount is 61.133 billion, pretty damn close to my $60 billion prediction/guess. I really don’t think anyone needs to actually read the paper because it was just to show that I understood some concepts that we’d gone over, but it’s pretty cool that it’s close! Maybe I should give all the nonsense in my old management and marketing classes a little more credit. 
I must admit I was getting a little bit worried when ten days had passed and still no blog entry. I think the Poker DB at Bluff is great so, once again, you done good!!!
TR23