U Club, I Hardly Know Thee, Yet My Faith Is Restored.

I heard a rumor last night that was “confirmed” this morning: The U Club open just a few weeks, was supposedly busted on Wednesday night.

This is third incarnation of the same club. It is professional and well-run. Meanwhile, clubs run by people who have no business sense at all, like the E and L clubs, run interrupted for a year or more. We all know there is no justice in poker itself, but there's also little justice in the world of quasi-illegal poker clubs in NYC.

I am so glad to learn, now later in the day, that this was a big false alarm — there's a little justice at least. Apparently, they were closed for some non-disclosed reason. They could be on a bigger radar screen, which may mean the days are numbered, but they are up and running at the moment.

Work and Poker Collide, Like Always

So often, it's hard to keep the computer geek world of my job and my poker life separate. Although it's more in my own head than usual, I was struck by a book title I saw. I stopped at the bookstore to browse for an actually good book on LDAP (jury still out on this one), and browsed past a book called Ship It! right there in the middle of the computer section!

I had completely forgotten this phrase was in somewhat common used in software. For my career, I have always worked on either internal projects, which never “ship” in that sense, or on Open Source and Free Software projects which effectively “constantly ship”. I am somewhat surprised that nick_marden, who has spent most of his career in the commercial software business, has never pointed out this congruency of jargon.