http://www.spearmaster.com Spearmaster's Gambling Blog and Soap Box - UNDER CONSTRUCTION Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:30:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Once upon a time, I was a decent poker player - when I was in university, I used to head out to Gardena, California, where there were a few poker clubs such as the Normandie and the Horseshoe.  On other occasions I might hit the Commerce Club or the Bicycle ... http://www.spearmaster.com/2009/07/11/getting-my-ass-handed-to-me-at-poker/ A player made a post on Casinomeister.com which complained that he had been found to be in breach of the following term:"Before any withdrawals are processed, your play will be reviewed for any irregular playing patterns e.g. playing of equal, zero margin bets or hedge betting, placing single bets using ... http://www.spearmaster.com/2009/05/23/palace-group-refuse-to-pay-winnings/ If any of you have been following the news on Thailand, you may have noticed that the Prime Minister, Samak Sundaravej, has been relieved of his office and duties following a court verdict finding him in breach of the Constitution, which prevents ministers from being gainfully employed or earning revenue ... http://www.spearmaster.com/2008/09/09/tv-chef-forced-to-stop-moonlighting-as-prime-minister/ Today I got my daily Japan Times news summary- don't always read it, sometimes it ends up in the junk mail like it did today, but today for some reason I decided to have a look - and at the top was an interesting offer - "Secrets to Doing Business ... http://www.spearmaster.com/2008/08/23/japan-jump-start-or-false-start/ Yesterday was one of those days which started off very badly... I had been planning to go to the office as usual because there were a lot of things that I needed to take care of.  But suddenly I was told my son was "performing" at school and my wife ... http://www.spearmaster.com/2008/06/26/8888-golf-balls-and-the-hind-end-of-an-elephant/ Despite what one might think, providing security at the Olympics was actually quite simple, in that very few incidents occurred - I spent most of my time walking around and checking the various posts, and figuring out how many pizzas to order that night! One of the funnier things I encountered ... http://www.spearmaster.com/2008/06/18/spearmaster-at-the-1984-olympics-part-2/ Hi all - been a long time since I had any updates, and been quite busy and travelling quite a bit.  Today, I thought I'd share with you the story of how I made it to the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. At the time, I was studying (well ok, ... http://www.spearmaster.com/2008/06/14/spearmaster-at-the-1984-olympics/ After my last post about missing disk space, I thought everything had been fixed... only to watch it quickly creep back up to nearly full.One solution I discovered today was to restrict the amount of space reserved for system restore - open up a DOS (command) prompt with administrator privileges ... http://www.spearmaster.com/2008/05/14/where-did-all-my-disk-space-go-more-stuff/ For some time now, I've noticed that my notebook always seems to be quite full - I regularly move data onto an external hard drive, uninstall programs that I don't use, and yet I always seem to have less than 5% disk space left. What was most unusual was that every ... http://www.spearmaster.com/2008/05/02/where-did-all-my-disk-space-go/ ... takes place every year in Thailand from April 13th-15th during the Thai New Year, more commonly known as Songkran. Though the Guinness Book of World Records obviously hasn't certified this fact, an estimated 60 million people (well, the population of Thailand, give or take a few million, plus many foreigners) ... http://www.spearmaster.com/2008/04/14/the-worlds-largest-water-fight/