Women's Poker Talk

This review is not about poker—unusual for a poker site, I know! However, as some of you know, I had some huge issues with support at my last web host (who shall remain nameless!!!) and the new one I have now (after a couple of months of searching) is Site 5 and, so far, I couldn’t be happier.

I am not some big time user with a zillion accounts--just one with one web site (but will have more soon!), yet they have gone above and beyond to help me get my site up and working (which it is now---very smoothly, I might add) and have always responded to me quicker than any other hosting company I’ve used. I have never felt like the bottom of the totem pole with this company.

 On a technical level, the dashboard, called “Backstage,” is so incredibly user friendly! Everything is where it should be—well thought out and easy to find. The site supports most content management systems, as well as ruby on rails (which is not easy to find).

At any rate,  I strongly recommend them to any of you that may be thinking about moving your site to another host, or creating your first web site. They are very fairly priced and super easy to deal with!

Check them out: www.site5.com

Day in and day out, I play poker online. I watch bad beat after bad beat. Sometimes I am on the receiving end of those bad beats and sometimes I'm giving the bad beats. Playing poker online is very different from playing live. There are some distinct disadvantages to playing online, like the inability to actually see the other players; body language in poker (as in most areas of life) can be quite informative. Another big disadvantage, along those same lines, is that because players are not visible to one another, playing poorly is much easier because you really are not accountable to other players.

So you’ve just taken a horrible beat. You’ve shaken hands, left the table and now, the real test begins. How do you handle it from here? Are you sulking? Are you losing your mind over how this “always happens to me?” Are you certain, absolutely certain, that you did something to piss off the “poker gods? As long as all of that is short lived, then it’s not too harmful to your game. However, if you dwell on it, if you let it eat at you, then perhaps poker is not your game.