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Party Poker Sound Mods

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I hate the Party Poker sounds. They stress me out. Full Tilt Poker’s client, on the other hand, has subtle, soothing sounds. Since it looks like we’ll still be able to play online for a little while yet, try replacing the Party sound files with the FTP sounds, or any other wav files of your choosing.

You will most likely find the FTP and Party sound files here:

C:\Program Files\Full Tilt Poker\Waves

C:\Program Files\PartyGaming\PartyPoker

Copy the files you want to use into the PartyPoker folder and rename them to correspond with the files you want to replace. I chose addchips.wav, cards_dealing.wav, chimes.wav, and reminder.wav, since these are the most obnoxious and frequently used sounds. Have fun!

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Individualized Email Addresses and Spam

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One of the main reasons for setting up my own domain was to give different websites their own email addresses. If Amazon got hacked or decided to sell their customer list, then I’d know because I’d suddenly start getting non-Amazon mail at amazon-personal-email@mydomain.com. At that point I could set up a mail filter on the server or in my inbox to delete, redirect, or bounce the messages so I’d never have to deal with them, and give the site a new email address, if I so desired.

So far, this scenario has only occurred with EB Games. Since I don’t normally shop there, I haven’t bothered to give them a new address.

Recently, however, both my Doyle’s Room and Poker Source Online addresses have been getting casino spam. This worries me. If they sold out my email address, then they’re bastards, but it’s not exactly risky for me. If they’ve been compromised…

Doyle’s Room may have been compromised in some fashion. After I got the first set of spam messages, I wrote to their customer service via the form on their website. Instead of submitting the message, I got redirected to some casino site I’d never heard of. At this point, I’m not sure what I should be doing next. I’ve changed my 3rd party money account password, but that’s about it.

What about you? Have you been getting some odd spam messages?

This is what I got at my PSO address:

Subject: “Good Luck, Emailusername!” from senders: Yvette, Coleen Ventura, Jeannie, Sherrie, Major, Laverne Courtney, Jolene, and Josiah.

This is what I got at my DR address:

  • Great games, Big Winnings, & thousands of players
  • * Play atno-cost to see how exciting and easy it is
  • * Up to $888 real money to gamble with
  • Great games, Big Winnings, & thousands of players
  • You’ve been selected to Play at the HI-ROLLER CASIN0!
  • Play where the world is Playing
  • Your promotional ID is IIZ02525***

Any of these look familiar?

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WSOP Main Event Final Table Thursday

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Tomorrow’s the final table of the main event of this year’s World Series of Poker. I’d hoped to have a small stake in one of the final table players this year, but that’s not how the cards were dealt. Still, while my horse was still in the running, I was hitting F5 and “Reload all tabs” on Pauly’s blog like one of those strung-out characters he’s always running around with. Except without anything contagious.

Go on over to the Tao of Poker to follow the final table action and get a running commentary on poker, the WSOP, and everything tangential.

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Super Ouch.

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Had a disastrous session at the middle limits that ate through over a third of the bankroll. A cursory glance at Poker Tracker shows me overplaying or overcalling with second-best hands in far too many hands. Poker Tracker also tells me I got runner-runner’d, 3-outered, and 5-outered enough times to account for the entire loss. The games were juiced up with a few maniacs and I took them head on for a crazy swinging time. At about 3AM I called it quits and started to wonder just what the hell I was playing for. I’ve decided to cash out a chunk of the roll so that I have something to point to and say, “There, that’s what I got spending my free time playing poker,” and banish myself to low-limit purgatory. Because at the end of it all, I’m playing for competitive mental fun, and fun doesn’t usually involve contemplating four figure losses.